Whether we like it or not, some of us will be in Toronto all summer, with nary a trip or vacation elsewhere in sight. As a remedy, we’ve created Tourist. Every weekend morning of the summer, bright and early, we’re featuring a photo (or two) from a globe-trotting photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Tiananmen [...]

Statistics Canada reports a national population increase of 5.4% since 2001, yet downtown Toronto only experienced an increase of 0.9%. The boom is being attributed to immigration, which experts predict will be our only means of population growth by 2030. It seems everyone is happy to settle in the suburbs as towns like Brampton (33.3%) [...]

David Suzuki, Green Avenger and Captain of Awesome, says that Torontonians have the right to know what pollutants are in the air we’re breathing. 75% of the industrial pollution in our urban air is not being disclosed to the public! Save us, Suzuki! Air Canada is no longer flying to India, a move which business [...]

While our friends at Shanghaiist may be on the other side of the world, a taste of China’s exponential development is coming to Toronto. A skip away from Spadina’s Chinatown, The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design is hosting [DETOURS], a week of lectures, symposium and the opening of an exhibition, all [...]