If you like crowds, candy, and Christmas, but hate––absolutely hate––having time off of work, celebrating holidays at the proper time of year, and snow, this weekend's Santa Claus Parade is your month-too-early Mecca. Now in its hundred and third year, the parade will begin on Sunday, November 18, at 12:30 p.m., traveling from Bloor and Christie, east along Bloor to Avenue, south on Avenue, around Queen's Park, and further south along University to Queen.......

Chicago prosecutors expected to ask that the book be thrown at Conrad Black. HA HA HA ROT IN JAIL YOU UNKIND GENTLEMAN [Needless to say, the previous two words originally read...uh...differently. They were swears!—Ed.]. Sorry, that was not very objective. Please amend the previous sentence to read "hee hee hee rot in jail you freaking aardvark." In other news, he may also go bankrupt, making this officially the best news story of the year so......

Gosh, it’s just blummin’ all change at the festival this year, with not only new programme Vanguard for you hip young things, but the new Sprockets Family Zone for even younger things (some people call these things “children.”) It makes sense! The kids might get their own festival (Sprockets) but they ran a matinee gala last year (the horsey Dreamer) and we believe they have done for a while, so expanding the festival to feature......

Halifax has Pizza Corners, and Toronto has Pole Corners. This is a photo of the north pole (not North Pole) looking across the street at the south poles (there are three useless poles, with the original poley now becoming a street sign). Say what you will about the city of Toronto, but they don't "pole" any punches when it comes to street maintenance. Of course, with all these random poles, they could just be......