Honest Ed’s turkey giveaway successful like always. Which, Torontoist supposes, is not technically “news,” but considering the rest of today’s actual news, we felt it appropriate to lead off with a softball. Canada to encourage “constructive” emissions agreement at the Bali climate change summit. Since this is John Baird we’re talking about here, expect “constructive” [...]

Toronto’s tap water places third in blind taste test. So the next time somebody from New York tells you how awesome it is there, you can say “well, sure, but our water is delicious.” Professional wrestler Chris Benoit found dead along with wife and son. Police are investigating it as a double murder/suicide. For those [...]

Remember when, if someone was shot on the streets of the GTA, neighbours would appear on TV saying something like “I’m shocked—you just don’t expect things like this to happen here?” Those were the good old days in Kensington Market. Violent crime has always been part of the area (usually it’s attributed to drugs or [...]

Early Sunday morning, a 19-year-old man was found shot near Carr St. and Denison Ave. That afternoon, Carr was still closed while investigators combed through nearby yards looking for clues. At the scene, about 18 little neon green pylons covered bullet casings and other pieces of evidence. We told one of the policeman that, around [...]

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend… Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he’s just a [...]

Hey, it’s snowing. Crazy! A tangled web of relationship intrigue baffles the investigators of a Markham double homicide. After reading this article three times, I still can’t figure out who was married to who and who was having what affairs… …and on that note, Happy Valentine’s Day. With a similarly macabre look at love, a [...]

As Best of 2006 lists wind down, First of 2007 lists are just getting started. After Toronto’s post-celebration hangover wore off, the city took stock of its first firsts of the year. In Scarborough, a Malvern resident was arrested in relation to the First Homicide of 2007, and the newborn son of Patrick Thanaratnam and [...]

Ed Mirvish: theatre tycoon, city hero and…turkey giveaway guru? People lined up overnight outside Honest Ed’s for the 19th Annual Turkey Giveaway on Sunday. Now approaching age 93, Ed himself was sadly not in attendance, but son David Mirvish took over greeting duties. City Homicide #64, if you’re keeping track: 26-year-old Mississauga resident, Dennis Kwame [...]

Another day, another mayoral debate, and Torontoist was liveblogging it from University of Toronto’s Hart House (See the Star’s non-liveblogging take, as well). Kevin Clark crashed the debate, Pitfield wants to drop the voting age to 16, and all of the candidates debating agreed that landed immigrants should be allowed to vote in municipal elections. [...]

A seven (!!) alarm fire destroyed a building at Queen and Sherbourne. The building was occupied by a paint store which had been there since 1913. Firefighters rushed to the scene to stop the fire from spreading. King Jong Il is “very sorry” about the nuclear test. Also, the leader of Korea expressed sentiments such [...]

The big story today is the three dead found on 1he 19th floor of the Delta Chelsea. Police were called in around 4:30 am and discovered the bodies of two men and a woman, all had stab wounds. The floor has been sealed off but the hotel remains open. A shooting of a Scarborough teenager [...]