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Toronto’s ultimate rock is a boulder on Bloor

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Toronto’s ultimate rock is a boulder on Bloor

It survived way longer than Kinko’s

Jul 26, 2019
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Estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.5 billion years old a 2000 kg granite boulder has been unearthed at Major & Bloor streets during the construction of a new BIA sponsored parkette. (1/2)
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8:05 PM ∙ Jul 24, 2019
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How this rock got there is something of a mystery, but an educated guess is that it travelled to the Annex from Georgian Bay around 14,000 years ago, and could’ve been frozen inside an iceberg that settled at the bottom of Lake Iroquois before it melted.


A picnic against hanging glass

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I want to thank all of the great people I have been speakkng with in Ottawa about this. Please come to Major’s Hill Park Safurday 6:30pm to Sunset and bring your picnic baskets! #savethechateaulaurier
ottawacitizen.comTom Green hosting picnic Saturday to #SaveTheChateauLaurierWhen comedian Tom Green was a teen in Ottawa, he’d skateboard back from nights in Hull and take in the capital view of the Château Laurier and Parliament Hill against the Ottawa River. “Even growin…
11:43 PM ∙ Jul 25, 2019
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Further boosted by fellow former Ottawa comedian Norm Macdonald, efforts by Tom Green to prevent a modern-style addition to Château Laurier will get more physical.


The cannabis company that fired its CEO for illegal growing. Health Canada’s probe of unlicensed cultivation at CannTrust has led to the termination of Peter Aceto, who was seen as bringing the company legitimacy when he took the job after running Tangerine Bank.


A post-Trudeau running game

Jody Wilson-Raybould is readying a book, Where I Stand, to be published as she runs for re-election as an independent MP. Her ex-Liberal colleague, Jane Philpott, opened a campaign office with branding aimed at transcending the concept of a party leader:

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July 26, 2019

Your whole life has consisted of watching Toronto bid for the Olympics. After failing to get the Olympic Games of 1996, the city made the shortlist for 2008 and gave real contemplation to 2024—whose social media focus has now changed to @TO2032Bid.


Finally, a new local throat in D.C.

Edward Keenan is the next U.S. correspondent for the Toronto Star, replacing Daniel Dale, who took his fact-checking act to CNN. While the memo about Dale’s exit was leaked on Twitter, the job shift for Keenan was all his to explain:

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Edward Keenan @thekeenanwire
But if you listen to your favourite song again and again and again, eventually you stop hearing a lot of the things that made it so interesting to you and made you love it so much. A break and some variety can be good. I’m feeling that way, a bit, about this change.
8:15 PM ∙ Jul 25, 2019
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