Gas prices are up three cents a litre as the price of oil crossed the psychological threshold of US$100 a barrel for the first time ever. Upon hearing the news, Stephen Harper flew to the Alberta oil sands and gave a stirring speech about how victory would soon be his, whereupon he was roundly cheered by all the hosts of Mordor. A low-level mobster claims that in 1974 he was tasked with assassinating Pierre......

Researchers doing one of the shittiest jobs in the nation have gathered up schoolyard cigarette butts and determined that teens are smoking large numbers of contraband cigarettes. The study was funded by the Canadian Convenience Stores Association, which believes we should protect our kids by ensuring they only indulge in healthy store-bought smokes. Police are optimistic that security cameras in the Entertainment District will provide evidence in Monday night's wild shootout. The cameras could have......

Who's up for a trip through time? While an H.G. Wells-style contraption or fourth dimension-smashing telephone box are not available in the consumer market, there are simpler methods of going back through time. All that's required are a date and the arcane knowledge of knowing how to load a microfilm reader. Toronto has a rich newspaper history, with no fewer than three dailies at a time battling for the city's readers. This series of......

It's 4/20 and you know what that means! No, not the birth of Toller Cranston, the anniversary of the first Pasteurization test, Pierre Trudeau's succession as Prime Minister or the first day of the Sun of Taurus. (OK, well, technically, also, yes, all of those things.) It's time to watch that More Or Les video again for the first time,'cause it's finally on YouTube. Only Book TV found it appropriate for Canadian airwaves, so you......