Extra, Extra: Mind the Gap, Elementary School Stages Walkout, and the Magna Carta Comes to Toronto

By Sarah Duong

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

Photo by Wyliepoon from the Torontoist Flickr Pool

• If you’re in need of durable, comfortable clothes, you’d better hurry: Gap Inc. announced that it will shut a quarter of its North American Gap specialty stores over the next few years, with 140 slated for closure this year. There is no word yet on which Toronto stores will close.
• Students at a North Toronto public school have staged a walkout in protest of the province-wide work-to-rule action affecting graded report cards. Grade 7 and 8 students took to the front of Hodgson Senior Public School holding placards demanding marked grades, making the middle school the second in the city to stage a walkout over the debacle.
• The British document thought by many historians to be the foundation of modern democracy is coming to Toronto. That’s right: the 800-year-old Magna Carta (or Carter if you’re Jay-Z) will be on display at Fort York Centre from Oct. 4 to Nov. 7 for those itching to fulfill their inner history-phile.

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