Tzvi Erez in a photo from his YouTube page
Crime

Mensch next door charged with Ponzi scheming

Printer and master pianist suspected of $27-million fraud

Patrick Lin, executive chef at Senses
Food

Ringing in the Year of the Tiger with a $90 snail

An authentic Cantonese feast includes abalone, the equivalent of popping the cork on a pricey Bordeaux

Marcus Gee

From garbage to transit, unions need to yell less, listen more

TTC workers need to think about the health of their enterprise, namely the happiness of their customers

The Dragon Dynasty Group’s Etobicoke restaurant charts an ideal middle path between high-end and low. Almost nothing on its dim sum menu disappoints.
Toronto

Restaurant review: Grand Chinese Cuisine

Greater than the dim sum of its parts, Grand Chinese Cuisine lives up to its name

Passengers board a TTC streetcar; the TTC come under fire recently over rider photos and videos of what they deem unacceptable service.

Public transit

TTC to offer series of fixes to mend rider relations

Initiatives include using ‘secret shoppers' to monitor employee performance

Real estate

Smashing the MLS monopoly

Critics lambaste the Multiple Listing Service as a throwback that penalizes prospective buyers. But what would happen if it lost its power?

G20 venue puts Toronto, Ottawa at loggerheads

Federal government wants to host global economic summit in downtown convention centre; mayor and council prefer Exhibition Place just outside city core

Zoologist urges council to end zoo's elephant program

Animal rights group enlists leading expert on elephant behaviour in attempt to remove pachyderms from Toronto Zoo

Giambrone unlikely to run for his council seat

E-mail to supporter in wake of sex scandal suggests former Toronto mayoral hopeful might not try for another term as councillor either

Report finds THS cash flowing to lawyers

Findings reveal society spent more than $423,000 on lawyers while failing to pay off hydro bill

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Inside City Hall
Is Rob Ford officially in? Not according to Rob Ford

Etobicoke Councillor denies report that he has confirmed he'll run for mayor. He's still "seriously considering" it ... for now

Parties
Annual Winter White Party

A colour-coded fundraiser at Cinq01 for the Windfall Clothing Service

Nolan Bryant and Ainsley Kerr at the Annual Winter White Party for the Windfall Clothing Service, a charity dedicated to helping the homeless.
Toronto Board of Trade dinner

Politicians and business leaders break bread for the 122nd year in a row

George Smitherman, Senator Pamela Wallin and Ontario's Minister of Government Services Harinder Takhar at the Toronto Board of Trade's 122nd Annual Dinner
2nd Annual Walrus Foundation Gala

Writers, musicians, actors and readers gather to support the non-profit mag

Theatre
Setting lessens ghost story's fright factor

2.5 Stars

Moving the action from floor to floor and room to room makes things less spooky, not more

Christine Horne, with Clinton Walker, is enthralling in The Turn of the Screw at Toronto’s Campbell House Museum.
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Southbound DVP reopened at Eglinton. Live cameras and updates