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Some weekend talk topics that aren’t basketball

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May 31, 2019
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The final day of production at the 88-year-old Campbell Soup Company plant in Etobicoke—a closure announced last year in tandem with a new HQ in Mississauga—was marked by a Reddit posting of its last Campbell’s can.


In the thick of World War 5G

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Huawei Canada @Huawei_Canada
"If our government determines that the technology is sound, then we need to boldly say that to the United States." Former Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day takes a firm stance on Canada's relationship with #Huawei:
bit.lyIgnore Huawei fallout: Stockwell DayKeep looking to China despite diplomatic dust-up, ex-minister tells Canadian businesses
5:16 PM ∙ May 30, 2019
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China is warning Canada of “consequences” if it helps the U.S. with the Huawei case. But the father of detained CFO Meng Wanzhou has faith that she’ll study hard for a PhD in jail.


“Make Canada Great Again” hats have brought on a lawsuit. Rebel Media is the owner of the trademark that it claims was violated by Hudson’s Bay—which hastily removed MCGA merchandise last October.


Paying a price to redeem Eglinton East

Given how it was voted Canada’s Worst Road, the street addled by transit construction needs all of the influencer help it can get—which may explain advertising like this on social media:


Leon Redbone dead at 69. Dickran Gobalian was the birth name of the enigmatic musician, who launched his career in Yorkville coffeehouses. Meeting Bob Dylan at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1972 put Redbone on the road to the Mr. Belvedere theme song.


Finally, newsletter upfronts in review

Substack is the platform hosting four new independent newsletters, which debuted this week with a boost from 12:36. You can read the first edition of each one before signing up:

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Retrontario 📺🇨🇦 @retrontario
Get your local retro fix in one place: sign up for our weekly @retrontario newsletter hot off the presses right here retrontario.substack.com 📺📼🇨🇦🔥
retrontario.substack.comRetrontarioPreserving pop culture of the ’70s, ‘80s and ’90s (via Toronto, Ontario)
5:11 PM ∙ May 27, 2019
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unknown trouble @JodiesJumpsuit
The first issue of the Jumpstack is here, in which I: -slander Benjamin Franklin -incite inter-generational war -remind you of the shortest winner of the Rookie of the Year Award -make fun of Geminis Read and sign up for more next week here:
jump.substack.comThe Jumpstacka smoke break with your work wife: weekly amusement from the Toronto Twitter personality known as @JodiesJumpsuit
8:17 PM ∙ May 28, 2019
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Alheli Picazo @a_picazo
For those into the newsletter thing, I've started one which will publish each Wednesday. It's a work in progress, but honest feedback is certainly welcome. The first edition will go out shortly, and you can find it (and subscribe) here:
msinformation.substack.comms.infoNotes on the scandals (and other things)
7:28 PM ∙ May 29, 2019
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Ken Whyte @KenWhyte3
here's the first edition of the Sutherland House newsletter on the World of Non-Fiction -- be sure to subscribe!
shush.substack.comTrump, more Trump, and P.T. BarnumI took this photo at an Amazon bricks-and-mortar outlet in Los Angeles last Christmas. You’ll notice a number of Trump and Trump-related books on the clearance shelf. No wonder. By my rough count, there have already been more than a hundred. Yet, they keep coming, with these titles due in June:
2:55 AM ∙ May 31, 2019

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