The Star reports this morning about U of T political science student Evon Reid (pictured). Reid applied for a job at Queen's Park as a media analyst earlier this month and was waiting to hear back when an e-mail from Aileen Siu, a part-time contract employee (whose contract is probably about to end prematurely), landed in his inbox on Friday morning. Siu's e-mail simply read: "This is the ghetto dude that I spoke to before."......

Torstar Corporation officially announced yesterday that "voluntary and involuntary restructurings" would result in the loss of 85 jobs in its newspaper division, which is mostly the Toronto Star. This is in contrast to changes earlier in 2006 that focused on lacklustre sales of the corporation's Harlequin romance novels. This news comes two months after the October resignation of the Toronto Star's publisher, Michael Goldbloom, and the editor-in-chief, Giles Gherson in the wake of declining advertising......

In Rome, at least 1 person has died, and 10 more have been seriously injured in a subway collision involving two trains. It has been over 10 years since the Russel Hill incident here in Toronto. The Toronto Star's editor-in-chief Giles Gherson and publisher Michael Goldbloom resigned on Monday. Goldbloom wrote about the declining newspaper industry in his resignation letter. Canada's prison system is systemically discriminatory against aboriginals, according to the ombudsman for inmates. Also,......