Top, David Morgan; bottom, Pleasance Crawford and Charles Crawford with miniature chairs. WHERE: Consulate General Of The People’s Republic Of China, 240 St. George Street WHEN: Sunday, April 17, 1–2 p.m. WHAT: Members of Toronto’s arts community gathered in front of the Chinese consulate this afternoon to protest the incarceration of artist Ai Weiwei, who [...]

In typical fashion, we’ve all been talking for decades about a fixed rail link between the busiest airport in Canada and the busiest surface transit hub in Canada, but despite near-universal agreement on its necessity, the project is still vapour. The $200 million+ Blue22 plan designed in the mid-’90s was originally slated for completion right [...]

The TTC management and its workers’ union have agreed that the TTC is not an essential service. However, they are saying this not because they are saying, “Yes, we are useless,” but because they both want to avoid contract arbitration. However, since management wants to pay workers less than they would receive through contract arbitration, [...]

The Toronto Star discovered that there are propane sites all over Toronto! There could be one NEAR YOUR HOME! In fact THERE PROBABLY IS ONE! Thanks to the Star, you now know that you could be BLOWN UP AT ANY SECOND! Liberal MP Robert Thibault said some pretty stupid things recently, and he has apologized [...]

WestJet and Porter Airlines both added fuel surcharges to their ticket prices, because it turns out jet fuel is getting more expensive what with, you know, oil prices and all. So obviously this means that you should plan your expensive, environmentally wasteful trip sooner rather than later, when all the gas runs out and the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mayor David Miller, anxious to prove the civic value of his trade mission to China, announced yesterday that a major Chinese mining company would be opening an office in Toronto. Well, not necessarily an office. It could be one of those shared rental suites. Or a mailbox, definitely a mailbox, at least. Say, how ’bout [...]

A slaughterhouse-bound tractor trailer crashed on the 401 yesterday, setting 50 pigs loose on the highway. It’s a funny human interest story, because nobody died, with the exception of a few pigs, and they were on their way to the chop anyway. Everybody wins! Mayor Miller is still in China, avoiding awkward conversations about human [...]

The Toronto Sun reports that Toronto has now gone 26 consecutive days without a murder, a streak unseen since the summer of 2006. A spokesman for the Toronto Association of Thugs expressed frustration at the dry spell, saying that their group was on track with shootings and stabbings but that their efforts were being stymied [...]

In a grudging acknowledgement that Canadians are still entitled to some measure of freedom of speech, the Ontario Human Rights Commission dismissed a complaint against Maclean’s magazine for articles critical of Islamic fundamentalism, saying the Commission had no jurisdiction over print. However, the Commission—whose members are not required to have training in law, journalism, or, [...]