Remembrance Day is one of the new battlegrounds of the culture war. Are you a patriot, supporting our men and women at home and overseas as they defend Canada? Or are you some kind of hippie peacenik? You’d better choose a side. It’s all been laid out nicely. Were grandpa and his pals liberators in [...]

Photo of Pride 2008 by Sweet One. The floorboards of the 519 Community Centre‘s second floor auditorium were put to the test earlier this week. Indeed, many of those in attendance likened the atmosphere to dance parties held in the same space. But instead of getting down, several hundred participants at Monday night’s “Our Pride [...]

Photo of George Galloway at Stop the War, in London, on February 24, 2007, by davidChief. Incendiary British anti-war MP George Galloway was scheduled to speak at a Toronto Coalition to Stop the War event tonight. On March 20, though, he received a letter from Robert J. Orr, Immigration Officer for Canada in London, England, [...]

Every Saturday morning Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Crowd looking over fence at wrecked automobile in ditch, south side of Dupont, east of Christie, c. 1910. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 61. Attention drivers intending to head out [...]

Photo by sevennine from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. In the 1996 Canadian movie Kissed, a young female mortician discovers the joys of necrophilia. That same year, David Cronenberg made Crash, wherein a group of omnisexual urbanites eroticize car accidents. In Léolo, a 12-year-old boy masturbates with a chunk of liver, later served to his family [...]