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Extra, Extra: Nuclear Annihilation, Inflatable Dolls, and Casinos
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A still from Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, a new ’80s-inspired video game from Ubisoft Montreal, opens with Toronto being annihilated by a nuclear bomb. (A screenshot is above.) Oh well. This isn’t the first time.
- And speaking of video games, it seems a local accountant managed to make one using nothing but the primary tool of his trade: Microsoft Excel.
- Oh look. Mayor Rob Ford made The Economist again: “But like a weighted inflatable doll that when punched springs back up, Mr. Ford is still standing.”
- NOW Magazine‘s Jonathan Goldsbie wrote a fascinating article about an anti-abortion group that has been staging protests outside Toronto high schools.
- And Richard Florida’s Martin Prosperity Institute has put together a heat map of casino opposition in Toronto. Unsurprisingly, the most intense casino hatred seems to be clustered in the east and west ends of downtown.
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