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May 27, 2008

Ontario will spend more than $2 billion this year to improve provincial roads and highways, widening the QEW and 401 and repairing over 450 kilometres of highway, as well as building and repairing over 100 bridges. In related transit news, the government is spending $5 million on a commission that will study exactly how much cooler cars are than nerdy bicycles, and how many more chicks a guy driving a car gets as opposed......

Continue Reading "Huge Roadwork Budget Announced, No More Plastic Wine Bags, RIP Sydney Pollack"

September 28, 2007

This weekend, the Ex is once again hosting Toronto's popular Clothing Show, the retail sales event offering "the unique, the unusual, and the handcrafted" to the citizenry. Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, this event has been taking in greater numbers over the years because of its talented pool of local designers. And though there's an increasing amount of lazily silk-screened American Apparel T-shirts being touted as "alternative" fashion, it's still the best place to get......

Continue Reading "The Clothing Show: Skip H&M This Season"

July 3, 2007

Sam Sniderman (aka. The Record Man) wants the Sam's building to be sold to Ryerson University. Unfortunately, this does not comply with the conspiracy to turn every store on Yonge Street into a discount shoe outlet or nail salon. Sorry. Toronto couldn't handle a dirty bomb. According to a federal study, "the explosion of a small dirty bomb near the CN Tower would spew radioactivity over four square kilometres, resulting in mass anxiety, a......

Continue Reading "Dropping A Dirty Bomb, I Love The Smell Of Serial Arson In The Morning, Summer School In The City"

May 9, 2007

A group of Grade 12 students caught a fight between a motorist and a cyclist on tape near Queen and Bay. The cyclist, who lost a tooth during the attack, allegedly stopped at a yellow light and prevented the driver from going through the intersection. Remember last year when a similar road rage showdown was captured on film in Kensington Market? (Thanks to Daniel for the tip.) Leaking barrels of toxic waste shut down traffic......

Continue Reading "Angry Motorist Caught On Tape (Again), Lower Don Redesign Revealed, King Herod's Tomb Discovered"

January 18, 2007

Natural resources minister Gary Lunn (left) announces a new $238 million green science fund for development of new energy techologies. Distributed over four years that's a little less than sixty million dollars a year, which will totally be all that's needed to invent fusion reactors, perfect hydrogen fuel cells and give us all the rocket-backpacks we've been waiting for our whole lives. Defence minister finds the money to allow the navy to patrol our......

Continue Reading "Tories Find Some Cash, Which Panhandlers Likely Want, And Farewell To Canada's First Weatherman"

July 6, 2006

The City wants to allow you to add more items to your recycling bin. Proposals are in the works to allow polystyrene, spiral containers (ie. frozen juice concentrate cans) and even plastic bags. The problem is that the city's recycling capacity is maxed out and the City is desperately looking for more cash to increase capacity. Ok, which of you are hoarding green Steamwhistle bottles? The popular brewery is experiencing a bottle shortage and wants......

Continue Reading "More Recycling Please, Jazz Returns To Island Airport and Traffic This Weekend Is Going to Be Bad"

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