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Extra, Extra: Bacon Delivered to Your Door, the Return of the Heritage Minute, and Rob Ford Sounds Off on Councillor Expenses
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- Combining the concept of a fruit-of-the-month club with the sensibilities of Ron Swanson, the Bacon Shoppe will deliver one pound of premium pig product to your door on a monthly, bi-weekly, or for the truly addicted, weekly basis. The service is restricted to what the company calls its “Bacon Drop Zone,” which covers a relatively small portion of the city, but for the lucky ones to whom delivery is available, copious amounts of crispy, streaky goodness, and eventual heart failure, are but a few clicks away.
- “I smell burnt toast”—if those words gave you a rush of childhood nostalgia without even having to click the link, you may be excited to learn that a new Heritage Minute has been produced. This one is about the Winnipeg Falcons, the hockey team that represented Canada in the 1920 Summer Olympics (yes, summer) and won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in the sport.
- Mayor Rob Ford, who come December will reclaim his former title of Councillor Rob Ford, is griping about councillor expenses once again. Ford, who no doubt relishes the prospect of another four years of 44–1 votes at City Hall, released a statement today wherein he made the usual complaints about councillors spending lavishly and disrespecting taxpayers: “This week the third quarter expense filings for City Councillors were made public. Like many, I was very disappointed by what I saw.” We’re not sure what he saw—but what he apparently didn’t see was that, according to the National Post, “city councillors were given about $28,000 in constituency services and office expenses this year and all of them were under the limit.”