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There are a few good reasons to check out C’mon’s CD Release Party this Friday, September 21, at the Horseshoe Tavern. The most important, however, is to watch bassist Katie Lynn Campbell do that insane thing where it appears like her body is about to snap in half she’s leaning so effing far back. That is how rock ‘n’ roll C’mon are; severed spines be damned! Among the other reasons to be kickin’ it at Queen and Spadina this Friday are Ian Blurton’s beard, the presence of new solid drummer Dean Dallas Bentley, and the fact that C’mon are one of the loudest bands in this city. Like Hogtown’s own Motörhead, but with less warts and proper microphone technique. Sort of.

Civil engineers say that Ontario bridges are at risk. Short, short version: we're not in as bad shape as the Americans on this front, but we need more strenuous testing of existing bridges since most of ours were built in the 1960s and have expected design lives of about fifty years, so we're entering the beginnings of a replacement cycle.

Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, and Gordon Brown takes over. For those not familiar with British politics, an analogy: remember when Jean Chretien stepped down and Paul Martin took over as Prime Minister, and everybody agreed that although it was clearly time to go, wow, was Paul Martin boring or what? It's like that, except pretend that Paul Martin was even more boring.

CityNews and the Toronto Star are reporting that Canada's Wonderland has closed its free-fall ride, the Drop Zone (named after the Wesley Snipes skydiving movie) due to a grisly accident on a similar ride in the States.

Hamilton okays plan to adopt the Nashville Predators. Of course, the question of what their new name will be remains unanswered. Bear in mind the last time anybody got to suggest names for an Ontario sports team, one of the serious final choices was "Terriers." Because nothing says "bad-ass sports team" like a yappy little dog.

. It features Ex-Superfriendz front man Matt Murphy as a fictional, possibly departed, Canadian country star.

Le Mercredi Mixtape returns. Yep, it's *sixeyes sharing music on Torontoist with you the Torontoist readers. So, put a plug in it, plug in and listen up while Torontoist plugs some recent discoveries and some favourites.

For all you Firkin loving, Molson drinking, Tragically Hip listening, Oh Canada singing folks who can't live without hockey, you'll be glad to hear that Canada has advanced to the Semi-finals of the IIHF World Championships following a 5-4 victory over Slovakia on Thursday afternoon. The Canadians completed the comeback triumph with 4:22 left in the third period, as locked-out Boston Bruin captain Joe Thornton found the back of the net over former Nashville Predator yet still locked-out netminder, Jan Lasak's glove.