Word Camp Toronto, this year being run by the folks at PHUG, have started the WCT2009 Awards.
Submissions to the awards are free, but you must submit any sites by April 1st.
The categories this year are:

Best Theme Design
Best Plug-in
Best Student Blog/WP Site
Best Professional/Corporate Blog/WP Site
Best Education/Instructional Blog/WP Site
Best Creative use WordPress (outside of a standard blog)
Best Blog from any Category

Wordcamp Toronto 2009 still has its contest open for finding a Logo Design.  The submission deadline for that contest is Feb 15th 2009 at 5pm EST.
Submit your entries at WordCamp Toronto 2009 …

For people wanting to increase they’re development library and help a good cause SitePoint, publisher of a large collection of books on web development, has put together a sale to help in the relief efforts of the Australian brushfires.
For US $29.00, you can get a digital download of five of SitePoints books (at what would cost a total of US $149.75).
The sale is only on for three days and ends Friday, February 13th.
Here’s a list of all the books on sale:
Design

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
The Photoshop Anthology: 101 …

The session schedule for PodCamp Toronto 2009 is now open for people to edit and to put their sessions into the time-slot of their choosing.
44 of the more than 50 sessions have been scheduled so far, so if you want to plan your time you can get a pretty good idea of how things will play out.  Needless to say that figuring out a plan with the more than 50 sessions being run over the two day event will be challenging for most.
There are so many interesting sessions being run …

Today Mayor David Miller announced on Twitter:
“Announced Toronto Helps toronto.ca/torontohelps -programmes to help seniors, job seekers, youth, tenants: please RT” – @mayormiller
In these times not only is it especially important for government to have programs in place to help people, but like with anything else online, nobody will ever use it unless the information is easy to find, easy to navigate, and designed in a way to let users accomplish their goals.
Besides Toronto.ca still looking like a website from 1996, Toronto Helps uses a horrible double select box navigation.  The …

Taking a cue from BookCamp London, a group of Canadians have organized an unconference in Toronto to bring together authors, publishers, and technologists to discuss the future of the book.  BookCampTO is a free one day event being held June 6th at the MaRS Centre already has a list of 45 session ideas that people have volunteered to lead, or that people want to hear discussed.
“The future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age.”
Some of the 45 session ideas listed for BookCampTO include:

Building community to …