This map was created by the Toronto Community Health Profiles partnership with the help of data from Canada’s long-form census. Okay everyone, this morning we’re going to talk about statistical survey methodology. Get excited people! It’s not everyday that an obscure piece of technical arcana finds its way into ordinary conversation. It happened in America [...]

One of the original “Jerks My Chicken” ads from TABIA, from last fall. Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. TABIA (the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas) is about to introduce a second round of double entendre–laden transit shelter ads like the ones they started putting up last fall. (Remember “My Neighbour Jerks My Chicken?” How could [...]

Kensington Market will soon be designated a BIA (that is, a business improvement area), pending near-certain approval by City Council this winter, according to a city staff report, released on Monday. A few area business owners have mixed feelings about the impending designation, but many see it as the best way of ensuring the future [...]

The bus shelter at Annette Street and High Park Avenue. Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas, you perverts. The umbrella organization—which the city’s dozens of individual Business Improvement Areas (or BIAs) are part of, representing thousands of local businesses—is blitzing the city with a new “Think Big, Buy Local” ad campaign, [...]

Remember last week, when Marc Lostracco took a look at Astral’s final street furniture prototypes and promised that “Torontoist’s Jonathan Goldsbie will have a more in-depth analysis of the new street furniture next week”? Well, there’s been a slight problem. On Wednesday night, Astral Media invited BIAs (Business Improvement Areas) to a sneak preview of [...]

When we first got a tip from Andrew Hunter that “someone has installed a new type of bike post along Yonge north of Lawrence,” we were concerned that it might be the vanguard of the Coordinated Street Furniture onslaught of mass-produced uniformity. When we went down (yes, down) to visit the area, however, we were [...]

Exhibition Place has presented many new technologies since it was established in 1904, but a new pilot project outside the Automotive Building is using 40-year-old technology to lessen Toronto’s energy impact: LED streetlights. Actually, the age of the technology is only partially true. It’s only recently that LEDs have been able to display a full [...]

Natural resources minister Gary Lunn (left) announces a new $238 million green science fund for development of new energy techologies. Distributed over four years that’s a little less than sixty million dollars a year, which will totally be all that’s needed to invent fusion reactors, perfect hydrogen fuel cells and give us all the rocket-backpacks [...]

These little yellow notices have recently been sprouting up like mushrooms around the city. Under the Commercial Façade Improvement Program for BIAs, business owners in designated Business Improvement Areas can receive funding of up to $10,000 ($12,500 for corner lots) from the city to upgrade the front of their premises. In at least one case, [...]