The downsized revival of Toronto city council. Mayor John Tory will preside over 25 councillors, including newcomers Brad Bradford, Cynthia Lai and Jennifer McKelvie—plus Mike Colle, returning to city hall after 23 years at Queen’s Park. Continuing to lurk on the outside will be this defeated tweeter:

Faith Goldy tied the knot in Prague. And the recent mayoral candidate shared some wedding pics on Instagram. Goldy’s new husband, Josef Viezner, came up in a recent story. She once hailed him as “the guy who makes my politics sound leftie.”

Canadian Museum of Immigration realizes good cop was probably a bad cop. An account of a married couple who emigrated from Austria in 1949 was submitted in 1999 to the website of the museum in Halifax, which decided to highlight the unedited story on social media. But then it was pointed out that the guy served alongside the Nazis. Put this in the Canadian Museum of Deleted Tweets:

Justin Trudeau’s tweet to Trevor Noah played right into the palms of conservative critics. The PM inadvertently created the impression that he was randomly giving $50 million away. (His tweet was actually meant to be an informal way to promote part of an existing $400-million global pledge to support girls’ education.) Reaction to the tactic forced the PMO to do some explaining.

CBC executive slams the National Post on the way out. The lack of clarity in the $595-milllion federal promise to support the news media inspired Tristin Hopper to take aim at a related issue: a public broadcaster preying upon private competitors. Just before leaving her job, CBC vice president Heather Conway posted a boilerplate response to all critics

Paradise Theatre sign will have to wait. After a dozen dark years for the cinema at Bloor and Dovercourt, neighbours were excited to see its big neon vertical roll up to the door on Saturday. But the actual installation was postponed to a different day.

Sweet Jesus now shares an owner with Yogen Früz. Boycotts over a blasphemous name surely sweetened prospects for the ice cream chain, which has been acquired by International Franchising, the company behind the frozen side of mall food courts



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