This week: Scarborough, Montreal, and the whole entire world

Elsewhere:

• My map of all of Toronto’s residents’ associations and neighbourhood groups just got two dozen new organizations (there are 108 mapped now), thanks in no small part to Jessica Roher from the Scarborough Civic Action Network, who helped pass the map around the east end of the city. Thanks so much, Jessica!
• The Grid went and got itself named the world’s best-designed newspaper for its circulation size by the Society for News Design, which was a very nice surprise. And hey, the judges like the words, too; they said that “the engaged writing, smart editing and heavy research is done in a young, sophisticated voice and executed while obviously having great fun.”

In The Grid:

• Chasing someone the length of one of the TTC’s new subway cars in your wheelchair while threatening suicide is probably not a good way to hit on them, nor is “Your lips are the perfect colour for my dick” an especially good pick-up line. Here are the very worst of the worst pick-up attempts that The Grid’s readers have been on the receiving end of.*
• Toronto’s biggest sports-bar screen—at the Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment–owned Real Sports Bar—is 59 ft² larger than the bachelor units in the condo building that rise above it. It really is humongous. *
• What if Bixi Toronto covered as much ground as Bixi Montreal did? It would be way, way bigger, is what.

(* means an article or a version of it appeared in The Grid in print; otherwise, it was online-exclusive.)