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The teen queen of tennis clickbait

Aug 12, 2019
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“I watched you your whole career. You’re a f--king beast.” Serena Williams had to retire from the Rogers Cup with an injury, and her opponent Bianca Andreescu came over to comfort her. Respect 🙏 (via @Sportsnet) k
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August 11th 2019

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Bianca Andreescu’s trail of headlines was well served by an obscenity. She previously refrained from using the full F-word, and was called “the biggest drama queen ever” during another stop along her way to the top.


Club Z’s revival is now dying

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Say goodbye to your childhood. 😭
zpr.io/gB9St #canada #canadian #newsThe Last Two Zellers In Canada Are Closing Their Doors And Canadians Are HeartbrokenThe nostalgia will be gone!zpr.io

August 10th 2019

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Hudson’s Bay revived the Zellers brand for clearance centres after much of the original chain’s real estate was sold to Target Canada. But the initiative is now winding down in Ottawa and Toronto. (Presumably, we’ll still be seeing the second coming of BiWay.)


It’s time to start fighting over election stock photos. Liberal MP Marc Miller aspired to shade a Conservative tweet for using iStock’s “First Nations Canadian Woman” to represent rural areas. Even if the photo isn’t an actual First Nations woman, CPC candidate Cyara Bird assured Miller that she definitely is one.


Trumping all tales of Trudeau

An excerpt from Aaron Wherry’s new book, Promise and Peril, focuses on how the PM learned to navigate dealing with POTUS. But that couldn’t beat the weirdness of this:

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SCOOP: Trump has sent highly unusual, Sharpie-written notes to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at least twice. One missive was so odd, the Canadian ambassador double-checked with the White House to be sure it wasn't a prank.
Inside Trump’s strange pen-pal diplomacy with Justin TrudeauTrump has sent highly unusual, Sharpie-written notes to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at least twice, sources confirmed to Axios.axios.com

August 11th 2019

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Paul Grace dead at 63. As one third of the Boomtang Boys, Grace’s background as a club DJ and staffer at Toronto’s Starsound Records contributed to Canadian hit radio fodder, which included “The Hampsterdance Song.”


Finally, a personal finance ratio

Lissette Calveiro, an influencer marketing director from New York, was used as a case study in a Global News attempt to link how she went into debt to develop that career to financial products being peddled in Canada to rescue others from a similarly vain fate:

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According to a recent survey, Canadian millennials struggle with debt largely because they’re trying to keep up an Instagram-worthy lifestyle.
Instagram influencer racked up $10K in debt for online fame, and Canadians aren’t immuneLissette Calveiro was spending to build up followers on Instagram. What she didn’t realize was how much credit card debt she built up along the way.trib.al

August 10th 2019

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