City sells "the McDonald's site" on Bloor for a fairly low price. However, Adam Vaughan insists there are upsides to the deal, such as being able to limit the height of the condo development that will take its place, because who would want tall buildings in the downtown core? Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer. Although initial reports that he has "weeks to live" were apparently false, pancreatic cancer is still one of the deadliest......

Unionized Toronto Star employees met at a downtown hotel yesterday and voted 96% in favour of a strike, or as the Star itself might say, "Star Employees Vote To Strike At Hotel." In another sign of potential economic trouble on the horizon, the benchmark TSX stock index dropped 623 points in two days. While most issues declined, analysts declared themselves bullish on several sectors, including rural real estate, bottled water, and firearms. The San......

This business - a piece of chocolate banana cake and a Future Bakery cake card - is definitely not an election issue. But should it be? Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn't eat cake. His diet precludes him from eating anything similar to this chocolate banana concoction. He's also known to drink 10-15 cups of coffee per day, with rumoured bouts of insomnia as a by-product. Other signs of an unbalanced diet include fits of anger......

When he puts it on in the U.S., he calls it Bigger than J. But here in the Great Heathen North, Rick Miller calls it by its full sacrilegious title: Bigger than Jesus. Funnyman Miller’s new one-man show – his most famous is a decade-old, still-touring Fringe hit called MacHomer – opens in previews tonight at Factory Theatre. The lapsed Catholic’s play, co-created by uberdirector Daniel Brooks, explores the various things done in Jesus’s name......

Torontoist won't even pretend we'll be venturing outside tonight. Nope, we'll be holed up in front of the tube, eating lime-doritos and scanning the networks for the least offensive pundits, as the vote count rolls in. In honour of the end, here are the two photos that Torontoist feels best represents the estimable candidates. Months of furiously checking Electoral-vote will come to an end today, and Torontoist only hopes that the vote won't have to......