Sunshine, mild breezes, birds chirping… ah, spring. But before you know it, we’ll all be complaining about the damn heat, and lawns everywhere will look like hay. The city will issue a frantic "don't water anything" order and those fresh green shoots you see now will be wilted, yellow clumps by August. Fear not, green thumbs. Paul Needler has the solution for you. Needler, a part-time musician and full-time inventor, has come up with......

Photo by Word Freak. Water, it would appear as of late, is most oft discussed within the realms of the environmental and the geopolitical; and rightfully so. Landfills, drought, and container concerns aside, we, weak humanoids that we are, still need to stay hydrated, and if we're not at home, we often buy the bottled stuff. We here at Torontoist figured, well, you might as well know which one to go for.......

Man stabs himself with katana. People may wonder how such a ridiculous accident came to occur, and our response is "he lived in Scarborough, what else is there to do?" Torontonians rally for a free Tibet. In response, the government of China immediately said it was very, very sorry and immediately began withdrawing troops and establishing Tibetan self-government while declaring May 17th to be "The Dalai Lama Is Awesome Day" in China. Painkillers and......

Barack Obama lays down the smack in South Carolina's presidential primary. Obama won by an enormous 28-point margin, prompting Bill Clinton to afterwards comment that this was no big deal because Jesse Jackson, who is a black man, like Barack Obama, won South Carolina when he ran for President, and did he mention that Barack Obama is black just like Jesse Jackson? (Also black: Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and that R&B star that had......