According to the Toronto Star, all immigrants applying to live in Canada as “skilled workers” - even those whose first languages are English or French - could soon be expected to complete an imperative language test, to demonstrate knowledge of the English language: one of Canada’s official languages.

Cheers Tavern. Most of you jump right into a sitcom, but for locals of East York, Toronto, Cheers is their handy Moe’s Tavern on the Danforth. Unless you were there, and maybe even if you were, you wouldn’t know there was anything particularly special about it. It was a vast and yawning space, eerily vacant everywhere save the bar, where Joe served up the sauce to a small handful of faithful alcoholics.