People are scamming the city's parking machines to the tune of $1 million per year. Apparently you can use an expired pre-paid credit card to park for free because the machines don't check to see if the cards have credit left on them. The Toronto Parking Authority has known about this since 1998, but hasn't done anything because what the hell—it's only money. Federal industry minister Jim Prentice isn't happy about cellular companies charging......

This year to date has seen the wettest June and July ever in Toronto, and we're only a couple of centimetres of rain away from breaking the rain record for the whole summer. That should shut up the "global wetting" skeptics. The newly populist Dalton McGuinty did some rabble-rousing in London Ontario yesterday, urging Ontarians to protest the fact that the national wealth equalization system sucks some $21 billion out of our increasingly penurious......

Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice has demanded a meeting with the honchos from Bell and Telus so they can explain to him exactly why they decided to charge their pay-per-use users 15¢ per received text message, calling the decision "ill thought-out." Canadian technology users are consequently planning to demand a meeting with Minister Prentice to ask him to explain ACTA and Bill C-61, calling them "ill thought-out." Recently released documents have revealed that Canadian......