“Don’t leave me Hillas.” Those were probably the last words Lena Williams expected to say to her husband on Christmas Eve 1911. Around 6:45 pm that evening she and Hillas, who was on his way to his job as a printer at the Globe, boarded an overcrowded streetcar at Queen and Broadview. The vehicle was [...]

Wiggles the Pig is having both a bad and a good day—bad because she fell off a moving transport truck on the 401, but good because she’s been saved from becoming someone’s dinner. Earlier today, a driver saw Wiggles get squeezed out of the reportedly overloaded livestock truck, causing the pig’s leg to break at [...]

Map from the Star’s Map of the Week. What to make of a map of cycling accidents that shows that the most dangerous street for cyclists also happens to have a bike lane? The Star‘s Map of the Week blog presented that dilemma to cyclists in yesterday’s map of traffic accidents involving cyclists. With all [...]

Toronto has experienced some erratic and spectacular weather recently, so pair a thunderstorm with our often rotten, hollow tree canopy and carnage often ensues. This particular space became double parked around six this evening near Shaw and Harrison Streets, and though this type of destruction is not uncommon, things might have been worse. Now, would [...]