Not content to let America have all the schadenfreude fun, Ashley Madison—Toronto-based online dating company intended for people looking to cheat on their spouses, whose slogan is “when monogamy becomes monotony” and who is responsible for TV ads like these—took out a full-page ad in today’s New York Post. Addressed to Eliot Spitzer, the now–former [...]

Plagued by complaints, the City of Toronto has finally gotten around to ticketing some homeowners who don’t clear the snow in front of their property. A city spokesperson said they prefer not to send out inspectors in the winter because it’s so difficult to get around. Anxious to cement a reputation for self-serving indifference to [...]

Gas prices in Toronto are at $1.09 or more a litre today, reflecting all-time record oil prices of over US$108 per barrel. For all our driving readers, it might cheer you up to consider that it’s still cheaper to fill up your car with gas than say, orange juice or Diet Pepsi. By the way, [...]

Taking a page from David Miller’s Big Book of Intergovernmental Panhandling, Dalton McGuinty is complaining that Ontario is going to need a hot cash injection from the Feds if we’re going to get those manufacturing jobs back from Bangladesh. Q: What do you get when you have an NDP mayor, a Liberal Premier, and a [...]

Abuse, dancing, destruction, disappointment, death and Laffy Taffy, in that order: 8 year-olds, dude. The soooper-annoying Keith’s Scottish guy is up on child porn charges – including pictures of infants. SNL goes Narnia Rap Redux with a new viral video. Or at least an attempt. Meanwhile, eye writes about Queen Street Man this week. We [...]

Lazy is a relative term. And more than one of our relatives are lazy. But Helen Spitzer’s CleverLazy isn’t all that ‘lazy’ – but moreso ‘on a different schedule.’ Every six days – either staggered this way on purpose or like our own podcast segment (random) – Spitz rolls out a radioshow-cum-podcast like none other. [...]

Whatever shall we do now that the CBC is on strike? It’s not enough to fill the projected 6-week work stoppage, but here we’ve collected a few suggestions: First, to ease the pain: Helen Spitzer, god of CFRU, points us to a band of CBC enthusiasts called Peter Mansbridge and the CBCs. You could become [...]