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LessMusic

Is there a television station less bland than MuchMusic nowadays? Once upon a time, MuchMusic was fresh, low-tech, and spunky. (Yes, we can call the old MuchMusic “spunky” with a straight face. This was a different era, when spunky was actually good.) Okay, we admit that Torontoist has written about MuchMusic sucking previously, so this [...]

At Least You’ll Be Able to Tell Your Mom You Found a Job in Media

This is not the building in which the elevator resides, but check out that symbolism. Photo by Wai, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. So you spent tens of thousands of dollars on a journalism degree from a good school and now you’re pulling espresso shots for suits like some kind of industry cliché. Well, pull [...]

Blame it on the Rain

Although Mother Nature may not be providing the most worthy goodbye (she always was a fickle lover), one of her biggest crushes,

They Wanna Be on Top

Photos of Meaghan deWarrenne-Waller and Elmer Olsen courtesy of CTV. Yesterday, sleepy Fairview Mall was transformed into the site of the Canada’s Next Top Model casting (and to answer your first question, no, Jay Manuel wasn’t there). Hundreds of high-heeled and short-skirted girls (allegedly) aged eighteen to twenty-three nervously awaited their fate before a crush [...]

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Although Stephen Harper has started to make concessions on his party’s November fiscal update, we can’t forget that he broke his promise of fixed election dates earlier this year and has now also formally parted ways with his pledge to elect senators. Unsurprisingly, the newly appointed senators who were announced today have deep ties to [...]

A Moment Like This

The economic crisis just got so, so, so much worse: Canadian Idol will be taking a “rest” in 2009, with broadcaster CTV citing the “economic climate.” Judge Zack Werner told the Star that the show proved to young people that “if you hope and you dream and you try, you can do something more with [...]

A Weekend in TIFFville

Photos by Hannah Sider. “This is the best frosh party I’ve ever been to!” The twenty-something friend-of-a-friend was one of the surprising majority of “normal”-looking guests at what was not, in fact, a frosh party. He was wearing jeans and a v-neck, which is to say that we don’t actually remember what he was wearing, [...]

Befo’ You Think You Can Dance, Canada

At first, the idea of Canadian versions of popular reality shows sounded pretty terrible, but Canuck versions of Project Runway and Top Model have been more entertaining than they had any right to be. Next up is So You Think You Can Dance Canada, premiering September 11 on CTV. Granted, we were initially anxious over [...]

Flashpoint Flings Swingtown

Friday’s episode of Canadian drama Flashpoint managed to bring back about 85% of the audience for round two and was the most-watched program of the night on both sides of the border. (The decline could be attributed to the Joker Effect, as ratings for Friday were depressed compared to the previous week, while 10 million [...]

Flashpoint Hits The Mark

Flashpoint, about an elite police squad based in Toronto, was off to a great start on Friday, with over one million Canadian viewers and over eight million American viewers tuning in for the premiere on CTV and CBS—despite the lackluster 10 p.m. time slot. The show was the top-rated program for Friday, and should rank [...]

Hockey Night Song No Longer Taxpayer Funded As CTV Scoops Rights

Hey, CBC—you wanna come over to Torontoist’s house and play a little Texas Hold ‘Em sometime? CBC got called on their Hockey Night in Canada bluff today as rival CTV announced that they’ve struck a deal for the rights to the HNIC signature tune. The news comes four days after the kind-of public broadcaster announced [...]

Massive Fire Guts Queen West Block

Photo by aardvark from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Transit vehicles are being diverted and streets have been closed near Queen and Bathurst as firefighters battle a six-alarm blaze this morning. The fire broke out about 5 a.m. and spread through eight low-rise buildings on the south side of Queen, consisting of fourteen addresses between Bathurst [...]