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If you want to gauge the disconnect between business "experts” and regular, everyday consumers, read online coverage of Bell Canada’s announced purchase of 750 The Source (formerly Radio Shack) stores last Monday. This apparently “gutsy” move will get noticed, said Kaan Yigit, president of telecommunications consultancy Solutions Research Group in the Globe and Mail, because "The Source is a respected leader in consumer electronics retailing right across Canada,” explained Bell and BCE CEO George Cope in the Star.

">believe that, as dance music artists, "there's much better places for us to be," (this is said right at the 4:16 mark, of all times) Toronto's other homegrown house producers have taken the entire electro world by storm in the last few months. One needs only to point one's browser to the website Beatport, which has quickly become the DJ world's number one website for downloading high-bitrate dance music, and look on the "Top Downloads" panel on the lower right. In that period of time, there has been at least one track by a Toronto-based artist on the Top 10, and in the last five months, at least one Ontarian (if you include Windsor-raised Richie Hawtin, a.k.a. Plastikman.) Here is a brief look at three Toronto artists who have been conquering dancefloors around the world with their popular tracks on Beatport:

A collection of façades on BCE Place on Wellington Street.

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

From pristine wetland to industrial transportation hub and the confluence of major urban expressways, the Lower Don Lands area has gone through many changes throughout Toronto’s history. The mouth of the Don River is about to change again.

The 1960s and 1970s saw family dining restaurant chains explode across North America. Chains such as Steak n' Burger took staples of diners and greasy spoons and used cleanliness, low prices and conformity to draw in hungry families.

Looks like the weather forecast is calling for nothing but rain over the next little while. Lucky for you, we have an excellent solution to pass the time indoors. Grab a friend or a hot date and head over to the Allen Lambert Galleria in BCE Place to check out the World Press Photo 2006 exhibit.

Christopher Hume weighs in on the $20 million design competition run by the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation.

The Toronto Sun and Torontoist agree on something. That Toronto Unlimited Logo totally bites. It bites so much that a giant room of monkeys working in front of iMacs would eventually design a better logo. Instead of going this experimental route billboard company Astral Media teamed up with OCAD advertising students to come up with alternative slogans for the city.

Torontoist is probably going to be forced to sacrifice our Canadian passport upon admitting this, but never mind: we've never actually been inside the Hockey Hall of Fame. However, we have always admired the dignified looking old building it is housed in, the former Bank of Montreal that the BCE Place was so lovingly constructed around. We would be disappointed if such a fetching structure didn't have at least one ghostly legend attached to it, but we needn't fear, for there are two, even if they are variations of the same story.

No one ever asks what Torontoist's favourite building in the city is, but if they did we would surely reply, "Why, BCE Place, of course." With it's soaring windows and light-grid flooring, the Allan Lambert Galleria (the official name of the main atrium) is usually flooded with light, and is thus an ideal venue for all manner of art exhibitions. It is to TOist's great delight that this space is beng used more and more for such things - a few weeks ago a gorgeous series of photographs of water were on display to raise awareness for one of David Suzuki's conservation projects. And until October 23rd, the World Press Photo annual exhibition of award-winning photojournalism is up for all to see. World Press Photo, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is a non-profit organization based in Amsterdam that runs the world's largest annual photojournalism contest. The winning entries are put on display in cities all over the world, and BCE Place has been playing host to the exhibition in Toronto for the past several years. This year's powerful batch of photographs ranges from funny to beautiful to upsetting, and often some combination those adjectives. There are shots of anything and everything; sly sports photography is mounted alongside images of war so violent and personal it is a wonder the film survived. The juxtaposition of this variety of images is thought-provoking and moving, and it is well worth braving the throngs of tourists lining up at the Marche (and if you go on a weekday, all you'll have to contend with are the suits).

...and not the pre-Rod Stewart 60's rock band! Though they were much better before Stewart infused his trademark pub-rocking, scratchy-throat voice. Anyway, not the Faces at all. This is called "Faces of the Global Village" exhibit, and it's at BCE Place starting yesterday. Over 100 images from documentary photographer Irving Posluns will be on display throughout the Allen Lambert Galleria (you know, that main hallway thing there), depicting the humanity and compassion needed for our current 'global village' situation. The photo to the left, for instance, is a school girl from the West Indies carrying the book "We are Neighbours" - the theme of the exhibit. This is a free Oxfam-sponsored event, running until August 26. And, in case you like ice cream, BCE Place give a free cone to anyone brave enough to spend $5 in their food court.

Last night, TOist was privy to a sneak preview of the new wing at Yorkdale Mall during the “Flaunt It” opening party, complete with champagne flutes, body-painted human mannequins and gleaming plate glass and stainless steel just begging for fingerprints. Workers were still scurrying around fixing tiles and adjusting the rectangular grass-filled planters until the moment guests arrived. Among the 40 new stores, there’s isn’t much you can’t –yawn—already find at Eaton Centre or Sherway Gardens. But TOist loves the airy design. Take a memo, dark and dreary Vaughan Mills, there’s gonna be a quiz. Imagine BCE Place’s dramatic vaulted glass cathedral ceiling (taken down a few notches to a mere 60 feet), a streetscape lined with faux-façade storefronts, and a polished Jerusalem limestone floor, and you get the picture. It’s like shopping a street market, indoors. TOist just might become a mall rat again.