TORONTO, Dec. 3  -- Toronto city councilors voted to impose a 5-cent fee on plastic shopping bags at supermarkets next year to help with landfill costs.

After the 30-13 vote that included other environmental measures, Toronto Mayor David Miller said the concept of "free" bags was a fallacy, the Toronto Star reported.

"There's a cost to the city and the people of Toronto in disposing of them, there's a cost to the environment and there's a cost to the retailers," Miller said.

The measure will go into effect in June.

Toronto, Nov 20 : An Air Canada flight attendant helped land a plane after the co-pilot suffered an emotional breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, according to Ireland''s Air Accident Investigation Unit.

The Boeing 767 jet carrying 146 passengers and nine crewmembers was headed from Toronto to London''s Heathrow Airport on 28 January 2008, when the co-pilot suffered an emotional breakdown.

The Flight AC848''s captain, whose pilot position is also known as ‘commander’, asked the senior cabin supervisor to take the co-pilot away from the controls, leaving the flight attendant, who had a commercial pilot''s licence, to assist in a landing.

The plane was diverted to Shannon Airport, about 200 kilometres southwest of Dublin.

According to disciplinary panel, the Toronto nurse, who admitted to having sex with a patient while she worked there, will lose her license. Formerly employed at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the nurse admitted in an agreed statement of facts presented today at her disciplinary hearing that "she sexually abused the patient by engaging in sexual intercourse... among other things" during the man's inpatient and outpatient treatment. She was fired in 2007 when the affair came to light and the five-member disciplinary panel will now order a formal reprimand and recommend revocation of her professional license by the College of Nurses of Ontario.

Toronto, November 19 : A 44-year-old stripper has filed charges against a Mississauga strip club claiming she was sacked because of her age.

Kimberlee Ouwroulis, who had been a waitress before she began stripping at the age of 40, launched her complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario against the club ‘New Locomotion’, reports the National Post.

Kimberlee revealed that when she asked her then manager the reason for being fired, he offered to provide her solace by saying ‘another older girl had been fired the same day’.

Toronto  - The Canadian-American star architect Frank Gehry, 79, on Friday saw the opening of his latest innovative contribution to world culture - the Art Gallery of Ontario.

After designing awe-inspiring structures around the world - including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Dancing House in Prague - Gehry for the first time worked on a project in his native Canada.

Before the opening, Gehry spoke to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa about the long and often frustrating process of transforming and expanding Toronto's tradition-heavy Victorian landmark.

Toronto  - His best-known works read like a list of world landmarks - the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; the Dancing House in Prague.

Finally, Frank Gehry came home to his native Canada - and even to his old neighbourhood - with the opening of the Art Gallery of Ontario, a long-time Victorian landmark on Toronto's cityscape, which has been transformed and expanded under the architect's imaginative hand.