To Die For somehow managed to shoot just about everywhere in the GTA except for Toronto. Still, we're not above venturing out to the 905 for the sake of an actual quality film. It's got a pre-Botox Nicole Kidman tearing it up, not to mention a damned fine supporting cast that includes the likes of future–Oscar nominees Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix.

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. Do [...]

Illustration by Roxanne Ignatius/Torontoist. It may say something important about our nation that, even in a year when our Olympic athletes dispensed estimable amounts of whoop-ass at the 2010 games, our highest profile celebrity is probably a twenty-one-year-old pigeon-chested kid from Brampton. Maybe it’s Canadians’ propensity to root for the underdog that explains the popularity [...]

The latest census stats show conclusively that the poor are either getting poorer, or that they’re not. The Star toes the OCAP line, rambling about free trade and crappy jobs, while the Post weighs in for the plutocrats by observing that family incomes have actually grown across the board, and that the income stats are [...]

It’s an exciting time to get sick in Brampton. With the opening of the highly hyped Brampton Civic Hospital, Canada’s first “superhospital,” people living in the Peel Region can go through dialysis, give birth, and get a biopsy (though hopefully not all at once) with greater ease and comfort than before. What makes this place so special? According to Gillian Williams McClean, the Director of Communications and Marketing, this is the most technologically integrated...