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...Sweet and Lowdown, who realizes he's no Django Reinhardt, Pitka rankles at being No. 2 to Chopra. His manager (John Oliver of The Daily Show) convinces him that he can get on Oprah if he can just restore the frayed marriage of Darren Roanoke (Romany Malko), a Toronto Maple Leafs star whose wife is having an affair with banana-schlonged goalie Jacques "Le Coq" Grande (Justin Timberlake). This brings him in contact with Maple Leafs owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba...
Deep-green San Francisco isn't the only city to offer curbside food-scrap recycling. Across the bay, Alameda County--which includes Berkeley--also recycles organic waste from residences and restaurants, and in Seattle, the massive Cedar Grove recycling facility handles 40,000 tons of food waste a year. Toronto has the most extensive organic recycling program in North America, and Portland, Ore., is considering adding curbside food-scrap pickup...
...book, which Levitsky is coauthoring with Lucan A. Way from the University of Toronto, discusses the growth of “competitive authoritarian” regimes, in which elections are held but one party holds a large advantage...
This is not to say that Cannes (or Venice or Toronto) is immune to Hollywood star quality. The big festivals need celebrities to grace the red carpet, to be photographed by the paparazzi and TV crews, to glean worldwide publicity for the event. So the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first Indy movie since 1989, was headline news. Producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg and leading man Harrison Ford showed up to promote their familiar if robust revival of the archaeologist adventurer. Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman appeared with their sweetly vigorous animated...
...enough dirt to fill the SkyDome in 48 hours," says Crisby, a fiftyish manager at Syncrude Canada Ltd., a company that is the Incredible Hulk of North America's biggest and richest resource deposit: Alberta's oil sands. The idea of filling the 60,000-seat home of the Toronto Blue Jays (now called Rogers Centre) with sticky, bitumen-laced soil from the Aurora North mine in a weekend is mind-boggling. But it puts the business conducted on this chunk of boreal real estate into perspective: there are 173 billion bbl. of crude contained in an area roughly...