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Toronto - Resfest Vice Guide To Travel

If the one and only reason you should attend this, is to find out that Bulgarian's sell dirty bombs like the Chinese sell bootlegs, Pakistanis can make you a Kalashnikov for $50, and the radiation is so high in Chernobyl that it will make your nuts swell to the size of casavas.

NEW screening time for Toronto.  8:30pm

Paul Frank Industries and VICE proudly present the Toronto screening of the
VICE Guide To Travel at the Resfest Film Festival in Canada.

Toronto, ON
Sunday - 3rd Dec. at 8:30pm
The Royal Theatre
(608 College St.)

Canada - Solo 100/100 Wrap Up

When Vice decided to throw 100 parties in 100 nights, we were kind of
excited. It seemed like it would be non-stop fun. But try counting to a
hundred...can't do it, right? Goes on and on, doesn't it?

The writing was on the wall as early as party #2 when our Alberta guy Mike
Tweedie got thrown in the drunk tank. We learned that yes, you can get drunk
off Coors Light, and that this was going to be a freaking marathon of
excess.

Toronto - VICE Guide to Travel

VICE founder and VICE Guide to Travel correspondent Suroosh Alvi will be on CBC's esteemed The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulopoulopoulos (whew), tonight at 11pm. In addition to giving first hand accounts of his experiences in the gun markets of Pakistan, among other places you'd rather not go, Suroosh will weigh the merits of Ginger Ale versus Red Bull with fellow straight edger, Stroumboulopoulopoulopoulos.

Canada - VICE DC Last Rites

Since VICE and DC love any excuse to get dressed up, get sauced and talk shit about art, we decided to host two Halloween parties in Vancouver and Toronto, featuring the work of some of our favorite artists.

But art shows are generally boring. So to spice up things, we made sure both venues were true to the Halloween theme.  The Vancouver show was held at The Chapel art gallery:  East Vancouver’s century old funeral home turned art gallery.  And the Toronto event was held at Bates and Dodds Funeral Home across from Trinity Bellwoods park; an active funeral parlor rich with the warm aroma of embalming fluid.

Canada - Last Rites

Fucking right we'll be doing a party for Halloween! It's a pretty obvious move.  Essentially Halloween is your dirty little secrets played out in an open forum.  It's the one time you can put on women’s underwear and stockings, parade your bare ass in the streets and not worry about having some jock kick your shit in and scream "fag" till he's blue in the face.  Anyhoo, our friends at DC share our sentiments and decided to partner up with us and do something really cool.

Snuff films.

Toronto - Vice Runs Marathon

Like bright ideas?  Vice does.  Just to try something completely out of character, the purveyors of Vice Canada completed a corporate relay of 42km in the Toronto Marathon on Sunday. With the help of our friends at Puma, we contributed $600 to find a cure for cancer, threw on our turquoise Trons (thanks Spy Optic) and went for a jog on a fine fall day. The fact that most of us are alcoholic, fastfood consuming smokers who at best spend 45 minutes a year at the gym was only the start of our problems. Organizing team pick-up and drop-offs at the eight relay transfer points proved to be a logistical nightmare for our hung-over drivers who consider anything north of Bloor “outside the city”.

Canada - Pop Montreal

Canadians think that VICE shined Canadians in order to be American. Far from the truth guys. In fact, those accusations really wet our feelings and and make our eyes well up with tears. Without getting too flag-waving-beer-commercial gay about life, VICE hasn't forgot about its Canadian roots at all. More specifically, we haven't forgotten about Montreal: our beloved nostalgic hometown.

As with every POP Montreal, we'll be there making our pressence known. But this year we're going to kill the festival like Mark Lepine raging at an all-girls private school.

First, we have a Spank Rock party on Thursday.

Then we have our cinq à sept on Saturday. That's a 5 to 7, for all you assholes who refused to learn french during elementary school. Think of happy hour, but with food and for 2hrs starting at 5pm. If that makes sense.

Then we have our official closing party on Sunday. Its a live show with the Constantines, Favorite Sons and SS Cardiac.

Heille gang de putes, on se saoûle la face! Tabernak!

Toronto - Slayer SS

Over the weekend we had a stray cat walk into our lives.  Literally.  In true Parkdale fashion, this tiny black cat walked into one of our employee's apartment and made herself at home.  Being the cat whores that we are, we decided to take her in and crown her as the official Vice Canada mouser.  And so far she hasn't disappointed.  In less than 24 hrs at our Queen and Dunn digs, she's killed 5 mice, leaving one headless (we suspect she ate the head due to her voracious appetite), won the hearts of all the staffers and even tried fighting a Rhodesian Ridgeback.  Yes that's a dog and yes they are the size of small ponies.  Standing no bigger than a full grown Chihuahua she's one tough kitty.

We're going to keep her until our mice problem goes away.  She does a good job at keeping those fuckers at bay.  Given her success rate, we're guessing she'll be up to 10 dead vermin by later tonight and maybe even 13 by tomorrow morning.  We should probably be starting a pool for this.

Here's a picture of Slayer.

CANADA - Adicolor Party

Ever since our Vancouver Adidas party we've been calling the VICE shoe the
Cupcakes.  We're not too sure if that’s the real moniker shoe nerds are
giving them or whether its simply in reference to the pink cupcakes being
served at the aforementioned party.  Either way we're sticking to it even if
it does sound a little homo.

On May 4th, we launched the shoe in Toronto with a party at a yoga studio.
Tokyo Police Club and Sail Boats Are White played and they fucking ruled.
The dudes from Sailboats... got half naked during their set and the lead
singer, who was gracefully hanging from the rafters lost his grip and
slammed face first not-so-gracefully to the floor.   Then he got up and
continued singing.  He was later rewarded with a raucous chorus of cheers.

Everyone was happy.

CANADA - DEAR VICE

Dear Vice,
I saw this PNK FLYD number plate in downtown Toronto. Since then I have also spotted LNUX RLZ and RANDOMZ, I really ought to carry my camera around more often.

The other weird thing about Canada...