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Extra, Extra: Food Truck Freedom Day, Cartilage Farms, and Toronto Police Look for Spiderman
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- Happy “Food Truck Freedom Day”! What, you didn’t get the memo? Mayor John Tory and a merry throng of city councillors held a little food truck lunch event today at Nathan Phillips Square in honour of the city’s very slightly loosened new food truck regulations. To paraphrase another famous political figurehead: “Let them eat roti!”
- Local researchers have figured out how to generate cartilage from human stem cells, which is slightly gross-sounding but also a major breakthrough for patients with osteoarthritis. A team of researchers at the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine published their cartilage-growing findings in the journal, Nature Biotechnology, released yesterday.
- In other news, Toronto Police are on the lookout for Spiderman. Yes, you read that right. A man wearing a Spiderman mask is alleged to have attacked a 16-year-old boy near Kensington Market last night with a skateboard and remains on the loose.
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