We rarely do an Extra, Extra, but tonight's an exception for two reasons: first, two major crime events -- a bus hijacking and a shooting -- happened in downtown Toronto over the past twenty-four hours that merit mentioning; and second, in each story the facts are getting lost along the way and, as usual, the media is muddling the details of what actually (seems to have) happened. It's our goal in this recap to......

Does Toronto’s literary scene have a massive insecurity complex? Judging from the three panelists to Toronto Life’s recent fiction roundtable the answer would have to be yes. Panelists Sheila Heti, Shyam Selvadurai (pictured here) and Andrew Pyper, all very good authors, ooze self-doubt through the first part of the panel (the second should be appearing on the Toronto Life website soon). It’s not that they don’t think they’re capable writers, it’s an insecurity about Toronto......

The civic minded folks at Spacing magazine, Ryerson University and the University of Toronto have brought Wendy Radmacher Willis, executive director of the City Club of Portland to lecture at Innis Hall, 7:00 tonight. Since 1916 the City Club of Portland has advocated, fought for and raised issues of concern to the citizens of that little patch of civic sanity in the Pacific Northwest. The club tackles everything from education reform, the Patriot Act, social......