Maybe it was too much of a long shot, but I doubt many of you will be surprised to learn this morning that the Masonic Temple at Yonge and Davenport will not be reprising its role as a live music venue. Well, not full time anyway.

London, Ont.-based IT company Info-Tech Research Group have bought the building for $12.5 million and plan to convert the storied venue in to a new location for its Toronto satellite office, currently located on Front Street East.

Rob Ford used his weekly radio show to brush off a drink-throwing incident that saw a woman charged with assault. The 27-year-old reportedly threw the beverage - reportedly a slushie (maybe a Slurpee?) - at the mayor during a walkabout at the College Street Taste of Little Italy festival. It missed, but some of the liquid splashed on Ford and he and members of his team chased after the girl.

"It's no big deal," he said, though he's now considering hiring a security team.

When the sprawling Eaton Centre devoured a large portion of the west side of Yonge Street between Queen and Dundas in the mid-70s, it replicated a much smaller shopping centre construction project started almost a century earlier just 150 metres to the south.

Built in 1883, the Toronto Arcade was the first modern shopping mall in the city. Its long wooden passageway created a private cut-through from Yonge to Victoria Street containing an eclectic mix of stores. Businesses as diverse as a dentist, business college, and a cattle dealer had a storefronts in the building that would be a landmark on Yonge Street for more than 70 years.

Every Torontonian has a TTC horror story: trapped on an overflowing platform unable to board an already full train, packed tight in a stationary car for a delay to clear, paying a fare only to find the line is out. I could go on, but you already know how it goes.

After finally getting released from a queue behind a disabled train only to be stymied a few moments later by a passenger assistance alarm, I thought it worthwhile to dig into the TTC's official records on outages - technical faults, track fires, belligerent riders, weather, the whole lot - in the hope of getting a bigger picture of what a year of problems looks like on paper.

Toronto police knew about the existence of video allegedly showing Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine months before newspaper reports first surfaced. The Globe and Mail says a "source familiar with the investigation" for the information. The news came as police raided 39 addresses and arrested 28 people, several at the Dixon Rd. apartment building where it was reported the alleged tape was kept.

Talking about the co-ordinated operation, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair avoided saying whether Rob Ford came up as part of the investigation. He did say, however, that police are "aware of that picture" of Ford with murder victim Anthony Smith and that Mohammed Khattak, another pictured man, "form[s] part of this investigation." More information is expected today.

At midday tomorrow train number 5736, currently the oldest in the TTC's subway fleet, will make its final run round the Yonge-University-Spadina line. The H5 model, noticeable for its yellow interior highlights and narrow doorways, has been sold with several other preloved Toronto trains to a new rail project in Lagos, Nigeria. This is a better fate than what faced the H4. Retired about a year and a half ago, it's last stop was the scrapyard.

The H5 fleet entered service in 1976 and were the first in the city to feature built-in air conditioning. Originally fitted orange and brown vinyl seats, a major overhaul program in 1997 brought the now standard red fabric seats to the aging trains and tweaked the interior layout.