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READING: Before his band's show tonight at the Music Gallery, Drew Daniel of electronic duo Matmos will be reading from his tribute to Throbbing Gristle's album 20 Jazz Funk Greats (as part of the 33 1/3 book series). This Ain't the Rosedale Library (86 Nassau Street), 1 p.m., FREE.

Canadian Bar Association demands that Stephen Harper negotiate with the United States to return Omar Khadr to Canada. The country's largest legal organization (and Khadr's own American military lawyer, for that matter) states that Khadr will not get a fair trial in the United States, which is obvious. Also obvious: the likelihood of Harper doing exactly dick about it.

According to an anonymous reader, the White Stripes are playing a free surprise show, right now (3:30 p.m.) at Yonge & Grosvenor. No need to get out yer wallets for tonight's show at the Amphitheatre after all...

City budget passes: 7.9 billion smackers for the year. Noteworthy: city councillors decided that keeping their free golf passes was extremely important. I don't think most of Rob Ford's proposed budget cuts are anything but hamfisted, but come on, City Council—pay for your own goddamned golf game, willya?

If you picked up a copy of this week's Eye, you may have noticed that the text along the bottom of the cover claims that "It's official! Eye Weekly has the largest circulation of any urban weekly in Canada!*" Yipee!

Ontario Lottery Corporation recalls over a million scratch lotto cards after a customer complains you can see a winner without scratching. Between this and the retailers-stealing-jackpot-tickets flap a few months ago, it is probably even odds that every Ontario lotto jackpot in the last five years has been won by one guy in Whitby named Fred.

All the news outlets are talking about the TTC strike but lots of other things happened on the weekend.

Toronto doctor Gino Bucchino will be representing Italian ex-pats in the Italian parliament after winning a tight election. He'll be representing all of North America.

The Metro Toronto Convention Centre is currently hosting the Toronto Star Annual Golf & Travel Show, which will be running until Sunday at 6:00pm. Come down and demo that new set of clubs you’ve been looking at, or plan that perfect golf vacation.