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Torontoist Week In Review: August 10-14
A lot happens in the course of a workweek. Here’s a look back at the top stories from the past five days that you might have missed, or might care to revisit.
Photo by Ilona from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
On his last visit to the city, Stephen Harper touted plans to build the country’s first national urban park, located in northeast Scarborough. But Brad Duguid, MPP for Scarborough Centre, is saying that the provincial government is unwilling to move forward with the park’s plans because of concerns over environmental protections.
From the article:
Harper announced that the Government of Canada will contribute an additional 21 square kilometres of land to Rouge National Urban Park, which increases the size of the park by approximately one third. But that’s only if the provincial and federal governments can sort a dispute over environmental protections, and the park ever gets built.
Don’t mess with the guy in the frog suit. Still from Yakuza Apocalypse, courtesy of TIFF.
This year’s TIFF Midnight Madness sees works from Jeremy Saulnier, Takahi Miike, Joe Begos, and Davy Force and Nick DenBoer, whose madcap rearranging of The Shining called The Chickening is not to be missed.
From the article:
Fans of thrills, chills and martial arts skills refreshed their Twitter feeds with great anticipation this morning as the Toronto International Film Festival revealed its Midnight Madness slate. Keeping to tradition, series curator Colin Geddes mercilessly teased MM fans last night with @mmadnesstiff, offering cryptic clues and carefully cropped stills, prompting a global guessing game on what the chosen films would be.
David Price’s debut with the Jays. By ash226, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
With the Blue Jays in first place, there’s no time like the present. Here’s some Baseball Life Advice for the newbie Toronto ball fan.
From the article:
The reasonable among us lifelong fans know that baseball is church, and like any religion it makes good sense to recruit as many devotees as possible. There’s no real set of rules to being a ball fan other than simply caring (and maybe being a masochist), but the more knowledge you have of the game and its players the more enjoyment can be found.
We talked to medal-winning Parapan athletes Morgan Bird, James Theroux, and Sarah Girard on what it takes to become a para-athlete and how to have fun in between training.
From the article:
In a room filled with excited energy, Sarah Girard’s is by far the most infectious. “It was just incredible,” gushes Girard about her bronze medal win. “This is my very first Parapan Am, and two weeks ago I was only seventh! Now I’m third, and I just won a medal, and I’m really, really happy.
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“As a wizard, you can’t actually touch the hipsters,” says de Castro. “Because if any of the can collectors actually got too aggressive with any of the hipsters … that’s socially not allowed.”