Home Depot wants to open an outlet at Portland and Queen W. as many long-time small businesses in the area die from a combination of rising rents and a changing business climate.

A partial transcript of a chat with a Symantec representative. I found out the hard way that the newest versions of Norton Internet Security don't work with Win2000:

Imran(Tue Oct 2 10:34:29 EST 2007)>Great! In this case shall i help you to renew the subscription or you will do it from www.Symantecstore.com/Renewal  ?

Mr._William M._Doskoch(Tue Oct 2 13:34:14 EST 2007)>If you could help, that would be great.

Imran(Tue Oct 2 10:35:00 EST 2007)>Because Only 2 versions  2005 and 2006 version softwares are compatible with windows 2000.

Mr._William M._Doskoch(Tue Oct 2 13:34:30 EST 2007)>I guess I should update to the 2006 version.

Imran(Tue Oct 2 10:35:20 EST 2007)>Excellant! Not a problem ,  Anything for you , Just i want you to be happy

From globeandmail.com:

Sun Media has turned to a veteran of the Toronto newspaper wars to run the newsroom of its flagship paper, The Toronto Sun.

Lou Clancy, a former Sun editor who has also served in senior roles at the Toronto Star, has been named editor-in-chief of the tabloid daily.

Here's what Clancy had to say in the Toronto Sun story:

"Content is our No. 1 job," he said. "The Toronto Sun will be the first place for people to go to for local news, whether it is in the paper or the Internet."

Oddly enough, the Star didn't report on this momentous event. :)

Globeandmail.com -- which made a great leap forward in 2006 when it allowed people to comment directly on individual stories -- has added a 'most recommended' feature, allowing people to vote on whether they would recommend a given article to others.

The site's most popular page already had lists of most read and e-mailed. There is also a list of most-commented-upon stories that shows up on the home page.

Right now, however, the most-recommended results don't show up on the home page (yet?). Nor is there a prominent way to vote on recommending a story (see USA Today for a comparison; here's my reaction to its Web 2.0-ification). At globeandmail.com, you have to read the individual story all the way to the bottom (and who does that?) to see the link.

TheStar.com has most read, e-mailed and searched.

CBCNews.ca has most popular, e-mailed and blogged. CBC.ca and TheStar.com both display that information more prominently than globeandmail.com does.

CTV.ca has a short list on its home page of the site's five most popular news stories.

Canada.com appears to be bereft of such Web 2.0 bells and whistles.