Daily Roundup: Strange bedfellows

Stephen Harper must have been paying attention to the study revealing how much money Pride weekend pumps into Toronto’s economy. Why else would he decide that the upcoming G20 economic ministers summit should be held then and there?

If you haven’t booked your hotel room in Toronto this June, better get on it fast!

And for the economists from around the world who will find themselves in a city of rainbows? We managed to get our hands on the first attempt at tourism marketing:

And in other news from the world of fantasy, we learned from the latest installment of daytime soap One Life to Life that gay men having sex for the first time are adorably nervous about it, require lots of vanilla candles and can never ever follow through due to hate-crime plot devices:

This would never have happened if Kyle and Oliver were economists…

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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