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• Star-studded films vie for attention in Toronto

  Get ready for a high-stakes, star-packed game of musical chairs as the 35th Toronto International Film Festival gets under way Thursday.

• Huge Jewish centre rises in Vaughan

  For Ted Sokolsky, there's a back-to-the-future feeling as an ambitious project launched by the Jewish community - part of a $450 million GTA-wide renewal plan - begins to emerge in Vaughan.

• Airline adds Toronto-to-China flights

  Torontonians travelling to China will have another flight option starting Nov. 27. On that date, Hainan Airlines will begin non-stop service from Toronto-Beijing, according to published reports.

• Four charged with mischief after allegedly beating 22 cars with rocks, bricks

  It was a boozy night ending in quite the hangover, as four people now face 88 charges of mischief under $5,000, for allegedly taking their hands, rocks and bricks to 22 cars lining Crawford Street.

• Ganja yoga combines marijuana and meditation

  Following on the barefoot heels of hot yoga, circus yoga and hip hop yoga, cannabis-enhanced classes offer a way to cut through inhibitions David Silverberg Published on Wednesday, Sep.

• Mayoral hopefuls say Toronto is too self-centred

  Toronto is too inward looking and it's costing jobs, mayoral candidates agreed in a rare moment of consensus.

• Big Boi enjoying his new solo career, but says Outkast will be back

  Big Boi, the Atlanta rapper - one-half of the six-time Grammy-winning duo Outkast - spent much of the past years watching as his solo debut "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty" languished in record-label limbo.

• Removing Fallopian tubes could cut cancer deaths

  CTV's medical specialist says that a group of researchers from British Columbian have found that ovarian cancer actually starts in the fallopian tubes and that a new procedure could reduce ovarian cancer by 50 per cent.

• Canada's oldest mayor seeks 12th term

  Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion, shown in a file photo, was first elected mayor of Mississauga in 1978.

• Scrap streetcars for subways: Ford unveils his transit plan

  Rob Ford says it's time to stop Toronto's "war on cars" and build subways instead of streetcar lines.