If you're like us (and, God willing, you’re not), then you're utterly exasperated by the ongoing steroid scandal in Major League Baseball. You're puzzled that the United States Congress has nothing better to do than to interrogate multimillionaire athletes who might've used performance-enhancing drugs. Moreover, you're wondering why, this past Wednesday morning, no fewer than three Canadian sports networks were showing live coverage of the Roger Clemens hearing. Is it really that important? Regardless,......

Torontoist Environment Editor Chris Tindal is currently engaged in a federal by-election campaign. This weekly column is an attempt to offer a "behind the scenes" glimpse into what it's like to be that mysterious Other: a politician. Successful election campaigns require money, and that funding obviously has to come from donors. I've noticed a number of misconceptions about how political campaigns are funded, probably due to the fact that election financing laws have changed frequently......

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve. DSC_0271-2copycopy.jpg BY WHOAABUDDY RELATED ON TORONTOIST: PhotoTO: Fog in the City, The Daily Photoist: August 13, 2007, Fog In Toronto (Again), Fog In Toronto......

Photo by alexindigo from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The leaves are falling; the days are getting colder and the nights longer. All this can only mean one thing. It's hockey season. In Toronto, hockey is virtually synonymous with the Maple Leafs. Which is fine if you're into teams with questionable goaltending, aging stars and $45 nosebleed seats. Luckily for us, the Leafs aren't the only game in town. Quality hockey, pleasantly free of suits......

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve. WalktoWork_070807-3.jpgBY RYAN COLEMAN—08/07/2007, 5:01 p.m. RELATED ON TORONTOIST: Pimp My Skyline, Fog In Toronto (Again), Fog In Toronto......

The trash can pictured is not a City-approved waste receptacle. It was an advertising tool for ck IN2U, Calvin Klein’s newest fragrance, and its stay at the corner of Dundas and Victoria Streets long outlasted its welcome. Branded with the catchphrase "what are u in 2?" with no mention of the fragrance itself or of Calvin Klein, eighty faux trash cans were distributed across Montreal and Toronto as part of the ck IN2U teaser......

Daniel Handler! In Toronto! You may know him better as children’s writer Lemony Snicket of A Series of Unfortunate Events fame, but he has written three books for adults not as Snicket's "Handler," but quite wonderfully as himself. He'll be talking to charming local writer Jason McBride (who Torontoist may have seen in The Annex last week--belated hullo, Jason! If you weren’t Jason, greetings to the gent who is passing himself off as Jason quite......

City Council wants to implement a bird-friendly rating system for Toronto buildings to promote bird safety in Toronto. "This is not a bird-brained idea; it's good public policy," says Councillor Joe Mihevc. "Bird-watching is the second most popular hobby for people, after gardening." Who can argue? Birds flying into skyscraper windows is one of the Top 50 Most Depressing Things About Living In Toronto. Toronto police are cracking down on bad driving in Chinatown......

Recently, the Toronto Sun reported that over 500 pit bulls have been killed since the breed was banned sixteen months ago. With temperatures in Toronto well below freezing, those still lucky enough to be alive are suffering due to their salt-ridden and frozen paws, unable to lick them because of the muzzles on their faces. The pit bull police were back in court in December, presenting new evidence that all pit bulls are "inherently......

In the window of Rita di Cesare's Toronto studio, there's a naked mannequin. For a first-time visitor, it's a temporary shock: You avert your eyes, looking at the studio's teal walls while thinking that someone in front of you is undressing. But it's apropos for the local headquarters of fashion label Nude Clothes. Designer di Cesare hit the scene a few years ago, her label the happy byproduct of an industrial design internship. Her......

Hey Absolut isn't it enough that you can put up billboards at will on almost any building in the city, advertise in the bathroom of every bar, and buy space in the back of every magazine, now you have to go and hijack our sidewalks with these chalk sidewalk ads? We know that street teams have been hard at work stencilling busy streets with ads for bands, dance nights and even books. We think......

A promotional Dipset mini-hummer? In Toronto? TOist: Diiiip-set! Dipset Guy: What's up! TOist: When's Juelz coming back? Dipset Guy: Couple months. TOist: We went to his last show here - he played for 20 minutes and did the same song twice... Dipset Guy: That was a promo show. He'll be back in about a month for another show. This time he'll play for an hour. TOist: Diiiip-set!......

Restaurants: un-Super Model Pizza...

The sound of lips smacking echoed through downtown on Saturday afternoon when dozens of women participated in Toronto's first Kiss-In since 1976. To show support for two Montreal women attacked for kissing each other in public, female kissers of Toronto flooded the streets with a smooching protest. The women, Joelle Perras and Brook Morrison, were assaulted in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal district when they stopped to kiss on the corner. Following news of the Jan. 21......