Attention Wintourites, Olsen fan club members, and other fabulously fur-clad denizens of our fair city: It's January. It's freaking cold. Yes, the Weather Network says it's going to be unseasonably warm any day now, but we'll believe that when we stop seeing our breath—indoors. So, when you arise to minus-whatever temperatures tomorrow, bundle up in those pelts. Put on your fuzzy bunny muffs, your silver fox stoles, your Muscovite mink hats. Chinchilla-cape your cold......

Recently, Torontoist went canoeing in Algonquin Park (we got 34 mosquito bites). However, arguably the most amusing thing to happen during our entire trip was passing a billboard on our way into the park advertising a "Dock in a Box." We instantly became distracted by a lengthy fantasy that the company knew exactly what it was doing and included a YouTube video on its website about how it created the Dock in a Box......

Picton residents cautiously unshuttered their windows and unbolted their doors after a 20-pound Japanese snow monkey was successfully sedated by police and returned to his home at a roadside zoo. A neighbour spotted the animal, which was taken down by police with a tranquillizer dart about half a kilometer from his cage. The Japanese macaque was first noticed missing from Bergeron's Exotic Animal Sanctuary on Sunday morning. Police immediately began an intensive monkey-hunt, with officers......

Proof positive that Toronto is one of more animal rights conscience cities in North America, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will host a two-day conference here in October. One of only three planned conferences, the Helping Animals 101 conference will focus on how to improve your local animal shelter, speaking out for animals, and starting your own group. The PETA people have outlined the Toronto affair as follows: At the conference,......

When it comes to animal rights, count on Torontoist to deliver all your vegan and vegetarian news. This week, over fifty Toronto-area KFC managers received a copy of PETA activist Pamela Anderson's video (no, not that video, LOL). Anderson sent a tape depicting graphic torture of KFC-owned chickens before they end up in batter, in a radical effort to at the very least change the company's handling of their stock. KFC currently places still-living......