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The city of Paris has recently been courting tourists from London, England with a new series of ads that look like this:

Toronto had a violent weekend with nine people shot and four of them killed, including an 11-year-old boy at a birthday party. Two more people were stabbed. Cue relatives wailing, Police Chief Bill Blair saying "this is unacceptable," and headlines like "Saturday Night Bloodbath." We’ve seen all this before. Solutions, anyone?

Torontoist was at last night's Under-20 World Cup semi-final between Argentina and Chile at BMO Field and left wondering: "How did a riot not break out?" Well, as it turns out, a riot of sorts did break out after the game, when members of the Chilean team confronted a group of policemen. Reports of taser guns being used have yet to be confirmed, although eyewitnesses swear it happened.

Photo of David Beckham by rayxhead

The St. Clair West neighbourhood has had some conflict-filled times over the past few years. Who can forget the St. Clair streetcar ROW debacle, during which there were calls to boycott the beleaguered community? We think that it’s time to forgive and forget, and how better to do that than with a sultry summer samba party?

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

City Council plans to create as many as 21 new leash-free areas for dogs by the end of the year. Councillor Howard Moscoe calls for fences to separate people and canines, saying, "The problem is the dogs can't read the signs. We'd lose control completely unless they're fenced areas." Alarmed local media dub 2007 "The Summer of the Dog."

On Sunday night, a small motorcade of revellers snaked down the Danforth, whistling and beeping and waving what looked like the Japanese flag with a green background. Turns out it was the flag of Bangladesh and the occasion was the Bangladeshi team's triumph over Bermuda in Cricket World Cup.

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur, the new graffiti king in town, Bill Cosby's adorable dog, and the disturbing tale of a yoga instructor who was found guilty of killing his girlfriend, a dancer from Ohio who stripped to make ends meet.

Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash argues in his latest column that he wants Canada to join the European Union and that he came to this conclusion after seeing the multicultural and happy World Cup celebrations here in Toronto.

Unless you've been asleep for the last 24 hours you already know that Italy won the World Cup. Torontonians celebrate all over the city but the bulk of the partying centred on College St. and up on Corso Italia on St. Clair.

After several days of beautiful weather, we were due for a nice storm. And since tanning is not an option today, go see a Fr!nge Play or two (or eight) this afternoon. To make sure you don't see a dud.. read on...

The City wants to allow you to add more items to your recycling bin. Proposals are in the works to allow polystyrene, spiral containers (ie. frozen juice concentrate cans) and even plastic bags. The problem is that the city's recycling capacity is maxed out and the City is desperately looking for more cash to increase capacity.

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. You can protest someone at his office, sure, but when the whistle blows at the end of the day can you follow him home? D.C. has sports fans, apparently, and elephants aren't really cut out for zoos. There's this trick where you can read information from a .PDF file if it hasn't been redacted properly. Kinda like this one leaked from a court case in San Francisco. SFist brings you an update on "How to Get the Guy" and explains why it was a bad week for bonfires on the beach. The woman who took the pictures of a Texas teacher that are causing a lot of fuss is interviewed this week by Austinist. A three-year-old eats nine hits of acid and "Don't Mess With Texas" is up for a Favorite Slogan award. Chicagoist released a great FAQ for download this week called "Act Like You've Been Here Before: The Chicagoist Guide to Chicago." Ozzie Guillen's in the news again and the universal rip off is examined. The "12th Man" is not a phrase that's used in relation to the World Cup, and if you try it Texas A&M will sue your ass. Seattle may not have the legal rights to any catchy sports phrases, but it does have the world's largest bass drum. Seattlest also ponders funding for national parks. Bowling alleys around the country have a bad habit of closing, but in philadelphia a new one is actually opening. The Zombie Prom is coming and Phillyist talks to the Unholy Sideshow. Someone in Miami was selling those tiny fashion accessory dogs as pure-breds when they actually bought them randomly off the internet. Miamist checks into Eminent Domain and celebrates an NBA title Jeff Skilling can't get himself out of the news - This week we get to hear about his fragile little psyche before the trial. Is Lex Luthor from the new Superman based on him? Houstonist also talks about ninjas. This Boston man had a little trouble finding his Hanover hotel after a match, much the same as the U.S. team had trouble finding the goal during the game. Bostonist also found this video of Boston College kids trying the Mentos and Diet Coke thing and the swan boats. Two groups in London are locked in a bitter turf war over who gets to feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Londonist is somewhat less than excited about new television advertising technology. They're also stalking Doctor Who around the city. You can only get a decent soy dog from a few Major League so it's news when Dodger Stadium mysteriously stops selling them. LAist has nothing good to say about the Mighty Ducks new marketing, but a living roof could keep the South Central Farm in business. Protesters, including a beauty queen, shut down a cat meatball restaurant in L.A. this week. Ok, Shenzhen. A Shanghaiist photographer comes across a tragic scene and Chinese Bishops, the Vatican and Stephen Hawking are all thrown into the mixer here. Don't just give up on it if you lose your Sidekick. Call it. A few times. Call the cops. Document everything on your website. NYC cops crack down on subway pervs and New York is somehow the world's most polite city. Third most polite city in the world is Toronto. Some of the comments in that post might give a clue as to why they didn't score higher. A kickball team is raising funds for a trip down to NYC and it's Pride week in Toronto.

After a week of pridelicious events, it's now time to take over downtown Toronto, drink a lot of beer, make some noise, wear colourful threads.... wait, is this a post about The World Cup or Pride Toronto?

A man was stabbed to death in North York at a party celebrating Ghana's victory over the USA at the World Cup. Apparently gang colours may have been a trigger for the tragic attack.

Sure, World Cup fever is sweeping the city. But why stab or bludgeon people when you can just watch all the games (like June 9th's Poland v. Ecuador game, in this case) through a store window at Bay and Bloor with complete strangers. The best thing about this shot? The store's attempted tie-in with the tournament: "World of Cups" for a cup sale.

Well, with the first match of the World Cup watched and a fresh cup of coffee brewed, looks like it’s time for Torontoist to file another one of it’s Film Friday reports. But with the whole world going footy mad (Rightly so – did you see Lahm’s goal at six minutes? What about Frings' finisher? But we digress) what on earth is there to get excited about in the world of film?

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers.

members of this city's Cuban or Dominican population will be congregating anywhere in the event of a victory?

Jeremy Wotherspoon has blown it again. After his silver medal at the 1998 Nagano games, the Canadian Speedskater has been at the top of Rick Tocchet's odds sheet ever since. Yet he continues to disappoint in Olympic competition. The three-time World Cup 500m champion was average at best, finishing ninth today. This comes after he tumbled to the ice in Salt Lake City four years ago when he was also a heavy favourite. American Joey Cheek won the gold with Winnipeg's Mike Ireland finishing as the top Canadian in seventh spot. The 29-year old Red Deer native Wotherspoon will have one final chance for gold when the 1000 metres is held this Saturday. And just to add to your pressure Jeremy, here's what some TSN.ca readers back home had to say:

Traditionally Canadian literature has been divided into two very logical halves, English and French. But within English Canadian Literature there really should be another division, one that reflects this city’s overwhelming dominance in English Canadian letters. The bulk of the country’s publishers are here. The country’s influential critics, journalists and chattering classes live, write and pontificate in the cafes and bars of the Annex, the Beaches and Queen St. West. This dominance translates into a vitality in our literary scene. Every year dozens of novels are published by Toronto-based writers about the city, more than enough to demand that those who look at the state of Canadian literature look at the Toronto-novel as a subject worth studying.