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March 10, 2009 | 12:50 pm

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Toronto sewage is farm-bound, meat is stolen, Hillary Duff is pro-lunch

Soup: Get some, get better (Photo by Robert Couse-Baker)

Soup: Get some, get better (Photo by Robert Couse-Baker)

• Spurred by research supported by the American College of Chest Physicians regarding the health benefits of soup, chef Bonnie Stern offers three recipes, just in time for the end of flu season. They don’t call it “Jewish penicillin” for nothing. [National Post]

• School board studies show that 68 per cent of students at north Toronto’s Emery Collegiate don’t eat breakfast and 54 per cent don’t eat lunch. The Toronto District School Board is trying to change that, with a little help from Hillary Duff. [National Post]

• A truck full of meat stolen from a Paris, Ontario, business was recently found in Toronto, and it looks like this was not a one-off robbery. Another vehicle was nabbed from the same business on Sunday—this time carrying $80,000 in frozen meat. [CD989fm]

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Opening Soon
February 26, 2009 | 10:53 am

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Bread is the thread

In Paris, even the dogs know good bread (Photo by Amy Paul)

In Paris, even the dogs know good bread (Photo by Amy Paul)

The barn floors are in, and Union is feeling like a French tavern. There is something about the way Paris eats and feeds itself that I’ve always wanted to capture in a restaurant. I wanted to build something from what I saw in the taverns, tabacs and cafés I used to frequent; something that would lift me up and give me refuge. I saw them as fuelling stations: the warm lights, the mirrors, the marble bars, the vested waiters, the coffees, the demis and the wine—the bustle and the clatter of it all. Just being there makes you hungry.

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Urban Decoder
March 1, 2006 | 12:00 am

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What are Toronto’s most checked-out library books?

What are Toronto’s most checked-out library books? And is it true that our city has one of the busiest systems in the world?—Jack Kuusemäe, Leaside

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Urban Decoder
December 1, 2004 | 12:00 am

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At the corner of Queen and Pape, there’s an independent gas station called Stohos that advertises “biodiesel”

At the corner of Queen and Pape, there’s an independent gas station called Stohos that advertises “biodiesel.” What is it?—Basil McCrae, East York

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Urban Decoder
July 1, 2004 | 12:00 am

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While travelling the subway, I often hear the announcement “99 Eglinton, 99 Eglinton” over the intercom

Dear Urban Decoder: While travelling the subway, I often hear the announcement “99 Eglinton, 99 Eglinton” over the intercom. I was once told this meant a passenger had jumped onto the tracks, but I certainly hope it isn’t true, considering how often I hear it. What’s the story?—Michelle Kelly, Bloor West Village

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Urban Decoder
March 1, 2004 | 12:00 am

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Lately, the overhead electronic signs on the DVP have displayed such singsongy messages as “Check your gauges, control your rages,” and “Why fool with fate? Don’t tailgate”

Lately, the overhead electronic signs on the DVP have displayed such singsongy messages as “Check your gauges, control your rages,” and “Why fool with fate? Don’t tailgate.” What poetic soul produced these highway epistles?—J. Kelly O’Connor, Agincourt

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