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Vintage Toronto Ads: Pop 84 for Xmas 85
Source: Toronto Life, December 1985. Christmas marketing tip from the mid-1980s: if you’re an Italian denim label who wants to push the newsboy/urchin look to tony Toronto shoppers, recruit the most sullen batch of...
Peeve Patrol
Photo by SirCharlie from the Torontoist Flickr pool. A few weeks back, Toronto Police Traffic Services Sergeant Tim Burrows asked Twitter and Facebook followers to submit their Top Ten driving pet peeves [PDF]. According...
Much Hoop-La About Andrew Wiggins
Canada invented basketball, right? May as well be good at it. And, evidently, we’re getting better if you look at some of the emerging talent—in particular, thirteen-year-old Andrew Wiggins from Richmond Hill. The son...
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Third Floor, First Rate
If you've ever pulled an all-nighter to finish an assignment, you can stop patting yourself on the back, slacker, because a group of fourth-year Ryerson students put all your cut-and-paste efforts to shame with the...
Le Petit Castor You Ho This Is All Your Fault
Future site of the West Queen West mission to Rosedale. The Drake Hotel is not quite a country of its own yet, but it will soon open its first embassy—in Rosedale....
Newsstand: November 24, 2009
A lot of us marked the death of Jane Creba, a fifteen-year-old innocent bystander who was fatally caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting near Yonge and Dundas on Boxing Day in 2005, as...
Urban Planner: November 24, 2009
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well...
The Daily Photoist: November 24, 2009
Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo or (two) from a photographer in Torontoist's Flickr Pool, our way of showing off their great work and starting the day off as prettily as...
Haydain Neale, 1970–2009
Yesterday, surrounded by his wife, daughter, brother-in-law, and friends, musician Haydain Neale died at Mount Sinai Hospital following a seven-month fight with lung cancer. Lead singer of jacksoul, Neale was born in Hamilton and...
Hamlet: Protypical Slacker Douche
What a piece of work is Rand! Photo by Tim Fennell. Let's not lie, maybe some of us went to see that four-hour, unabridged Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet back when we were in...
Rebuilding a Child's Paradise
Ryva Novick, seen here overlooking a reading session, founded the Children's Storefront over thirty years ago. Imagine a place packed with your favourite books and toys—a place with no schedules, few rules, and filled...
The notion of reading a book on an electronic device has always been problematic: the book is pretty much a perfect medium, and it’s difficult to improve on perfection. There’s portability, resolution, texture, random...
Transit City and Transit Cities
Transit City: the TTC's plan to build a network of light rail, extending dedicated transit infrastructure to many of Toronto's neighbourhoods that lack it, thereby increasing residents' quality of life, reducing our collective environmental...
Televisualist: A Kinder, Gentler Televisualist
Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Jillian Michaels stalks a former Biggest Loser...
The Making of a Medley
Photo of Colin Medley by Ken Craine. Long before Colin Medley was the budding-star director of the Torontoist (and some website called "Pitchfork")-approved Diamond Rings video "All Yr Songs," he was planting his scene...
Newsstand: November 23, 2009
By winter's end, at the rate we're going, the CN Tower will be converted into luxury lofts with the world's highest ceilings. And when Toronto is nothing but condos, will we have to start slowly...
Urban Planner: November 23, 2009
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well...
The Daily Photoist: November 23, 2009
Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo or (two) from a photographer in Torontoist's Flickr Pool, our way of showing off their great work and starting the day off as prettily as...
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse
Torontoist is one of thirteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list that is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere...
Historicist: "The city that nobody loves"
Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Lister Sinclair and Andrew Allan in the CBC studio. CBC Still...
