Columbia, South Carolina?
British Columbia?
Colombia?
Is mint-growing so tricky that they couldn’t grow the damned stuff locally at, say, Boncheff Greenhouses?

An Angus Reid poll, released a week ago, shows that 42% of Canadians actually believe humans and dinosaurs co-existed. Another 21% “aren’t sure”. Particularly shameful is that the province with the greatest urban population (Ontario) is also the most fucking stupid. We’re a place right out of history. Other gems from the A-R poll (PDF [...]

How long does it take to get from my apartment to my gym’s sign-in desk? The exact amount of time it takes to listen to New Order’s “Your Silent Face” on my iPod, that’s how long.
And, for serious, at 6:30 AM, in the crisp, bright morning air of downtown Toronto, is there a better soundtrack [...]

Announcer: So, what’s it gonna be, the good stuff [Labatt Blue] or the okay stuff [no-name brand]? Let’s face it — “good” is good, “okay” is, well, just okay, but you know that. Hey, $20.95 for the good stuff, not the okay stuff. Seems like a no-brainer.
No-brainer, indeed. Ordinary, shlubby Canadian everyman, shopping for [...]

23 May 2007:
15-year-old Jordan Manners is shot and killed at C.W. Jeffries Collegiate Institute. School and government officials are understandably shocked and call for an investigation into youth gun crime. Jordan’s family demands answers. Two 17-year-olds are later charged in the slaying.
2 June 2007:
15-year-old Chevon Josephs kills himself and two other teenagers while fleeing [...]

Edward “Ned” Hanlan (1855 - 1908):

THE MOST RENOWNED OARSMAN
OF ANY AGE WHOSE VICTORIOUS
CAREER HAS NO PARALLEL IN
THE ANNALS OF SPORT
BORN AND DIED IN TORONTO
Ned Hanlan was the first Canadian superstar sports figure and it’s unlikely you’ll find a single biography lacking reference to his handsome good looks, quiet masculinity and diminutive-but-nonetheless-manly, tight-muscled physique. He wore [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK1yx8KVh7c

Way to tie your product to a famewhoring, criminal, dipshit skank, Nestlé.
Toronto Subway Car, 10 June 2007, 6PM

or… “I’m Waiting To Hear From Rebecca Eckler’s Lawyer”
So, if you live in Canada, you’ve heard of Rebecca Eckler. Not necessarily because you’re acquainted with her banal, unfunny and unoriginal writing, nor because you wasted a few precious seconds of your life poring over her poorly-spelled, ridiculously trite and self-absorbed weblog, but because this week [...]

So, the Bay-Adelaide Centre has, over the last several months, been transformed from a mausoleum-like monument to the collapse of Toronto’s ’90s construction boom into… a full-fledged construction site. And how does the superclassy Bay-Adelaide Centre address this very welcome and long-overdue metamorphosis? By name-checking only the highest cultural touchstone of our time, of [...]