4 Comments April 4, 2013 at 5:30 pm

Extra, Extra: Roger Ebert, Doug Ford, and a Football Coach

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

Roger Ebert hosts a “Twitter Showdown” at TIFF 2010.

You’ve probably already heard that Roger Ebert died today. He was a cherished visitor to Toronto during each year’s film festival (the photo above was taken during a festival-related event in 2010), and he will doubtless be missed as much here as anywhere else.

Yesterday we found out that Doug Ford will definitely run for a seat at Queen’s Park, provided Kathleen Wynne calls an election sometime soon. Over at The Grid, Edward Keenan points out the obvious (but in a more eloquent way than most of us could manage): “There are worse propositions for the City of Toronto than seeing the mayor’s older brother leave City Hall and take a seat on the Queen’s Park opposition backbench.”
Meanwhile, in the mayor’s office, it appears Rob Ford has hired a football coach to act as his “director of operations and logistics.” And not just a football coach, but his high school football coach. Nobody will say what the job actually entails. On its face, this seems like an odd use of taxpayer money. Sometimes we wish we could teleport 2009 Rob Ford into the present so he could be furious at himself.
Also, according to Toronto Life, C5, the restaurant on the top floor of the Royal Ontario Museum crystal, is closing, apparently at least in part because it was expensive and unpopular.