Paris News

Tara Quinn - Smith of Toronto won the women's 5,000 metres while Simon Bairu of Regina took the men's event Thursday at the 2009 Canadian track and field championships.

Cyclists from Fairbanks cleaned up on Saturday at the 17th Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay.

A.M. RICHARD FINE ART: 328 Berry St., Williamsburg. 570-1476 or www.amrichardfineart.com . "All Roads Lead to Coney Island." Through July 12.

Federal Transport Minister John Baird showed this week that, as far as Toronto-bashing goes, fellow Ontarians know how to go straight for the jugular, but only because they know the city so well.

Global airlines are likely to lose $9 billion this year, the International Air Transport Association said on Monday, nearly double its estimate of just three months ago, as rising fuel prices and weak demand create an unprecedented crisis for the industry.

June 5, 2009 01:55 PM - Mississauga golfers Owen Bates and Brittany Davidson are in Paris, Ontario this weekend trying to qualify for a pair of tournaments this summer.

Ted Reader rumbled into town last week, lugging his 3,500-pound barbecue behemoth with him.

As Canada lurches towards what may well be the country's worst medical crisis in decades, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq arrived in gay Paris yesterday for a few days of "doing some business." How nice.

Michael Ignatieff is adamant: He didn't write this book to help him win the prime minister's job.

Q: These lovely opera glasses have been in my family for generations. They're made of brass and mother of pearl.

Sketch of Hassan Diab, an Ottawa university teacher accused by the French government of bombing a synagogue in Paris in 1980, during a bail hearing.

His serious works, on history and economics, are beyond dated. His retrograde views on women and his certainty of Anglo-Saxon superiority is, at best, ridiculed.

Toronto doesn't have an authentic street food scene, blackmarket chicken is safe to eat, Susur Lee is our golden boy, eating out after the bar is great, and bottled water is better than tap water.

Plans for a subdivision of homes, apartments, and condos that could potentially house up to 2,700 people in the fields behind Oakwood Cemetery are moving forward at town hall.

Toronto police and the food-safety officials are warning that a stolen shipment of chicken might be contaminated.

Toronto Police have clipped the wings of a chicken-stealing operation, but have warned the public some of its potentially harmful product may have reached shop shelves.

Instead, we have nothing to show for 35 years of feasibility reports but the promise of yet another.

Matthew Jocelyn was named artistic and general director at Canadian Stage Company on Wednesday.

Mexican Ambassador Emilio Goicoechea and his wife, Juliette Ohleyer, hosted a farewell reception at their home Wednesday.

What a start to 2009. There sits Prime Minister Stephen Harper, with his $85-billion in new debt.