For those of us who live in Toronto, the harbinger of the end of the summer is the arrival of the Ex – the Canadian National Exhibition to those of you not in the know. The Ex is just basically a country fair on steroids but without tractor pulls or demolition derbies (which is too bad because they are a lot of fun). The Ex is not generally newsworthy unless one of two things happen, someone gets hurt on a ride or people get sick eating the food. I suppose the daily double would be if someone got hurt eating food on a ride, but I don’t think that’s happened yet.

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