Reader Sarah ML asks: If you can explain the grave marker that is down behind the back entrance of the St. Clair West subway station, I would be very happy. It is on someone’s property, and looks like one of those tall narrow monuments you see in the cemetery. Torontoist answers: Though Toronto has its [...]

Reader Karen Schein asks: Do you know the story behind the grave, north of the abandoned rail bridge over Bayview Avenue? Torontoist answers: If not for the structures visible in the distance—not to mention the absence of tumbleweed, circling vultures, and a Man With No Name—the image below could easily be mistaken for a century-old [...]

A couple of weeks ago, a Super Mario question box popped up on Yonge Street, intriguing passersby with high-jumping, mushroom-getting potential. Also somewhere in the city: this Super Mario star, brightening up the scene with hopes of good fortune to come. It's been around for a while but it's a bit hidden from view. If you find it, we hope you do great things with your newfound invincibility, while it lasts!

Top: the abandoned bike before the beautification project commenced. Bottom: post-revamp, and bright orange. The rules which govern and shape our public spaces are important. When things go well they help ensure a city that is safe, accessible, and welcoming. They provide for everything from curb cuts so that wheelchairs and strollers can travel streets [...]

On the grounds of CAMH. Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist. Suprising fact of the day: Jane’s Walk is only five years old. Held the first weekend of May, the event celebrates cities—their nooks and crannies and hidden-in-plain-sight secrets—as well as the memory of urban theorist Jane Jacobs. Over the course of the weekend various local residents [...]

Behind the gloss of the Shops at Don Mills, a few office buildings and plazas that haven’t experienced redevelopment still line the southwest quadrant of The Donway. A passing glance at the tenants of 49 The Donway West reveals an exiled anchor of the old Don Mills Centre (Home Hardware), service-based merchants (Cadet Cleaners, The [...]