A crowd of a few hundred watching the game at Plaza Flamingo restaurant at College and Bathurst Street poured out onto the roadway after Spain's goal in extra time against the Netherlands. Continue Reading

Police are looking for help identifying a man they say is responsible for the assault of a TTC driver. At around 3 p.m. on June 7 in the Finch Avenue East and Sandhurst Circle area, the man boarded a bus and refused to pay his full fare, police say. When the driver denied the man's request for a transfer, the man spat on the driver and fled. Continue Reading

The Toronto Zoo's oldest orangutan, Molek, was euthanized June 30. Molek, a 32-year-old Sumatran orangutan, suffered complete renal failure and had to be put down. Continue Reading

Brutal heat, brutal sport and the senior boys rugby squad from Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute wouldn't have it any other way. Under a withering sun the team of 16 to 18 year olds, coached by Chris Rhora, romped to a lopsided 22-10 victory over the Cedarbrae C.I. Colts Thursday afternoon at the Sunnybrook Park rugby pitch to capture the Toronto District School Board's bragging rights for 2010. Continue Reading

Three Toronto high school’s are expanding their concert musical programs into uncharted - and unscripted - territory. Under the guidance of 22-year-old Toronto musician, teacher and entrepreneur Mitch Wong, students at De La Salle College, University of Toronto Schools and St. Clement's School are learning how to jam. Continue Reading

Don’t let your next drive be your child’s last. That’s the message behind the Toronto Child Seat Safety Coalition’s new ad campaign. Coalition officials staged a press conference recently to unveil a new public awareness poster at the Toronto Police Services’s Spring Child Seat Safety Clinic held at the corner of St. Clair Avenue West and Runnymede Road. Continue Reading

Toronto’s new Transit City project on Eglinton Avenue includes Ontario’s first specialized u-turn intersection and drivers used to making the standard left turn at traffic lights will have to pay a bit of attention. Continue Reading

Typing, deleting, rewording and second-guessing, Nick Muehlen recently struggled to write a Facebook message. “All of a sudden, you want to pour your heart out and you don’t know. Would that scare somebody away?” Muehlen said. “I was a walking mess. It was very, very intense.” Continue Reading

With the Atlantic Ocean between them, their relationship has survived. But Mother Nature had other plans for their reunion. Hannah Beck, 22, met 24-year-old Edgar van de Meer, at Taylor Statten Camps in Algonquin Park (in northern Ontario) in July 2008. Their relationship bloomed throughout that summer. Continue Reading

Already struggling economically and physically, Christian Gonyo, 46, doesn’t know what the future will bring, but if recent moves by the province of Ontario are an indication, leaner times are on his horizon. On March 25 the government announced in its 2010 spring budget that it would phase out the Special Diet Allowance. Continue Reading