Anthony Collins @comma_chameleon
Copy editor and page maker at the Toronto Star. I spent three years at the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music. instagram.com/comma_chameleo… Toronto Joined March 2013-
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Challengers or, as I like to call it, The Faist and the Bi-curious
On Friday’s @TorontoStar A1: An Ontario college slashes programs amid a drop in revenue from international students: @nkeung @krushowy report. Plus: MPP Sarah Jama defies the Speaker’s ban on kaffiyehs in the legislature (📸 @krushowy). And @bruce_arthur remembers Bob Cole.
Today in cavalry
On Thursday’s @TorontoStar A1: How “supertall” towers will change Toronto’s skyline and its housing market: @anabpereiraa reports (📸 Andrew Francis Wallace). Plus: @thecribby on an organized crime probe. And @wendygillis on questions left in the wake of Umar Zameer’s trial.
On Wednesday’s @TorontoStar A1: Police Chief Myron Demkiw walks back comments about the verdict in Umar Zameer’s trial: @wendygillis reports. Plus: @nkeung on visitor visas and asylum claims. And the former publisher of the National Enquirer testifies at Donald Trump’s trial.
On Monday’s @TorontoStar A1: A judge apologizes to Umar Zameer as he is acquitted in the death of Toronto police Const. Jeffrey Northrup: @powellbetsy @KenyonWallace report, 📸 Andrew Francis Wallace. Plus: @njaved on Peel Region. And @KopunF on the fight over volleyball courts.
I’m not going to look at the cherry blossoms for Christ’s sake I already saw the eclipse wasn’t that enough??
Still thinking about the insane Air Canada security video that shows passengers reviewing the safety card while herding cattle, donning oxygen masks on the P.E.I. coast, turning on airplane mode beneath the northern lights
On Thursday’s @TorontoStar A1: The tale behind the biggest gold heist in Canadian history: @OmarMosleh Peter Edwards & @andy_takagi report. Plus: @nkeung on temp. foreign workers. @powellbetsy on the trial in a police officer’s death. And @bruce_arthur on Jontay Porter’s NBA ban.
I love how Brits say “at the weekend” like it’s a fun little nightclub.
On Wednesday’s @TorontoStar A1: @TondaMacC @aballinga @susandelacourt break down the federal budget, with more coverage inside (📸 Sean Kilpatrick). Plus: @lexharvs on drivers feeling the pain from new Gardiner lane closures.
My supply of Rabba plastic bags, carefully amassed over many years, has finally run out. Do I just spread my garbage across the floor and lie down to die?
Can’t believe Girls never had an episode called “Hannah and Her Blisters”
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Proud to have won the first National Newspaper Award in the Photo Story category. Thanks @NNA_CCJ, @MoiraWelsh, @TarasSlawnych, and @TorontoStar
I love it when the city hides utilities in normal-looking buildings...you thought this was a house? Good luck, you're about to get vaporized.
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Incredible photography double duty by @krushowy, in addition to her story
On Friday’s @TorontoStar A1: An Ontario college slashes programs amid a drop in revenue from international students: @nkeung @krushowy report. Plus: MPP Sarah Jama defies the Speaker’s ban on kaffiyehs in the legislature (📸 @krushowy). And @bruce_arthur remembers Bob Cole.
What if we kissed at the Ruth’s Chris steakhouse designed by the son-in-law of Frank Lloyd Wright and Josef Stalin
Thursday evening in Toronto
Alongside the standard Dienstag 'Tuesday' and Donnerstag 'Thursday', Bavarian has the alternative day names Ergetag and Pfinztag. These two go back, via Gothic, to Ancient Greek names – Ergetag from Áreōs hēméra (Ares' day), and Pfinztag from pémptē hēméra (fifth day)!
'Duke' comes from Latin 'dux' (leader). It's related to 'dūcere' (to lead; to pull), whence '-duce', e.g. 'to seduce' (i.e. to lead astray). The 2nd part of German 'Herzog' (duke) is cognate to 'dux'. It's related to 'ziehen' (to pull), cognate of 'dūcere'. Old English ... /1
Union Carbide Building, 270 Park Avenue, New York (Natalie de Blois and Gordon Bunshaft, SOM, 1960-61. demolished 2021)