As a celebrated Canadian indie musician, Julie Doiron is best known for her involvement in Eric's Trip as well as her Juno award winning collaboration with the Wooden Stars. But these days she's taking time out from her busy music career to teach yoga. In Toronto.

The annual Toronto Santa Speedo Run raised eyebrows across Yorkville on Saturday as a group of scantily-clad runners hit the streets wearing their best red speedos and not much else (in Boston, it would appear, they're a bit more creative).

The temperature hovered at around -3C, but a nasty wind from the west ensured that the participants had to deal with at least a little discomfort. But it was all for a good cause. This was the run's seventh year in support of the Hospital for Sick Children, over which time it's raised $180,000 for holiday gifts for kids who are confined to the hospital.

A couple of days ago we mentioned that Parkdale will soon be home to Toronto's first pinball-themed cafe. At the time we noted that details on this new venture were sparse but today we tracked down the owners and asked them to fill us in on some of the details. Here's what we learned in five questions with the owners of the new Pinball Cafe.

This weekend, Downsview Park was packed with cars, girls, and skates from across the world — all here for the same reason: the first-ever World Cup in Roller Derby, hosted by our very own Toronto Roller Derby league.

The rumours are true. Toronto is upping its pinball quotient. First there was a downtown bowling alley, then came ping pong and last week we saw the opening of a store in Parkdale that sells old-school video game systems. Next up, naturally, is pinball and it will come in the form of a pinball-themed cafe that will open in Spring 2012 next to Yummy Stuff.

As a bit of a nerdy kid, I always had mixed emotions when I heard that recess would be canceled due to bad weather. Staying inside usually sucked, but it meant I could play pen and paper games with my nerdy friends. This weekend, at Gamercamp, playing and talking about video games and board games was pretty much all anyone did. So recess.to's big Sunday event, full of running around and playing outside was much anticipated. Until it rained. In elementary school, we would have said that recess was canceled. But thank to quick thinking from recess.to's David Fono, we ran around the halls of George Brown College instead.