Mayor David Miller has already named deputy city manager Joe Pennachetti as the favoured replacement for city manager Shirley Hoy, who tendered her resignation yesterday. Torontoist can’t find anything funny about this story and is actively soliciting suggestions for jokes. Any contributions which include the phrase “stop calling me Shirley” will be automatically disqualified. Workers [...]

Longtime Canadian Autoworkers Union head Buzz Hargrove will join other famous Buzzes, including Aldrin and Lightyear, in retirement this year. Reportedly Hargrove feels that his legacy has been cemented with this year’s twin triumphs of the Order of Canada and the collapse of the Canadian automotive industry. The number of criminal charges laid in relation [...]

The Star says that an immigration crackdown has halved the number of exotic dancers in Toronto over the last decade, fuelling lap-dance inflation and forcing strip club customers to make hard choices between Froot Loops for the kids and throwing twenties at naked strangers. A new survey shows that Canadians are losing confidence in the [...]

It suddenly gets hot today with a forecast high temperature of 32º, meaning newspapers are required by law to run daily photos of people frolicking in fountains. Sprinklers are also acceptable, provided a dog is included in the shot. Union members angry about the impending job cuts at GM in Oshawa are blockading the entrance [...]