A week after we took CityNews to task for their bottom-feeding coverage of a handful of rats in the window of Happy Seven, they once again led their 6 p.m. newscast with a piece on vermin in Chinatown. (Supposedly another restaurant was forced to close.) Citytv has also, we’re told, been running incessant promos for [...]

Original graphic by Dave Meslin for Who Runs This Town? recoloured by Jonathan Goldsbie. It’s been a little more than two weeks since the American election and a little more than one week since Dan Savage appeared on The Colbert Report, and yet we’re still visiting FiveThirtyEight.com on a semi-daily basis, as part of our [...]

Photo taken just after midnight on Friday by Jonathan Goldsbie. The “For Renovations” part of the sign has since been torn off. You know what’s annoying? When the media overexposes a story while at the same time openly asking, “Is the media giving ____ too much coverage?” The Daily Show reams the cable news networks [...]

Photos of CablePulse24′s broadcast on July 25, 2007, courtesy of Joel Charlebois. Just before noon on July 25, 2007, Joel Charlebois caught a man, he says, breaking into his house. When Charlebois gave chase, the man fell from the second-storey deck, landing hard on the ground below and breaking his leg. As police arrived, Charlebois—an [...]

Forget death and taxes: the one real constant in life is breathy local news coverage of almost any kind of weather. Watching TV news reporters acting bewildered by temperature fluctuations or any amount of precipitation, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the giant dome that has maintained the city’s perfect 21° year-round weather for hundreds [...]

In the battle of who owns the roads, cyclists and motorists are frequently at each others’ throats. Over the last few years we’ve seen a heated altercation in Kensington Market and another that resulted in a motorist being stabbed with a screwdriver. It seems that the threat of a streetside melee is always looming. At [...]