The Star reports that many nightclubs are flouting city bylaws by allowing patrons to smoke inside their premises. I wonder if that's really the most pressing problem down in Toronto's little Gomorrah on Richmond Street. The city has chopped down nineteen healthy trees in a park near Don Mills and Leslie in a strategy designed to reduce teen loitering and drug dealing by making parts of the park more visible from the road. No......

“You can try to take away my coffees and my creams. Go ahead. I’m still here. I’m still going to get re-elected." Councillors Giorgio Mammoliti and Paul Ainslie scrapped it out yesterday in city hall over free coffee. The delicious roasted bean elixir is offered free to city councillors and costs taxpayers $20,000 per year. The Art Gallery of Ontario announced a landmark donation of $10-million from twenty of Toronto's most prominent Italian-Canadian families.The......

This is going to be one big downer of a news roundup today, folks. Some seriously sad news from our sister site, Phillyist, where co-Editor Star C. Foster passed away suddenly yesterday. We'll miss her. Be sure to lend your support for her friends and family in the comments on Phillyist. An 11-year-old boy in Scarborough died after falling through the ice trying to try save his 15-year-old friend's life. The 15-year-old boy is......

Mississauga City Council candidate, Adnan Hashmi, has been charged with impersonating a police officer after his rival, Ishrat Nasim claimed he tried to pressure her landlady into denying she lived in Ward 10, which would make her ineligible to run. All lies, says Hashmi. A crown attourney has labeled former social worker Sara Villella a "merchant of death" for her role in smuggling guns to Scarbroough street gang, the Malvern Crew in 2004. The president......