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We hate to burst your bubble, but there's a good chance that the government of Australia hates Canada and all Canadians...especially you. This is, of course, nothing more than a wildly inappropriate and unverifiable allegation on our part, but we do have a bit of evidence to support our theory. You see, Australia's official position on Canada is that we're a dangerous country to visit.

Spacing did it, now CTV is doing it: CTV wants you to make a video about our city using the prefix phrase "My Toronto is…". Interview a kid smoking in line at Funhaus, a smiling, round-faced butcher at St. Lawrence Market, and a Bloor station musician. Ya know, the usual. Then pepper the vid with shots of the skyline, Kensington, and a passing streetcar. Or you can do something interesting.

Development of Maple Leaf Gardens has been in limbo for several years, but it finally looks like things are about to get moving. The 75-year old building, having been vacated by the friendly neighbourhood hockey club in 1999, was purchased by Loblaws in 2004.

CTV will be airing an in-depth report on each story on their 11 PM national news, starting December 23. There's bound to be some debate among people who care about this sort of thing as to the order of the stories, as well as about some glaring omissions. But should Stephen Harper lose a federal election in 2007, he can take solace in the fact that in at least one poll, he totally kicked Stephane Dion's ass!

There's a new sheriff in town, and his name's Ujjal Dosanjh. The Canadian Health Minister says he won't let Internet pharmacies ship Canada's prescription drug supply to the U.S. Dosanjh and his newfound toughness comes as the United States still can't figure out their flu vaccine or soaring drug costs. The government is considering cracking down on doctors whose signatures allow the export of our drugs, Dosanjh said to CTV News. This comes on the heels of Dosanjh's speech at Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he said that "Canada cannot be the drugstore of the United States." Essentially what he is saying is that the U.S. will have to go somewhere else for their drug fix. This Chretien-like stance probably doesn't help recovering Canada-U.S. relations, but it does make Dosanjh a sort of a rebel hero here at the Torontoist offices.