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Racism at Ryerson? Look carefully or you'll miss it

Anti-racism task force condemns as naive those who don't believe discrimination exists on diverse downtown campus

The exterior of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, where it overlooks Lake Michigan.
Theatre

The Windy City is blowing Toronto away

The city likes to boast that it's the third-biggest theatre capital after New York and London. Try telling that to Chicago

Chef Chris Brown, foreground centre, shows students (from left) Mark Thiele, Jason Lixfeld, and Atul Tiwari how to sauce and plate the first dish of the night (Tim Fraser for The Globe and Mail)
Food

How I learned to love the heat and stay in the kitchen

Toronto top chef Chris Brown invites newbies into his kitchen

Cool Toronto rest-lounge Cinq 01 offers of-the-moment food like foie gras hot dogs.
Restaurant review

Cinq01 is a great date spot

Cool and clubby, this Toronto resto-lounge is perfect for couples

TTC union head lashes out at riders, management

‘Stop harrasing people who are doing their jobs,' Bob Kinnear tells news conference

Trustee rebuffs board's demand for apology

TDSB chair says maverick Matlow flouted code of conduct rules when he accused board of going on a “drunken spending binge”

Gallagher won't attend next sentencing for attacker

Oasis frontman no longer plans to show at Mar. 23 hearing for Danny Sullivan, who admitted shoving Gallagher at a concert in 2008

Race for mayor

Smitherman is game to campaign

But a senior Liberal strategist says a launch for the mayoralty on Super Bowl Sunday “isn't very smart”

Police search for leads in shooting

Thirty-year-old Glenn Lowe killed behind a home in Jane and Trethewey area

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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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