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Extra, Extra: Summer Pools, Keys to the City, and Glass Rain
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Pool hoppers break into a public pool at Christie Pits, during summer 2011.
- Now that the weather is once again almost unbearably hot, and City pools are open, and summer has officially begun, let us direct your attention to an old article of ours about a night-time activity you may or may not have considered (but which we are legally obligated to say that we in no way encourage): pool hopping.
- Rob Ford is giving the key to the city to McDonald’s Canada founder George Cohon today. Cohon will join a list of past recipients that includes such luminaries as the Rolling Stones and BOTH Mickeys: Rooney, and Mouse.
- You know what’s refreshing on a hot summer’s day? A light rain. You know what’s not refreshing? A light rain of balcony glass. Thankfully, after a spate of intermittent glass showers from downtown high-rises, the province looks poised to pass new building code rules that would solve the problem—at least, on new construction.
- And for some people, a standard kite just isn’t kite enough.
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