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From concrete blocks to weed lottery win

The extremely strange case of CAFE

Aug 22, 2019
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Twitter avatar for @Samantha_KBSamantha Beattie @Samantha_KB
I've confirmed that it is CAFE on Harbord St. that won the cannabis lottery
Toronto’s Infamous Illegal Pot Shop Wins Ontario Cannabis LotteryThe city has been trying to shut down CAFE’s four locations all summer.huffingtonpost.ca

August 21st 2019

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The lottery for more licences to open weed stores in Ontario included a win for a numbered company whose Toronto address, 104 Harbord Street, is currently one of four illegal locations of Cannabis and Fine Edibles. While applicant Rob Heydon claims “no connection,” CAFE itself says that it was selected at this stage of the licensing process.


Sticker shock has worn off

Twitter avatar for @robertbenzieRobert Benzie @robertbenzie
NEW: Premier Doug Ford is retreating from fining gas stations up to $10K a day for not posting "the federal carbon tax will cost you" stickers, the @TorontoStar has learned. Scofflaws to get warnings instead of cash penalties. TSSA to enforce. #onpoli
Ontario won’t fine gas stations over pump stickers | The StarPremier Doug Ford is abandoning plans to punish gas station owners with fines of up to $10,000 a day for not posting stickers targeting federal carbon pricing, the Star has learned.thestar.com

August 21st 2019

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The Canadian Civil Liberties Association still plans to challenge the province’s anti-carbon-tax stickers in court, even though the threat of a financial penalty for not displaying them was lifted. Now the focus has shifted to the Ontario government asking a court to keep letters to cabinet ministers about their mandates away from the view of CBC News.


Lisa Raitt lost her bid to hear Justin Trudeau book tapes. The deputy Conservative leader, backed by MP colleague Peter Kent, believed that an interview the PM did about the SNC-Lavalin affair for Aaron Wherry’s book Promise and Peril merited an airing at the ethics committee. Raitt’s motion failed, then Liberals voted further probing down.


The continued de-Crystaling

Daniel Libeskind’s addition to the Royal Ontario Museum officially entered the next phase towards its potential demolition with the opening of a new terrace and plaza on Bloor Street—which follows cancelling the Crystal as the ROM’s primary entrance:

Twitter avatar for @alexbozikovicAlex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic
The original @ROMtoronto (Darling & Pearson, 1914) hasn’t looked this good for ages. And now you can see it up close
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August 21st 2019

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“Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music.” A New York Times Magazine feature begins with Young ranting to writer David Samuels about how digital music is harming our brains. But it takes a turn after Samuels tells Young about his 5-year-old son’s cognitive struggles, which get alleviated through Mozart music therapy at Toronto’s Listening Centre.


Finally, some “April in Memphis”

Bruce Cockburn releases an all-instrumental album, Crowing Ignites, on September 20. It’s preceded by an animated video by Toronto artist Kurt Swinghammer. The track was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., as Cockburn reflected upon his assassination:

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