You may have missed the memo from the City (so did we), but at about 7 p.m. last night, Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti (Ward 7, York West) started a Facebook group, called "Save the City..Support the Ford Administration." The purpose of the group is, it seems, to consult with Torontonians about what the City should and should not be funding (didn't we already do this?), and what it should do about issues like panhandling.

Never in Mark McIntyre’s life have so many people paid attention to him in his underwear. “Certainly I’ve dreamt about it, but I never thought it would come true!” The Toronto-based actor is becoming something of a microcelebrity on Facebook, where his twenty-five-day stint as “The Guy at Home in his Underwear” is, at day [...]

Illustration by Kyra Kendall/Torontoist. Alan Cross calls himself a “music geek,” but after chatting with him this past Monday, “music scientist” seems a fairer term. It’s a daunting task, picking the brain of Canada’s most notorious tunage guru. The host of radio rockumentary program The Ongoing History of New Music (snippets of which you hear [...]

Photo courtesy of Alex and Luke. A little over a year ago, Alex Sabine had just moved back in with her parents to look for work following a master’s degree abroad. Shortly after, the family’s home burned to the ground, destroying all possessions and hampering prospects of meaningful employment. At the same time, her best [...]

If a poll were taken to assess the attitudes of Canadians, even the politically engaged, in the days and weeks before the January 23 anti-prorogation demonstrations, the results probably wouldn’t be that flattering. Perhaps “failure” is an unfairly strong word, but to many, the predicted outcome of several weeks’ organizing was an anticlimax, an end [...]

Illustration by Sasha Plotnikova/Torontoist. It’s a surreal experience—interviewing a guy about an online “lifecasting” experiment and unwittingly becoming a part of it. But if there’s one lesson we can take away from the hour we spent with Hal Niedzviecki and his surveillance equipment (in his home, no less), it’s this: we should probably get used [...]

Hunger—which we caught at TIFF and again at the European Film Festival—is perhaps the most tactile movie we have ever seen. The impressionistic docudrama chronicling the prison hunger strike by IRA soldier Bobby Sands and the conditions leading up to his decision to take such extreme action, is all about the body and the things [...]

The TTC management and its workers’ union have agreed that the TTC is not an essential service. However, they are saying this not because they are saying, “Yes, we are useless,” but because they both want to avoid contract arbitration. However, since management wants to pay workers less than they would receive through contract arbitration, [...]