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Sunday, May 5, 2024
Here’s a trick question: How many ingredients are there in oatmeal?
One, right? OK, even if you count the oats and the water, that’s two. So… two at most, right?
Not when you get oatmeal at McDonald’s.
The fast-food chain, noted for making food that is very bad for you, has recently added oatmeal to its menu as a healthy option for customers in the United States.
In Toronto, as in many large cities, there are lots of people who cannot afford to live in a house or an apartment.
To make it easier for people to afford housing, the city offers low-priced apartments.There are more than 100,000 people in Toronto who live in low-cost housing.
Those apartments are managed by a department of the city called the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC). The people at TCHC are supposed to use our tax money to buy houses and apartments that are then rented at a low cost by people who haven’t got a lot of money. It’s big responsibility.
Toronto has many wonderful museums. Most people are familiar with the Royal Ontario Museum (the one with the dinosaurs!). But did you know there is a shoe museum with shoes from all through the ages? And a ceramic museum that displays beautiful pottery from many countries?
One of our most interesting museums is the Textile Museum of Canada. The word “textile” means “cloth,” or “fabric.”
There are many beautiful works of art that have been made out of, or painted on, or sewn into fabric. The Textile Museum displays the work of talented artists who happen to work in fabric.
