Extra, Extra: 7 GTA MPs Make Trudeau's Cabinet, Toronto Named Incredible Shopping City, Council Bans Hookah Smoking
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Extra, Extra: 7 GTA MPs Make Trudeau’s Cabinet, Toronto Named Incredible Shopping City, Council Bans Hookah Smoking

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  • Prime Minister Trudeau, who was sworn in this morning, has named his much anticipated cabinet members. Seven members are from Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area: MP Toronto Centre Bill Morneau (Minister of Finance), MP for Markham-Thornhill John McCallum (Minister of Immigration), MP for Toronto-St.Paul’s Carolyn Bennett (Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs), MP for Mississauga-Malton Navdeep Singh Bains (Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development), MP for University-Rosedale Chrystia Freeland (Minster of International Trade), MP for Markham-Stouffville Jane Philpott (Minister of Health) and MP for Etobicoke North Kristy Duncan (Minister of Science). Those who have been closely following the news of Trudeau’s gender-equal cabinet will note the four-three split of GTA women over, ensuring obligatory grumblings from “meritocracy” nay-sayers.

  • In another nod to the city’s livability and general coolness, GQ has named Toronto a city with “incredible shopping.” The magazine named October’s Very Own (or “the Drake store”), Klaxon Howl and Oak + Fort as places to check out in order to achieve that signature 6ix style. (As well as little-known indie boutique Roots).
  • If you’re a frequenter of the city’s hookah bars, you better enjoy them while they last. City Council voted today to ban hookah smoking in city businesses starting next spring. The motion passed based on recommendations from the city’s medical officer of health, who said that the practice has significant health risk and likened two hours spent in a hookah bar to the equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes.
  • From today’s edition of 12:36, Toronto’s new lunchtime tabloid newsletter:Porter still hopes to get those whisper jets. While Trudeau’s Liberals have said that they’ll block any attempt to fly jets out of Billy Bishop airport, Porter is proceeding with the review process anyway, in the hopes of ultimately winning the new government over.(Want more 12:36? Subscribe to it now.)

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