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Back to basketball in a packed arena

While empty chairs stand elsewhere

Oct 21, 2021
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The Toronto Raptors were so bad in the season opener that Drake left early bit.ly/3C5ED78 #Toronto #TorontoRaptors #Raptors #WeTheNorth #NBA #Drake
bit.lyThe Toronto Raptors were so bad in the season opener that Drake left earlyThe Toronto Raptors finally got their long-awaited homecoming celebration last night during the first regular-season game at the Scotiabank Arena i...
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The first regular-season Toronto Raptors home game in 600 days was a 98–83 loss to the Washington Wizards before a capacity crowd made possible by the recent lifting of restrictions. But restaurants in Ontario are still waiting for their turn to bring normal seating back, while music venues reliant upon standing audiences remain in the dark.


Scenes from a real Succession

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The CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. says he has “strong unequivocal support” from the board of directors as the telecom company’s boardroom feud emerged during a quarterly earnings call.
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3:57 PM ∙ Oct 21, 2021

Rogers Communications is setting up a three-person committee to manage interactions between Edward Rogers and CEO Joe Natale. It’s an attempt to heal the rift that’s pit the son of Ted Rogers against his mother and sisters. Company director John Tory took a break from being Toronto’s mayor to mediate on Wednesday.


A former University of Toronto provost is a central character in the Al Jazeera podcast series about academic sexual misconduct. Degrees of Abuse kicked off with U of T vice-president Alexandra Gillespie adding to a half-dozen allegations against Andy Orchard, who spent 2000 to 2013 as a professor at Trinity College.


Kirk is back down to Earth

“I hope I never recover from this,” was William Shatner’s reaction to his Blue Origin space capsule experience, but he’s quickly returned to the business of being William Shatner. The latest was an interview in which he talked about being a face of horror:

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William Shatner says he was in disbelief the first time he saw #Halloween villain Michael Myers, a serial killer who wears a modified mask of Shatner’s “Star Trek” character Captain Kirk: “I thought, ‘Is that a joke? Are they kidding?’” bit.ly/2Zdoiiz
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The book by the Vice Media editor currently serving nine years in prison for recruiting drug mules. Bad Trips by Slava Pastuk will be published in April—an attempt by the hipster cocaine ring handler from Toronto to tell his side of the story. Pastuk was jailed for playing a role in a plot he was found not to have masterminded.


Finally, peak 1974 variety store

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