MUSIC: INDIE POP STARS GET FUNKY

Just as you need to step outside the city to view the sparkly sky, you'll need to leave Toronto on Tuesday to see Stars, the Montreal-based indie band that plays a small, snug club up the road in Waterloo. There - at the Starlight Lounge, appropriately enough - fans get a special sneak preview of the much-anticipated In Our Bedroom After the War, the band's fourth (and possibly breakthrough) album, out Sept. 25.

GM to axe 1,000 Oshawa jobs

General Motors of Canada Ltd. will eliminate about 1,000 jobs at a truck plant in Oshawa, in January in the face of slumping pickup sales caused in part by the slide in the U.S. housing market.

Truscott's acquittal a great relief to author inspired by his case

''I don't ever remember a time not knowing about it.''Ann-Marie MacDonald is on her cellphone from rural New Brunswick, where she's on a fishing holiday from her home in Toronto. The award-winning novelist and playwright is talking about the 1959 murder in Southern Ontario of 12-year-old Lynne Harper and the conviction of a schoolmate, 14-year-old Steven Truscott, for the crime.

Suspicious-parcel calls keeping police busy

Opening the mail has become an anxious experience ever since police warned the public about a pair of firebomb packages delivered to Toronto addresses. Police in Toronto and Halton Region say they've had an explosion in the number of calls for suspicious parcels in recent weeks, including a Toronto office building that was evacuated because a former employee sent company materials back by courier, and a Georgetown woman who went to the local police station with a suspicious box that, upon examination, turned out to be a teapot.

Teen gang operated like a 'wolf pack', police say

Sixteen-year-old Julian Beckles and three friends were looking to take an evening dip in a west-end public pool when they came across about nine members of the Grown Men Business, a group that terrorized downtown Toronto parks with ''wolf-pack style'' muggings this summer, police say.

Search for Toronto man intensifies after car found

Former Bay Street lawyer and fund manager was last seen at his sister's Toronto home on June 26

Search for Toronto man intensifies after car found

The search for a Toronto man who went missing two months ago has re-intensified after his car was found Sunday in the Georgian Bay town of Killarney, Ont., 350 kilometres northwest of his family's Haliburton-area cottage.

Cyclist, 7, dead after being struck by van

A seven-year-old girl is dead after she was struck by a van while riding her bike yesterday.Toronto police say a 41-year-old man was driving along Bay Mills Boulevard in the Warden Avenue and Sheppard Avenue area in the city's east end about 12:45 p.m. when he let a boy cross the street at a crosswalk before proceeding.

Toronto man, 20, charged in fatal east-end stabbing

A 20-year-old man is facing a second-degree murder charge following a fatal stabbing in an east-end Toronto park last week.Toronto police say they were called to the scene Wednesday night and found a 20-year-old man with stab wounds to the chest.

Councillor blasts TTC rider survey as propaganda tool for Miller

A new online survey that asks riders to weigh in on the Toronto Transit Commission's potential budget cuts is just a propaganda exercise, one critic says, aimed at selling Mayor David Miller's two controversial proposed taxes.

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