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If you have a few million bucks lying around, perhaps you'd consider buying 50% of Ashley MacIsaac's future music revenues? If you like the odds—note that MacIsaac declared bankruptcy in 2000; that his most successful album, released thirteen years ago, sold half a million copies; and that the auction contains the sorta ominous note that "the annuity will expire upon my death"—go for it. But thanks to the Reuters article, which notes that 1.5 million Canadian dollars is somehow now equivalent to 744 million British pounds (news to us!), a way better way to get really rich really quickly might be to just hop on over to England to take advantage of that killer exchange rate.

Kennedy Station will remain closed today, at least for the morning. So, if you live in Scarborough, enjoy those shuttle buses.

Provincial Conservative leader John Tory, battling to stay employed in the face of disaffected fellow partiers who want to hold a leadership review next month, says in a letter on his website that he has travelled the province listening to members and coming up with ideas to address their concerns. The Tories are lucky; a leader who also had a job as an MPP probably wouldn't have time for stuff like that.

Sarah Polley is having a kickass month as her debut directorial feature, Away From Her, racks up the accolades. On Sunday, the Los Angeles film critics gave Polley a New Generation Award for up-and-coming directors. Then, on Monday, the New York film critics felt Away From Her was 2007's Best First Film. In addition, earlier this month Polley was named one of the "50 Smartest People in Hollywood" by Entertainment Weekly. She's the youngest...

In what simultaneously has to be one of the most hilariously inspired and gut-wrenching punishments in the history of parental discipline, a local GTA father has set a new standard for puffing penalization. The man—an elementary school teacher known by the screen name "k_lid"—decided to sell his son’s Christmas present on eBay (a notoriously hard-to-find copy of the best-selling Guitar Hero 3 game) when he returned home from work early to find 15-year-old Isaac...

Showdown's hot picks for cold season include cropped leather jackets and cute jumper dresses. Photos courtesy of Showdown Vintage. Why Showdown Vintage isn't like Toronto's 1348 other vintage stores: 1. It's not really a store. Staysail Shedd, Mick Jackson and Andrew Pepall launched Showdown as an eBay retailer in April 2006, using their combined years of vintage-picking expertise to sell the coolest of Toronto's castoffs to customers all over the globe. But with a...

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Once a week, the editors of each site—from LAist to Londonist—compile some of their most interesting posts into a brief blurb. It's Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse, and it appears, across the network, every Sunday.

Every two weeks, Torontoist looks to fill up all the square feet in your abode. Eschewing the Ikea catalogue, delve into the unique design shops, interesting sales, and easy do-it-yourself projects that can be found scattered throughout Toronto.

From the million-record-selling stadium band to that guy who used to sell cassettes on Queen Street, Torontoist readers share their stories of the city's lost-but-not-forgotten musical acts. Today's Revisited review comes from Cameron Gordon.

Doctors urged to use tape measure to see if medical advice is necessary due to excess abdominal fat. I'm all for anti-obesity measures, but surely this is counterproductive? Did we really need another reason to dislike going to the doctor for a checkup?

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend...

Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area.

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the new Quebecois nation but were too afraid to ask, courtesy of Metafilter.

What does the international community say? U.S. President George W. Bush calls the verdict "a milestone in the Iraqi people's effort to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law". The UN and European Union criticize the former Iraqi leader's death sentence. Vatican representative, Cardinal Renato Martino, calls the sentence "eye for an eye vengeance". Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay refused to comment.

Think you're the world's biggest Metric fan? Here's a rare chance to prove it.

If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week.

If you are one of the rare few who has not discovered Craigslist - the eBay to our 1998 - then head over to the site and discover what gets sold when there's no listing fee or bidding. Sure, there's plenty of great stuff to be had (there's no better place to search for an apartment), but be sure not to miss the other stuff your fellow Torontonians are getting rid of:

Local comic hero Chester Brown reimagines Wonder Woman, one of the most iconic characters in comic books. The one-of-a kind original pieces ( prints) will be going up for auction with all proceeds going to the Douglas Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning which will be held later this year.

Torontoist contributor Shari K. pointed us to Kijiji, a bulletin board service launched earlier this year that lets you post messages, jobs, for sale ads, apartment listings and more. This piqued our curiousity. Kijiji (whose name is a typographic nightmare!) seems like a Craigslist clone albeit with a touch of cuteness. The name means village in Swahili, they post photos of the site moderators (like this one) and it seems like a fun, little non-profit trying to do something helpful.

The controversial biopic about Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo, a duo so horrifyingly notorious they serve as their own adjectives, opens here next week. The Globe wonders what kind of shot it has at the box office in these parts, where most of us must be "Homolka'd out" by now, and CTV.ca has some words from the lawyer representing the victims' families. The movie is being touted as "true crime" (as opposed, we suppose, to horror), but we can't help but wonder why this is a story that needed to be told on film.

So tonight is the big opening of the Festival, with certain sections of the city all abuzz with poseurs yammering into cell phones, except now not in Canadian accents! All the staff and hardworking volunteers will be hoping it all goes off without a hitch, terrified and excited at the thought of nearly two weeks of celebrities, parties, networking… oh, and films, I guess. The opening night Gala tonight is Deepak Mehta’s Water, a film shut down by Indian extremists, forcing the director to film the rest of her examination of ostracized Indian widows in Sri Lanka. Torontoist, naturally, doesn’t have tickets, and due to Ontario’s severe laws won’t be scoring any on eBay either, so we're here with a look at the Contemporary World Cinema and Reel to Reel programmes.

Antony Hare, Toronto Artiste