Today’s ad features your stereotypical 1950s architectural professional: trenchcoat, tie, hat (preferably a fedora), and a fistful of building plans. The building this dapper construction supervisor is depicted next to would quickly become one of St. Clair Avenue’s architectural landmarks. Pigott Construction was based in Hamilton, where company president Joseph Pigott contributed heavily to the [...]

If you’re reading this and it’s between the hours of 7-9:30pm EST, do yourself a favour and tune into Hockey Night in Canada. You might be witnessing the end of an era in Toronto sports. Mats Sundin, captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1997, is on the trading block. Earlier this week, TSN broke [...]

It’s been the best of times, it’s been the worst of times for the Toronto Maple Leafs; in fact, the past couple weeks have been nothing short of surreal. First, the best of times: wins against the high-flying Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens, followed by a thoroughly unexpected Hockey Day in Canada victory over the [...]

TTC subways twice as costly to build as Madrid’s. And they got tapas while they were building it. Rogers increases their fake “system access” fee. Torontoist has learned that this is only the first in a proposed system of additional fees, including an “energy cost of making your phone ring louder” fee, a “remembering that [...]

The saga of John Ferguson, Jr. is mercifully over: the beleaguered General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who’s been a whipping boy for the team’s misfortunes ever since his appointment in 2003, has been fired. Say what you will about Ferguson (and if you’re a Leaf fan then you probably have): the way he’s [...]

Government fires head of Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Linda Keen. However, it is understandable, considering that Ms. Keen went public about government interference in her job and threats of being fired if she shut down the Chalk River reactor for being potentially unsafe. We mean, you can’t say she wasn’t warned that her bosses were [...]

We have no problem admitting our man-love for Mats Sundin: he’s been the captain of our favourite hockey team for most of our adult lives, he’s one of the greatest Toronto Maple Leafs of all-time and he’s a shoe-in hall-of-famer once he retires. Seeing him score his 500th career goal still ranks as the greatest [...]

Say what you will about the Toronto Maple Leafs, but they’re not boring. Incompetent, sure, but definitely not boring—not even during their recent, well-publicized losing streak. The Leafs are a middling 3–4–3 in their last ten games, yet they're oddly compelling to watch: they’re tied for third in league scoring (this, despite the inability of some of its key players to put the puck in the net) and they’re by far and away the...

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It’s our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose—unless you were at [...]

The headline doesn’t lie, folks. The self-professed “angriest man in America” and The Daily Show regular Lewis Black will be wagging his infamous finger in Toronto as a part of the first annual Just For Laughs Toronto Festival. Black is taking the place of George Lopez, who was originally slated to host the July 27th [...]

As any hockey fan in Toronto already knows, the NHL draft took place this weekend and featured John Ferguson Jr. trading for a veteran goalie for the second straight year. The newly acquired Vesa Toskala, traded from San Jose, should provide a more stable presence in the net than Andrew Raycroft, and is projected to [...]

I love the smell of police raid in the morning. Toronto Vice arrested 60 people in the Jane and Finch area this morning in a raid called Project Kryptic. They seized “30 kilos of cocaine, hash oil and marijuana with an estimated street value of $1 million” from the Driftwood Crips. That’s actually pretty badass. [...]