Gas prices in Toronto are at $1.09 or more a litre today, reflecting all-time record oil prices of over US$108 per barrel. For all our driving readers, it might cheer you up to consider that it’s still cheaper to fill up your car with gas than say, orange juice or Diet Pepsi. By the way, [...]

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list which is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse. Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers [...]

Stephen Harper pledges $40 million to polar research. Forty million dollars? That will buy an entire research station! By 2015, we will have turned drowned polar bears into a renewable energy source! Electioneering party leaders promise to get tough on street racing. Most impressive: Howard Hampton’s promise to bring back photo radar. Yes, Howard. That [...]

If you’re a fan of Guster, the very excellent, very melodic, and, as this picture aptly demonstrates, somewhat quirky band from Boston, you’d know that they pretty much never ever play a concert in Canada. Despite their more than modest success (they’ve, like, totally been on the O.C. twice, and they’re a staple of US [...]

Do either of these ads say “Toronto” to you? Captions: at left, “Do you think I need a breast reduction?”, at right: “Tonight I’m not Susan. Call me Antoinette.” They’re the city’s new “T.O. Live With Culture” ads. Made from leftover money from the Live With Culture budget, they are supposed to target American tourists: [...]

The Raptors took the Cleveland Cavaliers 91-90 last night in a game that saw fresh faces fill in for injured key starters. Leading candidates in the election thingy debated crime, transit and garbage as usual last night for the co-sponsored benefit of The Toronto Star and CityTV, and maybe for voters, too. Quoth The Star: [...]

Toronto’s condominium market isn’t always a pretty one. Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy (also the strings arranger for The Arcade Fire and The Hidden Cameras, pictured above at left) decided to take an unorthodox approach to dealing with the problem: he wrote a song about it. Pallett’s newly-released LP, He Poos Clouds, includes a song [...]