Thousands of crane and heavy equipment operators go on strike. So if you needed to lift something really heavy, well, you should have done that last week. Jordin Sparks wins American Idol. Now she will go on to have a career as brilliantly successful as Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, and that crazy dude with the prematurely white hair from last season who rips off Joe Cocker's shtick. And in ten months' time, Fox will......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Some highlights: ROM Crystal's sharp edges cut Miller's Hair (104 - 101): In the closest and most depressing match of the tournament so far, a napkin sketch gone wild shears the mayor's golden locks from atop his head. The late game upset may qualify for a recount......

Each weekday for the next two weeks, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Some highlights from yesterday's matches: Taste of the Danforth grills street meat (103 - 100). In an amazing and dramatic last-minute turnaround, Toronto showed that it salivates more thinking about one day of tasty meat to a whole year of drunk food......

Every week (or so), two Torontoist staffers square off to debate an issue that's important to our city. We invite our readers to join the debate in the comments section following the post. Background photo by imuttoo from the from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. London's congestion charge was introduced in February 2003. The initial charge was £5, but as of July 2005 it costs £8 (roughly $18.25) each weekday to drive a car into the......