2 Comments May 8, 2013 at 4:30 pm

Extra, Extra: Zodiac Heads, National Surveys, and Competition for Netflix

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Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads in New York City, in 2011. Photo courtesy of the Zodiac Heads tour’s official website.

City council gave its approval today, so it’s official: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, a sculpture (pictured above) by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, will be coming to the reflecting pool in Nathan Phillips Square. The heads are supposed to be installed on June 10 and removed on October 27. The Art Gallery of Ontario will, not coincidentally, be opening an Ai Weiwei exhibition on August 17.

The new National Household Survey confirms what many of us already suspected: Toronto is increasingly a city of immigrants, situated in a country of immigrants. (Granted, a long-form census might have told us more.)
If Rogers develops its own online movie-streaming service, as it apparently plans to do, will it actually try to compete with Netflix’s (low, in our opinion) $7.99-per-month fee, or will the service somehow end up being as expensive as everything else offered by every Canadian telecom?