INSIDE COPY: Drake Put Ice in a Parking Lot and Toronto Had to Call the Fire Department

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Apr 23, 2026 · 8m

Weird news stories today do not get much better than a rapper placing a massive block of ice in downtown Toronto for an album launch and the city spending 16 hours melting it. Toronto Fire was called. The mayor backed the decision. A fan arrived with a sledgehammer. Drake's album drops May 15th and everyone in Toronto knows it.

Prego, the pasta sauce company, is also now in the listening device business. A small recorder for your dinner table captures family conversations on a memory card. It launched April 1st. That date is doing a lot of work in this story.

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