Honest Ed's turkey giveaway successful like always. Which, Torontoist supposes, is not technically "news," but considering the rest of today's actual news, we felt it appropriate to lead off with a softball. Canada to encourage "constructive" emissions agreement at the Bali climate change summit. Since this is John Baird we're talking about here, expect "constructive" to mean something along the lines of "voluntary," or perhaps "nonexistent." 16-year-old gunned down in doorway of his home.......

Toronto's tap water places third in blind taste test. So the next time somebody from New York tells you how awesome it is there, you can say "well, sure, but our water is delicious." Professional wrestler Chris Benoit found dead along with wife and son. Police are investigating it as a double murder/suicide. For those of you who do not follow wrestling, the "Crippler," born in Montreal and raised in Edmonton, was quite possibly......

Remember when, if someone was shot on the streets of the GTA, neighbours would appear on TV saying something like "I'm shocked—you just don't expect things like this to happen here?" Those were the good old days in Kensington Market. Violent crime has always been part of the area (usually it's attributed to drugs or alcohol), but a spate of seemingly random shootings has neighbours a little freaked out. On May 15, a 24-year-old......

Early Sunday morning, a 19-year-old man was found shot near Carr St. and Denison Ave. That afternoon, Carr was still closed while investigators combed through nearby yards looking for clues. At the scene, about 18 little neon green pylons covered bullet casings and other pieces of evidence. We told one of the policeman that, around 2 a.m., we heard kids lighting off fireworks. "That's what the call went out as," said the officer. But when......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like......

Hey, it's snowing. Crazy! A tangled web of relationship intrigue baffles the investigators of a Markham double homicide. After reading this article three times, I still can't figure out who was married to who and who was having what affairs... ...and on that note, Happy Valentine's Day. With a similarly macabre look at love, a late Neolithic couple found buried together outside of Mantua will not be separated because, well, they're just too adorable.......

As Best of 2006 lists wind down, First of 2007 lists are just getting started. After Toronto's post-celebration hangover wore off, the city took stock of its first firsts of the year. In Scarborough, a Malvern resident was arrested in relation to the First Homicide of 2007, and the newborn son of Patrick Thanaratnam and wife was awarded the honour of First GTA Baby of 2007. Kitchener teen and Newcastle United defender David Edgar celebrated......

Ed Mirvish: theatre tycoon, city hero and...turkey giveaway guru? People lined up overnight outside Honest Ed's for the 19th Annual Turkey Giveaway on Sunday. Now approaching age 93, Ed himself was sadly not in attendance, but son David Mirvish took over greeting duties. City Homicide #64, if you're keeping track: 26-year-old Mississauga resident, Dennis Kwame Oppong, died after being shot in the head near Front and Spadina early Sunday morning. The victim had been convicted......

Another day, another mayoral debate, and Torontoist was liveblogging it from University of Toronto's Hart House (See the Star's non-liveblogging take, as well). Kevin Clark crashed the debate, Pitfield wants to drop the voting age to 16, and all of the candidates debating agreed that landed immigrants should be allowed to vote in municipal elections. Porter Airlines had an uneventful first day of business. According to various reports, the flights had lots of room available,......

A seven (!!) alarm fire destroyed a building at Queen and Sherbourne. The building was occupied by a paint store which had been there since 1913. Firefighters rushed to the scene to stop the fire from spreading. King Jong Il is "very sorry" about the nuclear test. Also, the leader of Korea expressed sentiments such as "it would totally be cool" if he could have "an awesome sleepover party" sometime in the near future......

Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up. Chicagoist had fall on their mind as they made squash and fudge, read "House of Leaves" and ">tried to figure out what's next for the Cubs. Not fall related, but still of utmost concern, the whole skinny black pants thing. Torontoist fought off an evil scourge of raccoons and went to go see who would......

The big story today is the three dead found on 1he 19th floor of the Delta Chelsea. Police were called in around 4:30 am and discovered the bodies of two men and a woman, all had stab wounds. The floor has been sealed off but the hotel remains open. A shooting of a Scarborough teenager on Friday has led police to lay more than 100 charges on a dozen people in the surrounding area. The......

The Star does a little digging and pulls out the startling fact that 21 of the 32 accused murderers this year were under court orders. Toronto homicide detectives are concerned that so many people accused of violent and gun crimes are able to get bail so easily. Police and residents near Keele and Sheppard are on guard after a brutal sexual assault last night outside an apartment building in the area. School Trustees have given......

Inquests have been ordered on the death of two patients in the care of Toronto mental health institutes. There are suspicions that these patients were neglected. Under the coroner's act, inquests aren't mandatory in the case of deaths under psychiatric care. These incidents might change that. The city's 25th homicide victim may have been killed by an angry ex-girlfriend. A 19-year old woman turned herself in near Danforth and Eglinton. There are others involved in......

David Suzuki gives the Ontario government big ups on its new energy plan. The plan will buy energy from sustainable sources at a premium, hopefully acting as a catalyst to these energy sources in the province. The tractors are still circling Queen's Park, the Tories are screaming about squirrels having sex, but Dalton's Liberals seem to be closing their ears like studious geeks before a mid-term blocking out obnoxious roommates. The province is boosting......

The Star reports that a man's body was found in a shopping cart on Dentonia Park Ave near Victoria Park and Danforth Aves. The story echoes the discovery of a woman's body in an alley in Parkdale that led to the police instituting a controversial policy of asking to search homes of Parkdale residents. The Star story ends in what might be the understatement of this young year: They have so far stopped short of......

Leave it to Torontoist to quell the anxieties surrounding violence on the streets of our city. In the wake of two more murders in the Greater Toronto Area, Torontoist would like to remind certain police services and right-wing newspapers that text-messaging has had little effect on murder rates. As of this post, homicides are down from 2003. Conversely, text-messaging use is up. BlackBerry-toting aside, the truth remains that Toronto's murder rates pale in comparison to......