• blogTO shares photos of Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s, a time when the downtown was dominated by ... parking lots.
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I wasn't surprised when Will Ferguson's novel 419 won the Giller Award. From the moment I opened its pages, I knew that 419 was superb ( Read more... )

The Los Angeles Times reports that past suggestions that elephants are actually highly intelligent seem to be correct, for at least some elephants have passed the mirror test.

Cats may try to pick a fight with their image in a mirror. Dogs may bring a gift of food to what they think is a newfound friend. But humans and chimpanzees - and maybe ( Read more... )