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Scientists and doctors have long warned the public about the dangers of staying out in the sun for too long. Relaxing as sunbathing is, the effects of forgetting to slap on the sunscreen may be felt long afterwards. One sun-worshipper at Hanlan's Point beach discovered the worst-case scenario yesterday, staying out so long that they fused with the sand. Despite this mishap, their patriotic fervour remained undimmed. Lineups up to two hours long did......

Happy Canada Day! Today is the one day of the year where Torontonians pretend that their city isn't the best one in the country, and happily express national pride and forget that the rest of the country isn't particularly fond of them because the rest of the country is totally jealous. Hooray! Sure, there are fireworks tonight pretty much everywhere, and a few bands that aren't Final Fantasy or Feist are playing for free......

Happy Canada Day! There is lots of stuff going on around town, including fireworks tonight at Ashbridges Bay, Ontario Place, Downsview Park, and Mel Lastman Square, where Mel Lastman will be fired into space on a giant skyrocket. Delta Kappa Epsilon officials expressed shock after a drug bust at a chapter of the fraternity in Toronto. Police seized $126,000 worth of illegal drugs at the Alpha Phi Crack House near U of T. Serious......

Every Saturday morning, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Mechanics' Institute, William Notman, 1868. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Canada Day weekend is upon us, with the nation's birthday serving as the perfect excuse to celebrate the start of summer. Fireworks, public meals, outdoor concerts—Torontonians will be out in force for these events over the next few days, much as they were......

Weekly indie institution Wavelength started in 1999, setting up shop at Ted's Wrecking Yard, then bouncing between venues until landing at its current home, Sneaky Dee's, in 2002. Past performers read like a who's-who of home grown indie music: Great Lake Swimmers, The Bicycles, Cadence Weapon, Julie Doiron, Peaches, Final Fantasy, Feist—and the list goes on. After a Canada Day hiatus, the Sunday night series is back with a stellar July lineup for its live......

Photo by Carrie Musgrave. We could begin this week by rambling on about how we're into the second half of the year already (really?!) or tell you all about our Canada Day weekend, but let's just get straight to it this week. Go see The White Stripes on Thursday. If there's one show you go to this entire summer, this is the one. Really. We recently saw the Stripes at Bonnaroo and they were......

Yesterday was Canada Day. Well, actually, technically it wasn't because Canada Day is officially celebrated on the second of July whenever the first of July falls on a Sunday. But that sort of thing only matters to the people who insist that the new millennium started in 2001 rather than 2000, and who wants to be one of those people? Canada losing manufacturing jobs rapidly. Economists say "no, really? A strong dollar and globalization......

Today is the First Nations National Day of Action. According to organizers The Assembly of First Nations (AFN), the event is a chance for all Canadians to call for "immediate action to improve [aboriginal peoples'] quality of life." Basically, bands from across the country are demanding the government work with First Nations to gain control of the programs, services and decisions that affect their lives. At noon, there will be a peaceful demonstration supporting......

Photo by jonathanhoustonhill. While some of us are lucky enough to celebrate Canada Day from a tent or cottage in Muskoka, many others will be stuck downtown to celebrate the 140th anniversary of Confederation. Torontoist has organized a listing of events and activities to help you decide where and when you'll see live music, eat corn on the cob, and watch fireworks light up the skyline.......

Photo by Carrie Musgrave. After a brief hiatus due to NxNE and Bonnaroo, Live Baby Live is back! You're excited, aren't you? Don't deny it. As always, lots of recently announced shows. Interestingly, you'll notice that all of the horse bands will be through town over the next few months. We wonder what animal trend will be next? Not only that, but The Black Lips and Bloc Party must really love Toronto, since both......

This year, the city that moves on Canada Day quite sensibly threw what may be the country's best indie culture fest over Thanksgiving weekend. Now in its fifth year, Pop Montreal took over the indie city from the 4th to the 8th like a clever NXnE that's actually fun for bands and the public to go to. More than a music fest, it also included art about music, films about music, and even a......

The Globe reports that drownings over the Canada Day long weekend were actually down this year. Only three were reported, sadly one of them was an eight-year old boy. In 2005, 16 people drowned over the July long weekend. A man was shot in an elevator at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel by the lakeshore. The cops also found about four kilos of cocaine in a hotel room. Despite events like this police insist that......

For those of you who can't escape the city this Canada Day weekend, you could always head down to the lake where the Harbourfront is holding its Power of Place festival. It's a bit of a hodgepodge weekend with everything from Jason Collett, the Dears (pictured) and fireworks on Saturday night to the Refugee All Stars and blind musicians and Eye cover subjects Amadou and Mariam Sunday. The weekend's musical offerings wrap up with local......

We’re all still busy basking in the warm glow of the revelation that the Royal, at least, will live again, and we know we mentioned it last week, but Superman Returns has been getting good enough word of mouth it might actually be worth checking out. Eye’s Jason Anderson claims “it's the rare blockbuster that lives up to advance hype”, but thankfully, good old trustworthy John Harkness of NOW gives it a kicking because the......

Two teams from the Toronto Kickball league will be heading down to NYC for the Brooklyn Kickball Invitational over the Canada Day long weekend and we wish the teams going lots of luck. But before they can kick their way to international hipster glory they need to make gas money (not to mention bribes for the customs officials at the border). So on Thu. June 22nd the league will be holding a fundraiser at Sneaky......

Eli Singer, of Singer.TO, signs on to a lifetime of hyperlinks and inspired comments from Billonlogan today, as we launch his weekly feature, Tech Tune-Up. Today, Flickry photographers. Tomorrow, the world: Toronto is home to world-class photobloggers. Earlier this year, Sam Javanrouh's Daily Dose of Imagery won a Bloggie for best international photoblog. PhotoJunkie by Rannie Turingan took the best in Canada prize. Sam and Rannie do an amazing job of capturing moments in our......

Just before we all do what we are going to do on Canada Day weekend, consider the following links: - Live8 opener and former eye cover guy K'Naan released his album, The Dusty Foot Philosopher. This will be what record industry types call a 'soft release,' meaning the promo blitz will be drawn out to the fall instead of all up in your face right now. In correlation with his album, K'Naan has given......

Bob Geldof, the Nobel Prize winning, hunger hating, debt relieving, musician and activist, officially announced Toronto as the Canadian location for Live 8. With less than a month to go before the July 2nd concert and Canada Day events taking place all over the city the on the 1st, planning Live 8 is going to involve a lot of tough decision making. Where is it going to be? Who’s going to play? Torontoist comes through......