Lots of Toronto fans are very enthusiastic that David Beckham is going to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Toronto FC reported an immediate increase in ticket sales for the one guaranteed visit by the Galaxy. Wow, this is just like when Pele joined the New York Cosmos! Soccer is here to stay in North America! Terrorists fire a rocket at the American embassy in Athens early Friday morning. As is standard with stories of......

Torstar Corporation officially announced yesterday that "voluntary and involuntary restructurings" would result in the loss of 85 jobs in its newspaper division, which is mostly the Toronto Star. This is in contrast to changes earlier in 2006 that focused on lacklustre sales of the corporation's Harlequin romance novels. This news comes two months after the October resignation of the Toronto Star's publisher, Michael Goldbloom, and the editor-in-chief, Giles Gherson in the wake of declining advertising......

Former Toronto police chief and current OPP commissioner Julian Fantino is being sued for allegedly using a Police Services board case to maliciously advance his own career. The suit accuses Fantino of multiple skullduggeries, including wiretapping the chair of the Police Services Board. Now, I know what you're thinking - "but Julian Fantino was such a nice police chief. Except for the corruption scandals and the racial profiling and the homophobia." TTC considering leasing out......

You’ve heard it here before.  You’ve read it in the New York Times and Spin magazine and countless other publications.  Montreal is where it’s at and the Arcade Fire is THE Canadian band.  Why even bother to offer an adjective, there’s just too many too choose from.  The critically-and-David Bowie-acclaimed Arcade Fire is “Canada’s most intriguing rock band,” as declared by this week’s Time Magazine’s Canadian Edition, on newsstands now. Laura Blue and Hugh Porter......