In typical fashion, we’ve all been talking for decades about a fixed rail link between the busiest airport in Canada and the busiest surface transit hub in Canada, but despite near-universal agreement on its necessity, the project is still vapour. The $200 million+ Blue22 plan designed in the mid-’90s was originally slated for completion right [...]

Federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion hints that Canadians may be ready for a federal election this fall. Still, Dion is hoping to receive a signed, notarized affidavit from every single Canadian of voting age assuring him that they are absolutely, 100 percent cool with having an election; otherwise it’s off. The European Union’s environment commissioner [...]

Following the 2005 crash of an Air France A340, the airline is suing the GTAA for having a ravine at the end of runway 24L instead of a safe overrun margin. A coroner’s inquest into a 1978 crash at Pearson recommended installing a 300-metre safety apron, but nothing became of it. Air France continues to [...]

While we’re on the subject of TTC maps (as we often are), we might as well include the most wildly ambitious one of all. Reader Ryan Felix sent us his subway map, which he describes as a “fantasy map of the TTC” in 2050. Felix says it was “created in hope to influence people to [...]

City backs away from plan to buy its own sidewalk food carts. And to think, it only took about ten thousand “what the hell is the city doing buying food carts, just let people buy their own damn food carts” comments and articles for the City to get the message! Toronto is getting more responsive [...]

Some Canadian cattle will now be allowed into the United States following a 4-year ban in the wake of several cases of “mad cow” disease. American Homeland Security regulations will still require that any bovines wishing to cross the border carry a valid passport. The latest UN report on climate change says that global disaster [...]

Pearson Airport reduces landing fees. The move was cheered by airlines, who can now drop their prices accordingly. Oh, wait, they won’t do that, they’ll only drop their prices by maybe about ten percent of what they could with the savings, and pocket the rest. Capitalism works! Stéphane Dion says Canadians don’t want another election [...]

Employees of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission, which now oversees the Ontario Lottery Gaming Corporation, will not be permitted to buy lottery tickets in Ontario. A representative of the affected staffers complained, “why do you think we wanted to work here in the first place?” before shotgunning a 40-ouncer of Absolut and collapsing to the [...]

One of the pillars of the TTC’s plan to trim its budget is to cut some twenty-one “poor performing” bus routes. But what, exactly, is a “poor performing” route? As it turns out, transit whiz Steve Munro claims, it sure isn’t what the TTC says it is: “in a flat fare system,” he writes, “it [...]

Toronto had a violent weekend with nine people shot and four of them killed, including an 11-year-old boy at a birthday party. Two more people were stabbed. Cue relatives wailing, Police Chief Bill Blair saying “this is unacceptable,” and headlines like “Saturday Night Bloodbath.” We’ve seen all this before. Solutions, anyone? On Sunday, about 8,000 [...]

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It’s our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! At 3,340 metres, Runway 23 is the longest airstrip at Pearson International Airport, and watching jets land and take off from [...]