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Pizza della Pistola is Toronto's newest pizzeria, and its loveable, no-nonsense, gun-wielding owner is EVERYTHING. Located on the corner of Dufferin and St. Clair in Toronto's Corso Italia neighbourhood, Pizza della Pistola is making big waves in the GTA food scene. Head chef and owner Luigi Sambicci has his roots in Naples, Italy, a city that many argue is the birthplace of pizza as we know it today. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels But Sambicci's traditional past aside, there's nothing traditional about the way he sticks a gun in your face the second you step through the front door. "Get the fuck outta my goddamn house," says Sambicci. "I didn't invite you here, so get the hell out, and take your microphone with you." Sambicci's specialty dish is his Margarita pizza, consisting of his top-secret dough, buffalo mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, and just the right amount of tomato sauce. It's a delicious and tantaliz

Connor Glib, who has spent the last thirteen years of his life trapped in a spider box on one of the original sets of Fear Factor , told reporters Thursday that he has no regrets. A contestant on the fifth season of the show, Glib says he was one of many people who were chosen to go into the spider box on that fateful afternoon in 2005. The difference, however, was that the producers made a last minute decision to cut Glib from the show. Photo by Brett Sayles from Pexels "He was a little intense," says Lauren Chang, key grip for Fear Factor between 2001 and 2006. "He wasn't really what we were looking for. And I guess we just all forgot about him. We had to shoot an outdoor scene later that day with, like, deer uteruses or skunk anuses or something. Obviously Joe was pretty excited about that. And we just left, I guess. It was our last day in that particular studio too." Though he has wasted a considerable portion of his life trapped in the fetal pos

29-year-old University of Calgary professor Kyle Schmidt, who just last year earned his PhD in English literature from UBC, says that while he loves his job, he is always careful not to inspire his students too much. "I mostly teach first year English classes," Schmidt says. "So I understand that my students are at a very impressionable stage in their lives. That's why I have to be careful not to get them too excited about literature, you know, careful not to give them any ideas." Schmidt says that while he feels that English is an important part of any post-secondary education, he would never encourage any of his students to pursue it past second year. "It would really kill me if it turned out I were the reason that one of my fresh-faced, intelligent students decided to major in English," Schmidt says. "Like all teachers, I have to work hard to keep my students engaged, which isn't always easy when we're constantly reading Shakesp

Why am I at the food court in Four Hills mall at eleven o’clock a.m.?   Don’t you worry about it. Just keep walking, mister. This doesn’t concern you. I got business, important things to attend to. Don’t look at that. That’s all part of it, don’t you worry. Yeah, I still use manilla envelopes. Call me old fashioned, but you can’t hack into a manilla envelope, no matter how hard you try. Just try. Things of such high importance, of such high calibre, can’t be trusted to sit on a hard drive, vulnerable, weak, exposed, raw as flesh. No. Avert your eyes. Take a step back. Or two. Better yet, skedaddle. Don’t get yourself involved in this. It’ll only come back to bite you. Get out while you can. Go for a walk. Get yourself a coffee. Get out of here, far away. The sooner the better. It’s for your own good, don’t you know. Serious. He’ll be here soon, so take a hike, capisce? It takes a special quality, a certain character, to navigate such murky affairs as those I wade through o

Looking for a photographer to take cute, Christmassy shots of you and your bae frolicking in a spruce forest? Know a potter who makes artisanal mugs perfect for hot chocolate on cold nights? Are you throwing a low-key, ugly sweater christmas party that needs a jazz guitarist to play Vince Guaraldi covers? Don't have enough money to pay for any of these things but refuse to go without them? Well you're in luck! I have compiled five air-tight ways to avoid paying artists this Christmas while still benefitting from their work! 1. Offer them experience. A little known fact about sculptors, musicians, and artists in general is that they are actually quite inexperienced. Therefore, what they need more than anything is practice doing precisely what you want. Even the most skilled artist can improve! So ignore the years of work they have dedicated to mastering their art and offer them something they cannot resist: unpaid labour. 2. Buy them a case of beer or a bag of wee

BC's New Democratic leader John Horgan announced earlier this week that the government would be going ahead with the nearly $11 billion Site C dam slated for construction near the province's Fort St. John. Numerous Canadians from the political left and right have taken to Facebook to voice their concerns regarding the necessity of the dam. Given the contentious nature of the project, it is perhaps unsurprising that many of these Facebook posts have inspired heated and often confrontational responses. One such post, which started a fiery dialogue between Hugh McClinton and Anders Goffer, became particularly confrontational, so much so that it caught the eye of one of Facebook's newly hired Content  Moderators, Stephen Li. According to Li, such heated debates are common on Facebook, especially during divisive political announcements. However, even Li was surprised at how quickly this particular argument over BC's Site C dam managed to make reference to Adolf Hit