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The Toronto Star is repenting. On Tuesday, they published "Toronto making me mad as hell" by Vinay Menon, one of the most head-shakingly bad excuses for an article we've ever read in a major daily. To wit:

The Toronto Star. July 18, 2007. Joe Fiorito column: The other day I noticed a Red Rocket, defaced from stem to stern with a depiction of a bottle of vodka and the comely legs of a party girl whose dress was hiked up around her thighs. Let me count the ways this is wrong. But first, my bona fides. I grew up during the sexual revolution. I also learned a variety of useful lessons...

We bet few of you have been to the Toronto Archives. We didn’t even know where it was until last night, when we attended theToronto Book Awards. But stepping into the foyer to be greeted by a room covered in photos and maps of our city’s history, it struck us at just how fitting it is to hold the ceremony here -- books honoured for their fluent portraits of Toronto stories in a building that houses the same.

The Coalition for Municipal Change, a citizens group that rallied together to unseat Anne Johnston and elect Karen Stintz in her place, is scouring the city for candidates to take down Kyle Rae and Howard Moscoe. We've expressed our dislike of these two councillors before. Particularly Moscoe, whose incompetence at the head of the TTC has caused numerous debacles. But if the replacement is another Karen Stintz clone we hope that the Coalition falls flat on its face. In this case we're better off with the devil we know.

The police made over 100 arrests and are expected to lay 1000 (nope, we didn't add an extra digit there) charges in their huge raid on the Jamestown Crew yesterday.

Today Joe Fiorito launched his new book, Union Station, at the Nicholas Hoare book store.

Radio Room snuck out early to go trick-or-treating that afternoon?

Watching or listening to the CBC right now is painful for Torontoist. We quite like our nation's public broadcaster and seeing all these unfamiliar faces, anchors with British accents and endless repeats is making the news and Cancon junkie in us really depressed. And what's with the game with no commentary, granted it is just the CFL but I don't know if we can watch an entire hockey season like this.