Kincardine-born, Mississauga-bred, Toronto-based, and Berlin-bound, Joel Gibb is the musical and managerial head of The Hidden Cameras, the fantastic and always well-populated music collective whose members have included Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Reg Vermue (Gentlemen Reg), Laura Barrett, Maggie MacDonald (Republic of Safety), Dave Meslin (founder of the Toronto Public Space Committee), Bob Wiseman, Steve Kado (founder of Blocks Recording Club, member of Barcelona Pavilion and Ninja High School), Ohad Benchetrit (Do Make Say......

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset. When Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion decided to sound off about the federal government's lack of funding for municipalities this......

A massive fire at a townhouse complex on Jarvis Street near Mutual resulted in the death of an unidentified victim on Saturday night. Construction on the townhouses had been abandoned for ten months and the building was being inhabited by squatters, says a resident at the adjacent Radio City condo tower. Novelist Norman Mailer died this weekend. Kim Ruehl at Seattlest has a nice eulogy: "He was, as most great novelists are, a complete......

Ontario's conservation officer suggests the unbanning of clotheslines. Did anybody even know that clotheslines were banned in certain parts of Ontario? Why would anybody ban a clothesline anyway? Clothes flapping in the wind are aesthetically pleasing! Pakistani police detain Benazir Bhutto in her home. Officials denied that this was a house arrest, claiming instead that they were just vigorously enforcing Pakistan's anti-trespassing laws, and that the five thousand of her supporters that they rounded up......

Bad Buildings recently had the unusual ambivalent fortune (that is to say, neither good nor bad; we're reserving judgment lest you get the impression we're an urbanity snob—heaven forbid) of traveling north on Hurontario Street in Mississauga, past the intersection of Burnamthorpe Road. For the urbanity snobs among you, this would be Mississauga downtown—a nifty bit of urban planning that says, hey, we CAN build a "city" out of nuthin'. (Note ambivalent tone torquing only-and-ever-so-slightly)......

Is Hazel McCallion's grip on Missisauga politics slipping? Possibly! However, McCallion's plan to outlive all potential challengers and firmly establish herself as Permanent Mayor of Missisauga by 2243 remains on track, thanks to her mastery of the ancient art of alchemy and her possession of the Philosopher's Stone. New report says Ontario's universities are woefully underfunded and in desperate need of serious reinvestment. Hey, maybe they could sell more advertising space to corporate donors! I......

LOCATION: Centennial Park, Etobicoke (TTC #48 Rathburn Bus from Royal York station) [MAP] TIME: Early registration is 9:30 AM; 2.5 km and 5 km walk begins at 11 AM. Family events throughout the day. It is recognized less for its proper name than it is for its most notorious and dangerous characteristic: insatiable hunger. Prader-Willi syndrome is a genetic disorder that can result in poor muscle-tone, learning deficits, a high pain threshold, as well......

A driver of a black Grand Am cut off a TTC bus and took shots at three people waiting for the bus. Fortunately no one was hit. Sadly, the shooting happened just blocks away from a memorial for a young woman killed earlier in February. The Star has the story here and the Sun doesn't get left behind. A couple of people are going to ruin garage sales for the rest of us. The city......

The Star reports that the TTC and eight other crime enforcement agencies have made another arrest in a huge scam involving fake TTC tokens. Mississauga mayor/overlord (overlady?) Hazel McCallion is indestructible. Her car hits a light pole and not only does she escape serious injury she also doesn't miss a beat and keeps on working. Councillor Karen Stintz accuses the city of prostituting itself to developers. Which now begs the question, who's the city's pimp?......

Unlike Hazel McCallion who will descend like the angel of death on callous litterbuggers, our mayor prefers a softer, nicer approach to littering. Including this Friday's 20-Minute Toronto Makeover. At 2:00 pm tommorow the Mayor is asking Torontonians of all stripes to clean up their community for 20 minutes. Torontoist would do this everyday if the mayor agrees to wear a cape tommorow during his cleanup. To make things more interesting the Royal Society of......

Dave Miller isn't the only baller in the GTA. Mayor Hazel McCallion of Mississauga will put on a B-Ball clinic with Thatcher-like authority tomorrow for the 2nd annual 2005 adidas All Canadian Basketball Game. Hazel will throw up the jump ball at 2 P.M. at Mississauga's Hersey Centre. The roster is full of up-and-coming hoopsters (hoopsters?) from Canadian high-schools, with coaches from basketball friendly universities. Tickets starting from $10 are on sale now at all......