Downtown hosted the annual Santa Claus Parade on Sunday, kicking off another season of gratuitous shopping. In related news, the Nintendo Wii was released and quickly sold out.

B.C. slaughtered Montreal 25-14 to win the Grey Cup, and then promptly broke it.
Pssht. Way to go, Lions.

Today in War: Kissinger says a victory in Iraq is "not possible ", but Bush has no plans on bringing the troops home just yet, and Tony Blair pledges continuing support in Afghanistan.

Have we been fighting cancer all wrong? Researchers suggest that radiation and chemotherapy treatments have been targeting the wrong cells.

Asthmatic children rejoice as Medic Alert announces a plan to provide bracelets to schoolchildren aged 4-14.

Lost in space! NASA enlists an orbiting probe to investigate a missing spacecraft around Mars.

Lakeshore Boulevard is a muddy, gridlocked mess after a broken water main flooded the street between York and Simcoe.

TomKat finally married in a lavish ceremony this weekend, proving to the world that Tom is neither gay, brainwashed or batshit crazy. Or did they...?

Photo courtesy of Onion on Flickr, more in her Santa Claus Parade set.