Plus, city councillor Josh Matlow sounds off on overflowing trash bins
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When Hooked co-owner Kristin Donovan opened a Kensington Market outpost of her local fish chain in 2012, she was prepared to be there for the long haul. The market was the epitome of the downtown grocery experience and an integral part of the city. Thirteen years later, Donovan is closing up shop. As it turns out, not all is well on Augusta Avenue—or any of the market’s corridors. Businesses are closing, customers are leaving and the neighbourhood’s famed Pedestrian Sundays street festival is on pause. “The sad truth is that Kensington Market isn’t healthy anymore,” she says. |
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We’ve all seen them: the humble city garbage bins in some state of disrepair, whether it be an access door swinging in the wind, drink cans bursting from overfilled holes, or the rare trash timber, where the whole bin falls over. As temperatures rise, so does the stench of an overfull bin’s contents. It’s gross, and city councillor Josh Matlow is mad about it. At the heart of the issue is the city’s contract with Astral Media, the company responsible for maintaining the bins. Matlow told us why he’d like to toss that contract in the trash. |
Torontonians are entitled to our obsession with the upcoming Frankenstein movie: the production was shot here; it was directed by 416-o-phile Guillermo del Toro; and the monster is played by Hollywood hunk Jacob Elordi. When the first trailer dropped on Sunday, we got close-ups of Oscar Isaac’s frostbitten beard, that ship that del Toro posted on X and—wait, this can’t possibly be right—not a single second of Elordi’s hot monster. What gives? |
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Trump spent last week on a bit of a get-out-of-jail-free spree, pardoning and commuting the sentences of fellow shady reality stars and tax evaders as well as former Chicago crime boss Larry Hoover. Kanye West, who has been a public Hoover advocate for years, posted on X in celebration: “Thank you Drake for helping to bring Hoover home.” Confused? We’ve got you. |
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