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Extra, Extra: Awarding the Jane Jacobs Prize, a Family Shelter’s Uncertain Future, and Giant Pandas
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- Graeme Stewart and Sabina Ali are two Torontonians “on the forefront of a revolution that’s transforming Toronto’s now aging suburban high-rise clusters into livable communities that work”—which is why they’ve just been announced as the winners of the 2014 Jane Jacobs Prize (Spacing explains why, despite the fact that Jacobs was not fond of high-rise developments, she would have have approved of the winners’ methods and their aims).
- Because diet doctor Stanley Bernstein and some of his Bridle Path–area neighbours are involved in a legal dispute about real-estate investments, the Red Door Family Shelter in South Riverdale, in operation now for over 30 years, might have to close its doors.
- At one point, we remember hearing that pandas, much like hippos, are actually giant and vicious killing machines; we did no additional research into this claim, because sometimes it is nice to look at a panda and think “that is a magnificent and adorable creature, and I am glad it has been living at the Toronto Zoo for a year now” without having to complicate matters with informed thoughts about teeth and claws.
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