Tonight’s the night that Payday makes its return to Augusta House with a special Thursday night party. It’s our third overall, and our last of the year, so we do hope you all can make it. Guest list spots are available, so do drop a line if you’d like to get on board. If you […]

The CBC has reported on a British Columbia court ruling blocking Bell Mobility from advertising its network as the “most reliable” in Canada. The ruling comes as a result of legal action launched earlier this month by Rogers, who lost a similar case against Telus last month over their own claim to being Canada’s most […]

There’s a demonstration scheduled for tomorrow at 5:30 PM at the Toronto Stock Exchange in honour of three community organizers in Latin America who have recently been killed in connection to their opposition to Canadian mining companies. The vigil has been organized by Community Solidarity Response Toronto in partnership with Amnesty International. The Facebook listing […]

Tonight I overheard a woman on the streetcar tell a friend over the phone that a movie she’d recently seen would surely get an Oscar nomination for “best film and stuff.” As much as it made me chuckle, I feel kind of bad about sharing that with you. Sure, there’s no such thing as an […]

I haven’t had much luck with laptops over the past couple of years. I’m not even sure I should admit that, because whenever I talk about computer woes online, the Mac people come out of the woodwork to say that the solution to my problem, no matter what it is, is to buy one of […]

Today Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was gracious in his acceptance, and he was smart enough to acknowledge the global debate over whether or not he’s actually earned it. “I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility,” he said. “And yet I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge […]

The streetcar I was on was full of people. When it pulled up at the next stop, the driver opened the door and told the man hoping to board that he’d have to wait for the next one. “Damn it!” the man shouted. “Shit!” When I got to work, one of the elevators was out […]

The second anniversary of Everyone’s a DJ is coming up this Saturday night, and we’re about to go bigger than we ever have before. Instead of doing our usual sixteen sets from 9:00 PM onward, we’re going to kick things off at 7:00 PM with an unprecedented twenty-two DJs. The schedule is available on our […]

I don’t normally like to post about Righteous Melody in any great detail on this blog. The way I see it, if I have to explain a strip, then I haven’t written a good one. But lately in life, whenever heavy metal comes up in conversation, I feel obliged to point out that my opinions […]

Did you know that in the United States, where name brand prescription drugs are often many times more expensive than their generic alternatives, it’s totally legal for the name brand company to pay the generic manufacturer not to make the cheaper drug so they can keep charging the much higher name brand rate to consumers? […]