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Teddy bears

Fact Sheet: The truth about teddy bears

In 2010, Travelodge in the U.K. launched Bears United, a campaign to reunite lost teddies with their owners—36 per cent of whom happened to be adults...;

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Fact Sheet: What can you get for $52.1 billion

Last week’s release of the annual list of the richest Canadians didn’t contain a whole lot of surprises, but it did make us wonder just how much...;

PHOTO: CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Fact Sheet: Bloodied but unbowed

In 2010, when the province granted approval for Ultimate Fighting Championship matches in Ontario, boosters boasted that Toronto would become a mecca...;

Gun

Fact Sheet: Border-control crossing

Gun crime has politicians clamouring for handgun bans, bullet boycotts, and extradition of perps to anywhere but here (maybe Bolton?). But how did the...;

Photo: CP PHOTO/J.P. Moczulski

Eight tips for Toronto’s job-seekers

The city’s unemployment rate stood at 9.2 per cent in 2011, down slightly from its 10 per cent peak in 2008, but well above the national average of...;

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Fact Sheet: Great Lake

A lot of Torontonians think Lake Ontario is a toxic cesspool, unfit even for wading. It’s not—but it used to be. Today, the GTA has some of the cleanest...;

The Grid

A year in the life of The Grid

Ever wonder what goes into a year of creating a weekly city magazine? We crunched the numbers on all things Grid to find out how we saw the city over...;

PHOTOGRAPH: Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star

Fact Sheet: What’s up with those Yonge subway closures?

Everybody loves to gripe about the TTC, but those taking the subway north of Eglinton have especially good reason to complain—the TTC is entering the...;

Coyotes

Fact Sheet: ranger danger

After Oakville police shot and killed a coyote that attacked an eight-year-old girl on Jan. 19, the city’s east end experienced a brief but intense...;