A young patient at one of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (or MINUSTAH) emergency clinics. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, Canadians began mobilizing relief efforts at the local level. While large international agencies like the UN Food Program are attempting to provide aid, they revealed to [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. We’re in the thick of it now: mad rushes to malls and endless trays of cheese and probably a festive beverage or two. But [...]

We’ll admit it, we’re hard to buy for, but this year, we’re easy: nothing would make Torontoist happier for the holidays than our very own inedible, time-travelled Being Erica gingerbread house. We checked, it exists, and not to be pushy or anything, but you only have until 8 p.m. tomorrow evening to snap it up. [...]

Fucked Up have delivered on their Polaris-winning promise, and quickly. As of yesterday, their prize-funded, guest-rammed remake of the 1984 classic “Do They Know It’s Christmas” is available for purchase on iTunes. Featuring Andrew W.K., Bob Mould, David Cross, Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig, GZA, Kevin Drew, TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone, Tegan & [...]

The real thing (left), and the fakery. Photos courtesy of the Toronto Police. SickKids is one of those organizations where you see humans at their best, but as with everything, it doesn’t take long for some jerk to come along and demonstrate our species at its opportunistic worst. When fraudulent donation canisters started popping up [...]

Toronto comedian and activist Derek Forgie got inspired to start Heterosexuals for Same-Sex Equality (HSSE)—a gay-rights group founded by people who identify as straight—from the unlikliest source: 100 Huntley Street. On a particular episode in 2003, the hosts and guests were denouncing gay marriage seemingly on the behalf of all straight married couples in Canada. [...]

If They Had 1,000,000 Flavours. Photo by David Topping/Torontoist. All signs pointed to ice cream. But for some strange reason, our invitation to the Barenaked Ladies‘ mysterious press conference (held at the top of the CN Tower, we might add) left us in the dark. The banner-dragging bird, the sky-blue background peppered with white clouds [...]

Photo courtesy of Erin Lang. Tea, cupcakes, crafts, and folk music are always a relaxing and satisfying combination on a weekend afternoon. But this Sunday at the Resistor Gallery on College Street, they’re also a way to bolster a good cause. The Hibiscus and Rosehips collective, spearheaded by local folk songstress Erin Lang, will be [...]

…But they do want your lunch money. On Thursday, February 26, Second Harvest volunteers will be at TTC stations asking Torontonians to donate the money they’d normally spend on lunch to help feed the hungry in our city. The campaign is in its eleventh year, so most TTC riders are familiar with it, but in [...]