By David Topping

We publish a lot of articles on Torontoist, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Populist is a weekly recap, appearing every Sunday night, that features some of the coolest, most interesting, most commented, and most recommended posts from our past week.

• Marc Lostracco wrote about two vastly different treatments for children struggling with gender identity; said goodbye to Sue Johanson’s Talk Sex, the show that made us comfortable with grandmotherly women telling us sexy things; and wrote about Bullfrog Power and its new credit system.
• David Topping wrote about a precedent-setting media ethics ruling that will force CityTV to admit error for using a Flickr photographer’s work without permission or credit, and interviewed the (anonymous, but not single!) woman behind Craigslist Missed Connections Addicts Anonymous.
• Sarah Nicole Prickett wrote about a U of T student who tried out homelessness this week. There were less lols than we were expecting.
• Johnnie Walker + Canadian Club = bad mix (this week’s most commented-on post).
• Cate Simpson and Miles Storey covered Stephan Marinoiu’s hunger strike, for the benefit of Marinoiu’s autistic son and other children like him.
• Kevin Bracken featured three lovely retooled $5 bills.
• Jamie Bradburn found which winch one can manically turn when one wishes for a winch in a pinch.
• Jonathan Goldsbie wrote about the TTC ad design ripoff that wasn’t.
• Val Dodge discovered a nice set of pipes on Merton Street.
• Anupa Mistry wrote about the “utter fiasco” of English CCTV, and what it means for us.
• Dory Carr-Harris and Val Dodge got the scoop on TYPE’s new home on the Danforth.
• Stephen Johns wrote about the rebirth—maybe, hopefully—of North York’s Toronto Centre for the Arts.
• Jaime Woo is tired of Sex and the City hype. We heard that at the end of the movie, everyone dies (it’s the apocalypse or something) but there’s still one of those concluding Carrie Bradshaw monologues where she says something overwrought and turn-of-phrase-y, like a pun on “armageddon,” because it was the name of a bar the girls went to the night before.
• Readers’ favourite photo of the past week (by recommends) was Friday’s shot of a swan on Lake Ontario, at the Scarborough Bluffs, by missyv110.
• In columns this week, there were new editions of Wild Toronto (the Red Bat—this week’s most recommended post), Historicist (what’s hidden in Trinity Bellwoods), Reel Toronto (Tommy Boy), Vandalist (Specter’s latest), Vintage Toronto Ads (CFRB 1010), Illustration Sunday (peregrine falcons), Snappy Answers (missed connections), Portrait Project (Eugene Levy), and Tourist (Tiananmen Square and Bukhara).

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