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Toronto Mayor David Miller and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty travelled to Thunder Bay on Friday to formally announce a $1.2-billion contract with Bombardier to build a new fleet of streetcars for the transit system in the provincial capital.

Just look at this question and answer!!!!

In a telephone survey of 1,003 adults conducted in April, the center's Social & Demographic Trends project found that about half or those questioned now see microwaves, televisions and air conditioning as luxuries.

Greater Toronto residents — and indeed anyone around the world — will soon be able to see everything from their front door to the sidewalk patio of their favourite restaurant on Google Street View, although the exact date has not been released.

remon has posted the trailers for Planet of the Dead and Children of Earth, view them here

In one local paper, Toronto Star, they have 175 reasons to love Toronto.  I really will not try to list 175 things that I love about Toronto.

The NYC police commissioner, Ray Kelly, is super annoyed at TD Bank because he says they're just too easy to rob. In one example of this phenomenon, a robber was thwarted by three Chase branches before successfully robbing a TD Bank. And get this, 17% of this New York City's bank robberies occurred at TD Bank branches.

The Source by Circuit City is shuffling its 750 electronics stores across the country into the hands of Bell Canada for an undisclosed price.

When you help others to avoid paying taxes, you support the underground economy. For example, if you agree to pay cash for a service in exchange for a better rate, then the service provider is probably not declaring that income.

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TORONTO - Four decades after Hollywood's first interracial kiss in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" shocked mainstream America, Canada's multicultural society is increasingly showing signs that love is colour blind.

The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.

With music download trends showing that the coveted male 18–24 demographic is more interested in the music of their ancestors than anything current, music store HMV is dropping CD prices on oldies like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. HMV hopes that the move will convince young men to abandon the web and start stealing from retail stores again.

The arduous, lengthy, and expensive quest to name the Bell Festival Centre is over. The Star described the process for finding a new moniker for the home of the Toronto International Film Festival Group in dramatic terms: "[it] has gone on for years," wrote Martin Knelman, "involving high-priced consulting firms and a committee of board members and gurus, climaxing with a think-tank meeting at a retreat in Cambridge, Ont."