Do you hear what I hear? Well, besides the Bing Crosby Christmas carols filling mall corridors, that would be the chiming of cash registers as corporations the world over fire up their sweatshops and start tallying their holiday profits. If handing out mall socks and sweaters is starting to ring hollow for you, consider injecting a little more feel-good factor into your prezzie shopping and give out gifts that pay it forward.

Let’s speak no more of seeking provincial and federal “funding” for public transit. We don’t want “funding.” We want our money back.

We did it. We got the Pan Am Games.

Is your best furry friend a major culprit in global warming?

Crunch time for Shelley Carroll.

There are endless ways a shopper can approach the store-saturated strip of Yonge between Eglinton and Lawrence.

Launched exactly one year ago, low-key Loire deserves to be applauded as much for what it does – soberly priced contemporary plates with a decided French accent – as for what it doesn’t do.