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Each week, Torontoist shows off the most interesting, creative, and cool submissions to our Torontoist Flickr Pool. We're especially partial to photos that show our city in a new light, highlight a recent event, and remind us why we live here. Join the Flickr pool and show us what you've got. How's the view up there?BY ~EVIDENCE~ Canadian Heat WaveBY SNIDERSCION North side glass bridgeBY UWAJEDI Toronto On a StickBY SWILTON Toronto Is... Ice. #2BY...

It's hard to imagine a better of way of getting people to want information than by trying to keep it from them. That's why the federal government probably shot itself in the foot last month when, according to the CanWest News Service, Conservative MPs "abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S." Apparently (and this is still in the words of the news report), the Conservative committee chair Leon Benoit "threw down his pen, declaring, 'This meeting is adjourned,' and stormed out [of the room]" just moments after the committee's witness predicted that the government's plan to further integrate U.S. and Canadian energy supplies would mean that, "Canadians will be left 'to freeze in the dark.'"

Tonight, the Toronto Public Space Committee's Streets to Screens series wraps up with a screening of Ron Mann's Rochdale College doc Dream Tower:

In the second of this series, we've picked another five "must see" events -- this time from Nuit Blanche's Zone B. All these activities are happening in and around the OCAD building. Unless specified, the events we've picked run for the full 12 hours, so you can visit them at any point in the night.

This Saturday marks the third anniversary of the historic Ontario Court of Appeal verdict on same-sex/equal marriage. The ruling ordered the province to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples in Ontario , as well as paved the way for equal marriage from coast to coast to coast to the American Border.

Students at West Toronto Collegiate are being tested for tuberculosis after one of their classmates tested positive for the lung disease. Health officials are just being cautious and don't think TB has spread.

Ed Drass, transit reporter and advocate, is organizing a transit forum to happen in Toronto this November. If you’d like to get involved, tune into the yahoo group's list or email Ed directly. Meanwhile, on your daily commute, check out Ed’s In Transit column every Tuesday and Thursday in Metro.

A dire situation dictates dire actions, not overblown reactions. Toronto City Hall, sadly, seems prone to the latter this month.