With Toronto FC having sold out two straight seasons, the City is discussing expanding BMO Field. Bitter fans of the late Toronto Blizzard were heard muttering, "Where were all these so-called soccer fans fifteen years ago, huh?" The Liberal Party revealed their carbon tax plan yesterday. From an environmental standpoint, the plan is solid, but unfortunately, it has one fatal flaw: Stéphane Dion is the one trying to sell it to Canadians. Plans are......

The younger members of the "Toronto 18" were clueless dupes, according to the RCMP informant on the case. Best line from the story: "At one point, he said, the leaders hid in the bushes and made wolf and bear noises." Thank God we caught them early or they would have been making animal noises outside of Parliament! Ontario's ombudsman says that there's tons of crap the government still does wrong. He also says he......

At an event yesterday to show off Toronto's new street furniture, David Miller praised the exclusive deal with Astral Media. The contract includes a measly 1,000 new bicycle posts, because God knows we don't want to encourage cycling in downtown Toronto. The contract also includes new public toilet installations which are billed as being "self-cleaning," to which Torontoist can only issue a collective "shyeeeeah, right." Oil prices dropped slightly yesterday, but nobody thinks it's......

Honest Ed's turkey giveaway successful like always. Which, Torontoist supposes, is not technically "news," but considering the rest of today's actual news, we felt it appropriate to lead off with a softball. Canada to encourage "constructive" emissions agreement at the Bali climate change summit. Since this is John Baird we're talking about here, expect "constructive" to mean something along the lines of "voluntary," or perhaps "nonexistent." 16-year-old gunned down in doorway of his home.......

Liberals turf scandal-ridden MP. Blair Wilson (West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast) would just like everybody to know that he is very sorry that he impugned the Liberal Party's name with his electoral spending mishaps, although not quite so sorry that he's resigning as a member of Parliament. City capital budget for next year unveiled. A large increase in necessary infrastructure spending is the highlight of the budget, which we still can't pay for and which most voters......

The Liberal Party narrowly wins a minority government in Quebec. The ADQ came in a very close second, and Mario Dumont will be the official opposition leader when the Quebec National Assembly reconvenes. Many voters expressed their dissatisfaction with Premier Jean Charest, expressing their desire for a premier who looks less like Gene Wilder circa See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Toronto residents face a potential 3.8 percent property tax hike this year. City......

Howard Moscoe to jerks: "Hey, stop abusing disabled parking permits!" Bill Gates and Stephen Harper have pledged millions of moolah to the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative. Polls suggest the Conservatives have taken the lead in public popularity, but Harper claims he's in no rush for an election. Today in City Hall: a $6.2 million renovation is rejected and nobody wants to sit nicely for the class photo. Fiddler extraordinaire and Toronto resident Ashley MacIsaac......

In a bizarre and tragic scene yesterday, former Toronto Blue Jay (and current New York Yankee) pitcher Cory Lidle perished after flying his plane into an apartment building in New York. The United States heads to the United Nations hoping for a UN resolution that will impose sanctions on North Korea. And North Korea threatens retaliation if Japan goes ahead and imposes sanctions in response to last weekend’s nuclear test. And George W. Bush denies......

In response to the collapse of an overpass in Quebec, the provincial and municipal government will look at overpasses in this province. They reassure us that none of this province's overpasses have the same design as the one in Quebec and are regularly checked. Just hours after thousands of people stumbled home after looking at hours of art, 30,000 people take part in the CIBC Run For the Cure on Sunday. The annual event raised......

The province is giving the Toronto District School Board some more time to deliver a balanced budget. A team appointed by the ministry will work with school trustees and hopefully deliver a balanced budget. Is Queen's Park haunted? Staffers in the office of the Lt. Governor think so. The Star has a meeting with Michael Ignatieff and learns that Iggy might not run in the next election if he loses his bid for leadership of......

Things get worse for the TTC. In light of GM Rick Ducharme's resignation the TTC have decided to tell him to leave right away instead of waiting around till November. Ducharme is fighting this and threatening to call his lawyers. He also pins the blame for his resignation on interference by TTC Chair Howard Moscoe and even Mayor Miller . Many councillors are now calling for Moscoe to step down. Ducharme is the third TTC......

In the last week three big names in the Liberal leadership race, former deputy PM John Manley, ambassador Frank McKenna and former Newfoundland premier and Captain Canuck Brian Tobin have dropped out. Frank McKenna put it best "I reminded myself this week of my vow upon leaving office - that having escaped the trap, I wouldn't go back for the cheese." He also pointed out that being Liberal Leader means pretty good odds that you'll......

A former editor at the National Post once made the argument that society should stop funding public libraries because it impedes the retail sale of books. Some years later, that right-of-right attitude has trickled down to the Post's impressionable little sister, Dose. For their recent publicity event, Dose sponsored promoters to spray-paint the word "TABLOID" all over the city, including on the side of public libraries! Small business owners were also vandalized, as well as......

The Globe and the Star both report that Michael "The Smartest Prime Minister We Could Have" Ignatieff will be leaving the ivy covered walls of Harvard for the uh, slightly less ivy covered walls of the University of Toronto. Ignatieff, or Iggy as he's known to his close friends, is one of the names being thrown around as a potential future leader of the Liberal Party (next to such names as Bob Rae, Frank MacKenna......

Torontoist will take some time off from long-weekend drinking and head to church. Not to atone for his sins, of which there are plenty, but to check out what the independent literary artists of Toronto have been cooking up while squirelled away in their basement apartments, lofts and bedrooms over the winter at the Small Press Book Fair. Publishers such as Coach House, No Media Kings and Porcupine's Quill will be there and journals/zines and......

A chill wind blows through Toronto's western suburbs this evening as Mississauguans come to terms with the fact that access to the Liberal pork barrel is no longer theirs to enjoy. Famed wild card MP, and apparent vodoun houngan, Carolyn Parrish has been pushed out of the Liberal Party gulfstream with an Acme anvil in her parachute sack. While probably even the least politically-attuned citizen of Badger Rectum, SK was aware that Mme. Parrish's hangin'......