If you've ever taken the skytrain in Vancouver you'll know it's a familiar sight to see people standing outside the stations handing out newspapers. At first I was a little confused by this - How much are they? Do I make a donation or something? Nope - they're free! Actually, there is two different papers - 24hours and Metro. Both are distributed in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. Whoever thought of making free papers for commuters is a genius!
Mostly the papers are full of local news, advertisements, classifieds, entertainment, etc. They also tend to carry some off the wall news such as this...
"A Montreal artist wants to construct an enormous banana that would float over Texas." The artist calls the project "Geostationary Banana Over Texas" and says he wants to build it because "Texas is as symbolic as the banana." The 300 metre long banana would be inflated with helium and would be up for a month. He also said that "the banana has a lot of symbolism: phallic, humour and political too."
Why not a giant inflated apple over New York? Too ironic? But seriously, how does someone even think of something like that? And where does someone hear of it and decide it's news? I will have to admit, I found it much more entertaining to read about than the still deflated roof on BC Place, ongoing gang shootings, etc.
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