Google has always been known for its clean, lightweight, ad-free search page, but Canada's largest provider of broadband internet is under fire today for messing with it. Toronto-based Rogers has begun testing a controversial technique that allows the media empire to insert its own content into another entity's web page, angering net neutrality proponents. According to a tip passed to L.A.-based technology expert Lauren Weinstein, the system being employed is manufactured by the "in-browser...

With the provincial election upon us, Toronto’s Davenport riding is in for a shakeup as a new candidate enters the fray: Lucky, Felis catus siamensis. Presumably asking for a ballot write-in, Lucky’s campaign statement outlines a concern with the declining quality of life in Toronto’s neighbourhoods, and promises to bring accountability to the riding. “If [...]

White collar theft is relatively unexciting as news stories go, but yesterday’s verdict from a Chicago courtroom fosters a special sort of antipathy toward the insufferable Lord and Lady Black of Crossharbour. It’s not so much the US$60 million the dark Lord allegedly helped misappropriate, or how calling a CBC journalist a slut isn’t particularly [...]

With this morning’s surprise snowfall, Toronto pedestrians are once again relegated to nimbly navigating slush-covered sidewalks—an unpredictible process that leaves us carefully weaving through each other like mountain goats passing on a cliff. What really gets our goad, however, is one of winter’s notorious peeves: the lazy sidewalk shoveler. Mandated by the City to clear [...]