One month into the new NHL season, and this much is obvious: the Toronto Maple Leafs are a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, dressed in the league’s silly new jerseys. The Leafs are scoring more often than your younger sister, but they’re also leaking goals at a potentially historic rate. They’ve lost two games by [...]

Will the province take over the TTC? Apparently such rumours are all the buzz in political backrooms. Which are kind of like political bathrooms, except that the backrooms have no toilets or sinks or indeed any serious practical use, which is why they feature so prominently in government. Torontoist’s suggestion, from its own backroom: let [...]

Looking for something fun to do tonight and don’t want to spend much money? We have just the ticket (literally). Chicago’s The Ponys will be playing at Lee’s Palace this evening with Atlanta’s The Black Lips and local boys Action Makes, and courtesy of Against The Grain, we have two pairs of tickets to put [...]

Allegedly from Toronto, Rock Plaza Central took New York City by storm this weekend — opening for Oxford Collapse at The Glasslands in Brooklyn on Saturday, and for Montreal’s Malajube and Atlanta’s Snowden at the Mercury Lounge in Manhattan on Sunday. An unbelievably energized ensemble of strings, brass, and percussion, Rock Plaza Central just might [...]

Raptors fans have had to suffer a lot of humiliation over the last few years: There was the Vince Carter trade debacle, there was the night that Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points, and there was the 1-15 start last season that had ESPN speculating that the Raptors might be one of the worst teams in [...]

We don’t know about you, but it’s friggin cold out there. Well, not for some of you. It seems as though places that are supposed to be cold are warm and places that are supposed to be warm are cold. Or maybe that’s just us. Either way, we’re freezing. Austinist said goodbye to their co-editor [...]

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent 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! Torontoist Flickr Pool member room929 (John Fortin) always keeps us on our toes. Take this photo of our Leafs [...]

The province has given municipalities the power to set closing time for bars. Toronto even gets the power to add additional taxes to booze. The province might even give this power to other municipalities if it works well in Toronto. Was there a link between the man who took a shot at police in Etobicoke [...]

Torontoist knows how crazy rent can be in this city. It’s gotten so bad that Toronto is slowly creeping up and catching up with New York City for cost of office space. (It now costs $50.47 US per square foot a year to maintain an office in Toronto, up from $37.71 last July, 9% behind [...]

The Toronto Maple Leafs looked like a real team this past weekend. After a hard fought shootout loss to the New York Islanders on Friday, they went on to capture their third point in two nights, defeating the defending Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning 5-1 at the Air Canada Centre. After avoiding a trade [...]

The Raptors exploded this weekend, posting back-to-back wins in Atlanta on Friday and New Jersey on Saturday. In doing so, they also moved out of the NBA’s basement and improved their season mark to 3-15. And if it couldn’t get any better, Big Man Ha-fay-el Ar-RU-joe almost took out Vince Carter. VC left midway through [...]