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Wow, it’s a critically acclaimed, shot-in-Toronto movie! And you can’t really tell it was shot here! Reel Toronto lives for these rare moments.

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FILM: It's Family Day, and the NFB Cinema is celebrating with two free programs featuring a great mix of new and classic award-winning shorts. Screening at 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m., program one features The Log Driver's Waltz, Léon in Wintertime, The Sweater, and The Danish Poet (winner of the 2007 Oscar for best animated short). Program two (screening at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.) features an equally strong lineup, with Asthma Tech, Glasses, The Dingles, and The Cat Came Back. As always, NFB Mediatheque also offers thousands of titles that can be viewed any time at their digital viewing stations. NFB Mediatheque (150 John Street), various times, FREE.

GREETINGS: Since the days of fur trading, it has been tradition on this continent to pay your respects to the Master of the Fort. In current parlance, that means citizens of Toronto—if they can get out of bed—can go to City Hall today for the Mayor’s Levee. Mayor David Miller and city councillors will be available to exchange greetings with the public. The City will also provide refreshments and unnamed local entertainment. Toronto City Hall (100 Queen Street West), 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m., FREE.

        

Jeff Chapman may have passed away in 2005, but Pete Forde is keeping his legacy of urban infiltration alive. Inspired by a Torontoist article on the deserted Canadian Domain Ride at the Toronto Zoo, Forde and two friends who wish to remain anonymous trekked from one end of the line to the other. An amateur photographer, Forde has decided to document the ongoing journey for a project he's titled 40 Days on the Monorail. Every weekday, he uploads a new picture portraying the rail line in a different way. The pictures are stunning: Forde captures the sense of dereliction through a combination of Polaroids, digital and analog shots, and an awesome video. He wants to showcase an aspect of the city that isn’t—and shouldn’t be—accessible to everyone, sharing the wonder he feels without promoting it as an alt-tourist destination.

Stephen Harper's Conservatives are running ads on the radio and at some gas pumps asserting that a proposed Liberal carbon tax is a "trick" and a tax grab. Firing back, Liberal Environment critic David McGuinty said that the Tories are in the pocket of the oil industry. No need to to fight, people; no doubt you're both right.

In the fall of 1997, the Metro Toronto Zoo had something of a clearance sale, divesting itself of merchandise branded "Metro Toronto Zoo." On January 1st, the Megacity would be coming, the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto would be no more, and the Zoo—to be renamed simply the "Toronto Zoo"—would be prepared for the change.

Toronto Zoo to go green. The Zoo will now focus on biodiversity and sustainability while presenting animals from around the world in small, depressing, joke-like habitats that offer a crude mockery of how the animals would prefer to live, focusing on the fact that while their lives in the zoo might suck, at least nobody is killing these animals for fun, as would frequently happen in the wild.

For people of a certain age, memories of the Toronto Zoo begin with riding the old monorail. Only it wasn't the old monorail back then—it was the super-futuristic monorail. After a 1994 accident that injured about 30 people, the train's track was pulled up and some of the guideway removed. But if you know where to look, most of the route remains visible as it snakes through the grounds of the zoo.

You may have already heard about the stellar line-up of bands going on for this year's Wintercity, but there's much more to this festival than an eclectic mix of tunes.

A while ago, some tigers were born at the Toronto Zoo. They’re pretty cute (uh, hello, they’re baby tigers!), but a trip to the zoo these days requires some serious commitment (at least three hours of transit time and $19).

The City is receving about $980 million dollars from Toronto Hydro. There was some fierce debate about how the money will be used but in the end the City will earmark the money for waterfront redevelopment and the York U subway. Sadly fancy ketchups or green dresses were nowhere on council's radar. Pictured here are the very happy Toronto Hydro mascots.

The smoking ban came into effect at midnight. The ban means that all enclosed public spaces are now smoke-free. Bars and restaurants without outdoor patios are angry at the by-law.

Proper names are perhaps the most arbitrary labels in the animal kingdom. What criteria are available to name a baby too young to lend itself to any endearing nicknames? The Toronto Zoo is well well aware of this, and needs our help with baby names. They have a young gorilla (pictured -->) that must be addressed as something besides, "Hey You!" or "Monkey Boy." They, however, are not so open to give free reign in the naming process; it must start with the letter 'S.' So, we got to thinking: Sssstinky? Stollerys? Scotiabank? Strongbow?