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As the dismemberment of the CHUM City empire proceeds apace, the CHUM building on Yonge near St. Clair has been sold to developer Aspen Ridge Homes for $21 million. Well, progress is progress and AM radio hasn't been a viable medium since the Stones were only middle-aged, but let's hope they keep the sign.

David Beckham is finally—finally—making his Toronto debut, and as we suspected it won’t be with the Los Angeles Galaxy. Instead, he’ll be the featured attraction of Major League Soccer’s annual all-star game, which this year pits the very best of MLS against the very mediocre West Ham United of the English Premiership.

Remember when David Beckham was supposed to make his Major League Soccer debut at BMO Field last year, then wasn't even on the substitute’s bench? Well, brace yourselves, transient sports fans: it’s about to happen again.

The Toronto Sun reports that Toronto has now gone 26 consecutive days without a murder, a streak unseen since the summer of 2006. A spokesman for the Toronto Association of Thugs expressed frustration at the dry spell, saying that their group was on track with shootings and stabbings but that their efforts were being stymied by effective medical services.

Civil engineers say that Ontario bridges are at risk. Short, short version: we're not in as bad shape as the Americans on this front, but we need more strenuous testing of existing bridges since most of ours were built in the 1960s and have expected design lives of about fifty years, so we're entering the beginnings of a replacement cycle.

Photo of David Beckham by rayxhead

in North America!