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Betty's is your best bet then. The King streetcar to Sherbourne. It's on the north side. There's also a Gabby's nearby too.

There's nothing down there. It's a desolate part of the city. I believe there's one pub off Cherry Street. Your best bet would be to find something on Front and Jarvis or even Betty's at King and Sherbourne.

TV and film lists are far easier to tabulate, even if Ollie has the new incarnation of 90210 as his #1 Best Of All Time TV list.

I know, but its been that kind of day. CTV just laidoff over 100 employees, mostly at Much and MuchMore. In all seriousness, music and literature may be the toughest and most subjective arts genres to rank.

Thanks Andre, that made my day. Also, you can't have an honest Best Of list unless you've listened to EVERY album from 2008 without bias.

I caught the game last night - only thing on sports-wise, other than the Knicks game. Anyway, Atlanta played very aggressively. Their defense pounded the Leafs, especially Slater and Exelby. Kovalchuk was good (not much of a fight with White, but it was nice to see) and so was Little and Todd White (Ottawa never really replaced him). Toronto's White was the only Leaf D that played with any fire.

I agree that importing power is out of the question, but building a plant smack-dab in the middle of waterfront redevelopment and future sight of a huge neighbourhood is short-sighted and destructive, not to mention an arrogant slap in the face. They easily could have built the plant a few kilometres east of where it is now near the vast industrial lands at Leslie and Lakeshore (an area that isn't part of the waterfront development plan).

I like a lot of things about Dalton McGuinty - his Greenbelt initiative being near the top - but he's out of touch when it comes to developing power plans and power consumption.

The sad thing is that folks in Scarborough get up-in-arms about "ugly" turbines, but where were their voices when the Provinical Liberals made a sneaky deal to stick a huge new power-generator on Toronto's waterfront. There were rallies, but they were poorly attended. I went though. Those that think having a giant new power generator smack-dab in the middle of the still under construction 40 thousand resident neighbourhood is a good idea, are insane; not to mention that the generator killed any chance of waterfront revitalization in that area - a plan the city has worked on for the past 20 years. If we had more turbines and solar power or cut-down on consumption, then we wouldn't need more generators and especially not located in prime urban areas.

I wonder if these same folks in Scarborough complained when jet service to the Toronto Island Airport resumed with little fanfare - halting the overuse of the airport was a big part of why Miller got re-elected. Having jets regularly flying over Toronto - and I presume sometimes the beloved Scarborough Bluffs - is "kinda" noisey? Wouldn't it be nice if Toronto decided to stick wind turbines along Toronto's Golden Mile or how about erecting some along the acres of empty parking lots and abandoned stripmalls continually blighting North Scarborough?

Ouch! I hated Platinum Blonde back in the 80's and their music still makes me cringe when their videos air regularly on the MuchRetro channel and I don't care for their lead singer and current Toronto DJ Mark Holmes, but this is all pretty shocking and sad. Platinum Blonde are an iconic piece of Canadian 80's rock.

Interesting.

Imagine the disaster if one of the growing number of nuclear-waste silos leaked or if the aging Darlington plant went through a meltdown or why the cancer rates in Port Hope are higher than any in Ontario or why the folks in Port Hope still remember having lovely pink snow. The risks of solar and wind power are minimal. Coal, hydro-electric and nuclear all can or will cause major environmental problems and health risks. Killing migratory birds? Fuck that. The proliferation of suburbia in the Greenbelt does far more damage, and not to just birds and animal eithers.

I hate Damien Cox with a white hot passion, but I read him all the time. As for Doug MacLean's views on yesterday's trade: where was he off-base?

Doug MacLean had a few reservations about this trade today on The Fan. He worried that Stempniak's contract is up next year and he wondered why the trade happened before Burke steps in. I think the deal is pretty good as long as they can sign Lee.

Ruutu jaws to provoke and then he runs away, but George challenges when he jaws. A big difference. The frustrating thing about Ruutu is that he knows how to fight. He's like a Claude Lemieux light in that respect.

Although Lucic scored in a tightly contested game.

Across the board, the announcers on the CBC (not Cherry though) were critical of Big Georges all night long (including the intermissions of the Calgary game) for going after Lucic. They were equally critical of Chara too for not doing anything about it. I can't see Lucic dropping the gloves with Georges at this point in his life, plus Milan isn't prone to taking stupid penalties. Still, I think he'll fight Georges and get killed at some point in the future.

I think if it was Ken Dryden at the nudie bar, the Apocolypse would be upon us.

Lafleur's son is out then? Big Georges?

Well, I was hoping it was going to be Stan Jonathan or Terry O'Reilly. I don't think its Kirk. For me to get excited about a Hab, it's got to be someone I like, and there's only a few. Gainey, Serge, Pat Burns, Jacques Demers or The Flower?

I thought this post was about Hux switching over to the Conservative Party to be Jim Flaherty's piss-boy.

Maybe Tremblay had a hand in the directing?

This Hatton fight is a fucking war.

No sports organization does a better job of honouring their players than the Montreal Canadiens. Fuck off Yankees, Red Sox and Man U. MLSE? The Clark tribute was nice, especially the rousing video montage, but the Leafs are middle-class suburban compared to the Habs.