Move over Earl Camembert

For those of you who think that Toronto is big and impersonal, this front-page story shows we’re really just a big small town. Would a New York paper run this on the front page?

Rexdale’s first microwave still cooking after 41 years

Eighty-three-year-old Rexdale resident Isabelle Cadel has literally nuked the competition by winning Panasonic Canada’s oldest microwave in Canada contest.

Last month, Cadel sent in her application, which included a hand-drawn rendition of her nearly 41-year-old operational microwave, after spotting an advertisement for the nationwide Dinner, Design and 50,000 Dimes Challenge in The Etobicoke Guardian.