Who knew there was a connection between the TTC and the Titanic, and not just that both are often associated with the words “transportation” and “disaster” (ba-dum-bum)? An exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre features four Toronto streetcar tickets salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck by a 1987 expedition. The tickets are believed to [...]

No word yet on whether that giant lemon will be making an appearance (Yonge and Dundas anyone?), or whether it will finally be revealed how one might actually dismantle an atomic bomb, but hundreds of U2 fans will be rattling and humming into Toronto for the fifth annual (!) inTO the Heart U2 Fan Festival, [...]

Click any of the photos to view them larger. Like much of Toronto, we’ve been a little ROMsessed this week with the opening of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, and now that the public has been allowed in for a peek while it’s empty (until June 10), some fantastic photos continue to be added to the [...]

There are many ways to chart a city’s history. One can dig into the city archives, flip through photographs or listen to its citizens tell their stories about its daily life. The evolution of a city can also be traced through a vehicle that drives people crazy when it originally appears, but forms a valuable [...]

The City of Toronto will be holding a Public Auction sale tomorrow at Queen Elizabeth Exhibit Hall, Exhibition Place, with the preview beginning at 7am. There are 3 auction rings and the auctions begin at 9:30am (“SHARP!!” cries the website), with “Police Cars, Trucks & Trailers, Office Furniture & Bicycles, Lawn, Construction & Garage Equipment [...]

You’ve probably seen Hoi Tang’s work around town at places like Magic Pony, when the talented illustrator, designer and craftisan isn’t busy making adorable magnets, buttons or prints she seems to be busy organizing shows like this weekend’s Modern Art Design Exhibit. She’s invited a dozen or so fellow artisans from Montreal, Toronto, New York [...]

The City wants to allow you to add more items to your recycling bin. Proposals are in the works to allow polystyrene, spiral containers (ie. frozen juice concentrate cans) and even plastic bags. The problem is that the city’s recycling capacity is maxed out and the City is desperately looking for more cash to increase [...]

Does this city ever get enough of Frank Gehry? After all, there is such thing as too much Gehry (Re: the future of the AGO…) The question becomes, when will the Gehry love bucket overflow and flood Toronto, killing everything in its path? The AGO’s expected opening is in 2008. But alas, just as the [...]

Rumours are a-fly that the CBC will be back in the house as early as next week. No, we’re not referring to the Classic Buick Club or Canadian-Born Chinese or Cold-Blooded Creatures, we’re referring to the most-trusted news source in Canada. Torontoist has obtained such information from an ex-CTV producer, via somebody we met on [...]

Already effective in both New York and Paris, cell phone cameras could be the next wave of Toronto pervert defense. It’s quite simple: When a pervert whips out his wild thing, on-lookers need only to get a shot of it their cell phone cameras. This will act as Exhibit A in a pervert trial. Though [...]

Every month or so, Toronto’s lesser-seen underbelly comes alive when the Toronto Urban Explorers & Adventure Group (TUEAG) set out. This past February, a group of five wandered the beauty of Ward’s Island in the dead of winter. Since that initial outing, the group has grown to over 250 people. They’ve been known to explore [...]