This is pretty much the most amazing news tip that we've ever received. From an anonymous reader:David Miller was at a press conference at the Steamwhistle Brewery today. There were a couple drunk bums there and at one point, they got mad at the mayor and threw beef jerky at him. What a...jerky...thing to do. Maybe they had beef with the mayor. UPDATE (May 24, 5:00 p.m.): The Post has some more details (thanks......

The CBC points out that three people were murdered in a matter of hours this Sunday. First, a man was run over and then hacked to death by machete. Second, a 22-year old man was found by his parents in their backyard. Third, a man was found shot in the head in a Parkdale rooming house. Out of town, a Toronto-raised basketball star is clinging to life in a Pittsburgh hospital after being shot in......

The Toronto District School Board is holding three public consultation nights to ask parents how they should handle the $84.5 million deficit. Jane Pitfield releases her financial platform and we don't spot many surprises: cutting business taxes, a hiring freeze at City Hall, a rollback of the pay raise to councillors. Former city councillor John Adams is joining John Sewell in a bid to unseat Joe Mihevc in Ward 21 (St. Paul's). Through a election......

With Torontoist's past two "sports" entries being titled "Toronto Bike Posts Both Strong and Vulnerable" and "We've Got a Thing 'bout The Post-and-Ring" (the first installment of the two-part series on our city's bike posts), the Adorable Sports Writer feels like it's time to re-capture the floor. And what better time for a comeback. Whether good or bad, not one of our city's pro teams has been without its fair share of headlines over the......

First some bad news. Southern Ontario and Quebec are going to be affected by the remnants of Hurricane Ernesto. The storm will be downgraded to a tropical depression but it'll make this long weekend wet and windy. On the bright side, climatologists and most of us would agree that this summer was pretty good. Fewer smog days, heat waves and rain. It was a bit of a goldilocks summer. The Star covers yesterday's four year......

Everyone writes about the city's revelation that thieves are using two-by-fours to bust up the city's beloved lollipop bike posts. The Star's Betsy Powell, who broke the story last week, has her piece here. The Post marvels at how city staffers who are usually slow to act in August managed to react quickly to the problem. The Sun reports that around eight bikes have been stolen from busted stands in one week alone. Finally you......

This sounds like a potential teen flick, if it already hasn't been made. Four teenage girls case out and rob a west-end clothing boutique, the youngest of them is only 13. Hmmm, it seems that the city is only getting 14 days of public play out of the new lakefront stadium despite the huge amount of public funding going into the project. Seems like a rip-off to us. Jazz's announcement that it would restart service......

The major papers have more on yesterday's shooting at the Westin Harbour Castle. The Post reports that the man was a former drug dealer who was sentenced for trying to smuggle ecstasy into the US. The Star ponders whether luxury hotels are being used by dealers to conduct their business. Det. Sgt. Larry Cowley, who works with Toronto Police's Drug Squad has this to say: "It's a way of camouflaging themselves, really. Instead of doing......

Toronto had eight shootings over the weekend. Eight. Two of them were fatal. The Star focuses in on the night-time shooting outside a 7-11 at College and Spadina. The Sun gives a rundown of the gun violence in the GTA this weekend. A tree grows on Adelaide. The City's tree planters are falling apart. The urban forestry department said they're getting some new ones but they probably won't be enough. Little Portugal lives to cheer......

A shooting near Front and Jarvis yesterday left a 20-year old man clinging to life. Some 16 shots were fired and witnesses claimed they saw three men run off. The shooting and a search by police afterwards locked down two nearby elementary schools. The CBC is reporting that one of the terror suspects currently in custody had been given weapons training by the Canadian military as a reservist. The TTC is holding ">an emergency meeting......

Everyone goes wall-to-wall covering this weekend's arrest of 17 men on terrorism charges. The Globe plasters the fact that the alleged bombers targetted the Peace Tower in Ottawa. One of the other potential targets was the CN Tower and the Sun and CP points out that it would've been hard to topple the CN Tower. The TTC wasn't a target but the Transport minister assures us that we're all safe. More facts are also coming......

Council voted 39-2 in support of the City's 2015 Expo Bid. The next step involves courting the Provincial and Federal governments for funding. Queen's Park and Ottawa are expected to foot a huge chunk of the bill, including $2.8 billion for cleaning up contaminated soil near the lakefront, and a possible $700 million deficit after the event. The TTC is still running despite edicts from the union not to enforce fare collection it seems that......

An update on the Chinatown area murder we mentioned yesterday. Her boyfriend has been charged with second-degree murder and police are saying that he did not have to force his way into the apartment building. The Star's story is here. The Sun gives a few more details and the Post as well. City councillors will be debating the 2015 World's Fair bid today. Council is expected to endorse the bid despite the fact that a......

Elected municipal officials across Toronto now have four-year terms thanks to Queen's Park. Citing the increased complexity of municipal affairs the province rushed through a bill lengthening municipal government terms. The reform divided council and raised criticism from local activists like former mayor John Sewell. Anti-poverty groups are peeved at Jane Pitfield and want her off the city's homeless advisory committee. They're angry over her desire for a by-law that bans panhandling. Residents near the......

Christopher Hume laments the destruction of the Inn on the Park, a great example of Modernist architecture. It's being replaced with an auto dealership. Hume points fingers at a City Hall unwilling to stand up to business interests, and negligent in protecting the City's architectural history. The Post weighs in here. In other building news the Bay-Adelaide project might start up again. The project was first started in the 1980s but the property market fizzled......

A driver of a black Grand Am cut off a TTC bus and took shots at three people waiting for the bus. Fortunately no one was hit. Sadly, the shooting happened just blocks away from a memorial for a young woman killed earlier in February. The Star has the story here and the Sun doesn't get left behind. A couple of people are going to ruin garage sales for the rest of us. The city......

A TTC janitor might just be subject of one ot those TTC employee ads after spotting a four-year old boy that was snatched and Amber-Alerted. A 34-year old woman was also arrested. The Post reports on what happened to the Redpath Sugar sign on the waterfront. Bob Rae and Carolyn Bennett are both now officially in the Liberal Leadership race. A car ran into a streetcar on Queen and River injuring three people. Spacing Wire......

The jury deliberating on the Lisa Posluns case was withheld some very gruesome evidence on the history of accused rapist/murderer Nelson DeJesus. The Star has the details here, and the Sun doesn't get left behind either. Members of Toronto's Chinese community protested over Rogers' attempts to bring a number of stations owned by the Chinese government to Canada. The protesters argue that the stations are propaganda, Rogers argues that they're merely trying to serve the......

The Post is reporting that Mayor Miller is floating the idea of a no gun left behind type law, where gun collectors would be required to store their goodies at secure locations. The article says "the Mayor has asked city lawyers and the police to determine whether the municipality has the "legal ability" to require individuals to store their weapons at a secure facility such as a gun club." Perhaps, but will it help?......