You know all those flashy LED lights on the CN Tower? Apparently they're going to get flashier by this Thursday. U of T is set to approve the plan to build a $53 million Centre for High Performance Sport just west of Varsity Stadium on Bloor Street. Maybe their football team could start training to win a game. A 13-year-old has become a quadriplegic after a gang-related stabbing outside of Christie Station on Friday......

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)......

Perhaps if a Globe copy editor had a 'sometimes baleful glare in her black eyes,' she would have caught this glaring error. Where have all the Globe editors gone, besides Maclean's? At Torontoist, copy editors are about as far off as paychecks that aren't made of rubber, so errors come with the territory. But at the Globe all the editors must just be on summer vacation.......

The people behind So Good Soy Milk must be nuts. This can be the only explanation for the following release: Join all the action today as Dundas Square is transformed into a summer vacation oasis, complete with a beach, tiki bars, live music, and ... cows in Hawaiian shirts. Why, you might ask? With more and more Canadians making the switch from dairy milk to soymilk, many cows are finally enjoying much-deserved vacations. And the......