Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset. Probably the most stirring piece of art displayed in Toronto this year, Scott Sørli's "Common Sense Revolution" [PDF] juxtaposed......

Paramedics dispatched to a house fire in west Toronto ended up on the Danforth because of a duplicate street name. Even worse, the fire may have resulted in the death of a 65-year old woman. This begs raises the question: why hasn't the city fixed the problem? The Star reminds us that the city has actually done a study about this problem (there are about 100 or so duplications around the megacity) and done nothing.......

The controversial biopic about Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo, a duo so horrifyingly notorious they serve as their own adjectives, opens here next week. The Globe wonders what kind of shot it has at the box office in these parts, where most of us must be "Homolka'd out" by now, and CTV.ca has some words from the lawyer representing the victims' families. The movie is being touted as "true crime" (as opposed, we suppose, to......

What would be worse: Watching Laura Prepon as Karla Homolka in Deadly, or watching Plague City, a "medical thriller [that] humanizes the struggle of heroic health care workers during SARS crisis"? From the sounds of each, it's like choosing between eating diarrhea or drinking pee. Now that's pretty gross. But if we had to drink pee, we'd probably consume a little drop each day, perhaps adding some to our milk or apple sauce to ease......

The Joel Bender film Deadly, about the infamous Paul Bernardo murder case, isn't going to get too much money in ticket sales out of Queen's Park. Both Premier Dalton McGuinty and Minister Jim Watson have told the press that they will not be seeing the Bender flick on grounds that it attempts to "capitalize on a terrible and horrific tragedy." The movies producers say the film is meant to "promote predator awareness." In line with......