Gas prices in Toronto are at $1.09 or more a litre today, reflecting all-time record oil prices of over US$108 per barrel. For all our driving readers, it might cheer you up to consider that it's still cheaper to fill up your car with gas than say, orange juice or Diet Pepsi. By the way, if you do decide to go with orange juice, remember that the pulp-free kind is less likely to gum up......

Full disclosure: Torontoist kind of loves Billy Joel. At the age of 8, we memorized almost all the lyrics to We Didn't Start the Fire and chanted it regularly around the house - we had no idea what "children of thalidomide" meant, but we sure liked the sound of "space monkey mafia." We occasionally drift into daydreams about being the Uptown Girl of someone's dreams who wants us Just the Way We Are so we......

Bill 602P? Liberal Tony Schnell (NB)? Taxing email messages? If you received this email, wouldn't you ask the same questions? Apparently not. A small 'c' conservative email hoax is still catching some gullables with the fabricated story that the Canadian government - led of course by Tony Schnell - is imposing a tax on emails. The generic "help us" hoax email cites a fictitious Liberal MP 'Tony Schnell (NB)' and a Toronto Star editorial in......