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“That’s what the media loves to do, you guys love to ridicule me.” Kellie Leitch is cool with the way her “Screening for Canadian Values” ended up being seen by millions. “And so I’m delighted that now, unfiltered, the Canadian public can see what I’m talking about," she told CBC Radio Calgary. (Still, at this rate, there probably won't be a sequel.)
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Torstar taps a turnaround type. John Boynton, a former chief marketing officer at Rogers who more recently ran loyalty point data miners Aimia, is the new CEO and publisher of the Toronto Star. The newspaper’s own story about him can’t resist asking about Star Touch, but he says "it’s clear that smartphones are volumentrically the bigger medium right now." TD Bank has removed newspaper operations from its valuation of Torstar, fearing that job cuts won't match revenue declines—just as unionized Star
journalists approved a new contract.
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Peeking into Toronto’s first indoor toilet. High Park’s historic house, built in 1836 by architect John George Howard, chronicled excremental exploration:
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Steve Shuster dead at 64. The pioneering Yuk Yuk's stand-up comedian was also known for being the son of Frank Shuster, of Wayne and Shuster, and the brother of Rosie Shuster, who was married to Lorne Michaels and wrote for Saturday Night Live.
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