Toronto’s tap water places third in blind taste test. So the next time somebody from New York tells you how awesome it is there, you can say “well, sure, but our water is delicious.” Professional wrestler Chris Benoit found dead along with wife and son. Police are investigating it as a double murder/suicide. For those [...]

Late last week, the CRTC ordered CTVglobemedia to sell off the five Citytv properties it acquired in its purchase of CHUM Ltd., because CTV already operates over-the-air stations in those markets (Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnipeg). This morning it was announced that Rogers Media would be purchasing those stations for $375 million, because it’s [...]

Jordan Manners will be laid to rest today. His mother is calling out for an inquest so that her 15-year-old son did not “die in vain.” If it prevents another shooting in this city, we’re all for it. Another Canadian killed in Afghanistan. A NATO helicopter crashed with five American crewmembers, and two members of [...]

For the long-suffering fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the year 1967 has become synonymous with past glories and forty years of failure. On Saturday night, the surviving members of the last Leaf team to win the Stanley Cup were reunited at the Air Canada Centre for the first time since that storied championship. An [...]

Last night at the launch of SCENE, Cineplex and Scotiabank’s new reward point program, most buzz overheard by Torontoist was about the marquee outside. What was once The Paramount is now the Scotiabank Theatre. Following the lead of our new opera house and almost every arena in professional sports, Cineplex Entertainment has entered into a [...]

Dust off your party shoes and break out your Canada-themed beer (no endorsements here), because Team Canada just beat the Russians 4-2 in the gold medal game at Leksand-Mora, Sweden to win the 2007 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship! With goals by four different players, including Woodbridge’s own Andrew Cogliano, Canada’s decisive win sealed their [...]

Former Toronto police chief and current OPP commissioner Julian Fantino is being sued for allegedly using a Police Services board case to maliciously advance his own career. The suit accuses Fantino of multiple skullduggeries, including wiretapping the chair of the Police Services Board. Now, I know what you’re thinking – “but Julian Fantino was such [...]

Photo credit: Victor Tavares. Toronto is the white heterosexual male of concert audiences: we rarely dance unless very intoxicated, and the movements are awkward and self-conscious at best. Auditory satisfaction is usually conveyed by a bounce of the head, or an occasional thrust of a fist towards the stage. Despite our legendary history of aloofness, [...]

If you’re like most Torontonians, the approach of September comes with some alarm — not only because the TTC is beset by caustic high school students, but because the cold, grey season is at hand. Come February, sometimes the only comfort comes from not being Edmonton. But as The Register reports, Google Maps has the [...]

The TTC is apparently losing about a bus a day to repairs and safety issues. Many of the buses are around 18 years old and nearing the end of their lifecycle. By next year the TTC will lose around 320 buses, more than five a week. Toronto, York Region, and Provincial officials are lobbying Ottawa [...]

Mayoral Candidate Jane Pitfield is as fed up with the shenanigans at the TTC committee as we are but we think her idea of appointing members of the public to the committee is even worse. Pitfield wants four out of the nine members of the committee to be drawn from the public. On one hand [...]

More evidence that we’re the centre of the universe (kidding), the nominees for the inaugural Polaris Prize is out and four five out of the ten nominees are bonafide Toronto artists. Broken Social Scene, The Deadly Snakes, Final Fantasy, Sarah Harmer and K’Naan make up the Toronto contingent. If we add Metric (which live in [...]