It's officially the wettest summer ever in Toronto's recorded meteorological history. A massive explosion at a propane tank farm in northwestern Toronto (a href=" http://torontoist.com/2008/08/explosions_in_north_york_shake_city...off flock to the urban core and the poor are shunted off to the peripheries, in words and in maps. He ends his post on the hopeful note that government intervention to arrest this trend is possible.

Reuters reports on the latest round of Cypriot reunification talks. The decision of the leaders of both sides to initiate the talks is hoepful, but is this likely to end in something, I ask my readers...noble His Royal Highness Duke Carl Herzog von Wurttemberg after the Soviet invasino of Czechoslovakia, has been bought up by an environmental group that wants to operate it as a nature reserve.

The people I spoke to were right. Somebody got shot at the By The Way Cafe in the Annex. Six gunshots heard at 10:55 pm from outside our window. There's a crowd outside in shock. Edit: 2 people...that we'll be hearing more of this later. Things like this just aren't supposed to happen, certainly not in The Annex. At least I was ten minutes too late, this time, to get interviewed by the police

"25 YEARS: 53 BUCKS," the banner headline for Michael Valpy's front-page story read. The final data released from the 2006 census showed the median earnings of full-time Canadian workers had increased...Toronto area, median family incomes dropped to $77,693 in 2005 from $75,829 in 2000. The 2.4 per cent decrease compares with a national increase of 3.7 per cent and a provincial increase of 1.4 per cent.