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For the last two weeks, the area around Keele Street and Bloor Street West has been plastered with a bizarre leaflet about the life and legacy of the cat Feliche Paradisis-Zoetmulder. It seems that Feliche was a special cat. In July 2008, he was found starving near a cottage in Wasaga Beach by two roommates, Vicky Paradisis and Charissa Zoetmulder. He was then brought back to Toronto, where he lived for four months until he was tragically hit by a car in mid-November.

Beginning this Thursday, the fifteenth annual Junction Arts Festival will be swarming the streets with an entourage of innovative musicians, performers, and visual artists hailing from Canada, Denmark, Brussels, and the United States.

MP Peggy Nash and MPP Cheri DiNovo protest the closing of Toronto's swimming pools.

Health Canada reports that over half of Canadian kids aged five to 17 are not physically active enough for optimal growth and development. The number of overweight boys ballooned from 15 percent in 1981 to 35.4 percent in 1996; the percentage of overweight girls expanded from 15 percent to 29.2 percent. In less than a generation, obesity in children tripled. As anyone who has tried to lose a few kilos knows, it is easier to prevent overweight and obesity than to treat it.

At left: stills from Dr. Strangelove. At right: re-creations by Kristan Horton.