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McGuinty will need more than bromides to navigate unfamiliar, leaner times	news
It's time for Dalton McGuinty 2.0.The world that sustained the Ontario Premier in his first five years in office has changed utterly and he will have to change, too.
Ontario takes gold medal with win at U-17 Challenge	news
Ontario successfully defended its gold medal yesterday at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge with a 5-1 victory over Pacific. J.P. Anderson made 33 saves and Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, John McFarland, Steven Shipley and Erik Gudbranson each scored, as Ontario won its 15th consecutive game at the tournament. Seguin opened the scoring for Ontario in the first with less than a minute remaining in the period. In the second, Skinner put Ontario up by two before Pacific's Justin Feser cut the disadvantage in half with a goal going into the third. In the bronze-medal match, Jacob Fallon had a hat trick as the United States downed Canada West 4-2.
A life-and-death gamble	news
One had to read almost to the end of the article to learn that the stem-cell transplant costing $500,000 would have increased the odds of survival from 10 to 15 per cent to 20 to 25 per cent, so it's hard to definitively say that OHIP ''robbed'' Valerie Niles of her life (OHIP Delays Robbed Cancer Victim Of Chance To Live - Jan. 2). In an environment with limited funds and unlimited (and ever increasing) demands, paying half a million dollars to improve one's odds by such a small amount maybe doesn't make sense.
Environmental assessment process to be shortened for Blue 22	news
The creation of a train linking Union Station to Pearson International Airport appears to have been fast-tracked after more than a decade mired in bureaucratic tangles and objections from local residents.
Massage parlour argument leaves man dead	news
The city's first homicide of the year was triggered by an argument inside a Rexdale massage parlour involving a 36-year-old Iraqi expatriate and three men he had apparently never met before, police said yesterday.
'Bureaucratized' to death?	news
The death of Valerie Niles shows how provincial health rationing affects patients' survival outcomes. It also unveils the often unseen partner in the health-care system. Your well-being is not just a matter between you and your physician, but also between you and the whims of faceless bureaucrats.
No probe announced in cancer patient's death	news
Ontario's Health Ministry offered sympathy to the family of Valerie Niles - the leukemia patient who died after a treatment battle with government - but could not confirm if an investigation will be launched.
'Bureaucratized' to death?	news
How much is a life worth to the Ontario Health Insurance Plan bureaucrats who hold the purse strings on potentially life-saving treatments for Ontario residents? Apparently, not the $500,000 (U.S.) required for Valerie Niles's stem-cell transplant in Seattle to treat her acute myeloid leukemia (OHIP Delays Robbed Cancer Victim Of Chance To Live - front page, Jan. 2).
Let them eat galette des rois	news
The last - and, to my mind, best - day of the holiday season is Epiphany, or the 12th day of Christmas. By Jan. 6, I've caught my breath, put away the Christmas ornaments and the menorah (we are a dual-religion family), and I am ready for one last hurrah, the feast of kings, which French people and Francophiles celebrate with champagne and galette des rois, an almond-
York students try to allay boredom, parents' concerns	news
When talks resume today to end a long strike at York University, workers, management officials and students won't be the only ones eager for a speedy settlement.Parents, too, will be looking on with hope as they dream of reclaimed televisions, refrigerators that remain full for more than a day and some actual education to show for their financial support.
Expanded RIDE program catches more drunk drivers	news
Toronto police charged more people with drunk driving this holiday season than they have since 2001 - not because there are more drunks on the road but because there are more cops hiding in unexpected places.
O! Canada	news
The Dominion Institute, concerned with all things Canadian, threw itself a party recently, with tiny maple leaf flags in the breaded cheese balls, Gordon Lightfoot on the soundtrack and all the Robert Simpson's Confederation Ale a hoser could drink.
I love t.o.	news
A FEW OF THEIR FAVOURITE THINGSSarah TaylorVJ, MuchMusicBecause I do get itchy living in one spot, I like the idea of all the different neighbourhoods. They are so intriguing and eclectic. I can feel like I can be part of all these different cultures. You can be a tourist in your own city. My dream Toronto day would include lunch in Chinatown, shopping through Little India, Kensington and Yorkville, followed by dinner at my favourite Ethiopian restaurant, a live show at the Horseshoe, cocktails on Ossington and finally karaoke (with a couple of stops at High Park's dog park along the way).

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