Extra, Extra: 1,000 Siblings and No Money

By Steve Kupferman

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

We told this raccoon about the guy with 1000 siblings, and this is the face he made. Totally not staged! Photo by {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_kevino/6917029020/in/[email protected]/"}Mr Kevino{/a}, from the {a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/torontoist/"}Torontoist Flickr Pool{/a}.

• Today in ick: A Toronto filmmaker believes that he may be one of 1,000 children fathered by a single prolific sperm donor who ran a fertility clinic in England.
• More details of the CBC’s coming budget apocalypse are starting to emerge. Word began circulating on Twitter this afternoon that, because of cuts to the broadcaster’s federal subsidy, it will be canceling Dispatches, a Radio One show that specializes in documentary-style international reporting. [Update, April 10, 2012, 4:38 PM: And same for Connect.]
• Meanwhile, a study has found that most Canadians would be willing to pay higher taxes to avoid this type of thing.
• Fans are not reacting well to the apology by the owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs for last season’s poor performance by the team.

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