13 Comments June 10, 2013 at 5:45 pm

Extra, Extra: Hadfield Retires, Ghomeshi (Apparently) Strikes Out, and “Nurdles” Proliferate

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

A photo of Toronto at night, taken by Chris Hadfield from the International Space Station on January 19.

Chris Hadfield is packing up his moustache and retiring from the Canadian Space Agency. Thanks for the memories.

This humiliating blind item about a woman’s stomach-churning date with “a presumed-gay Canadian C-list celebrity” who “has a successful radio show” and is “brown” isn’t too hard to figure out, is it? Could Jian Ghomeshi really be this awkward around women? His whole job is to have good conversations with people. [Via David Topping]
In happier celebrity news, you saw that John Malkovich helped save a tourist’s life in front of the King Edward Hotel over the weekend, right? Good.
Word of the day: “nurdle.”
Ripped from the pages of Franz Kafka’s private notebook: a bunch of people got on a plane to New York at Pearson Airport after being pre-cleared at U.S. customs. Their flight was cancelled before takeoff. Guess what happened next?