DISCUSSION: TIFF’s Cannes Critics Week celebrates 50 years of the festival’s special screening series, with films selected by eight local critics. Today you get a free opportunity to grill some of those opinion-makers, as Fabien Gaffez, Peter Howell, Liam Lacey, and Jonathan Rosenbaum will participate in “Higher Learning—Cannes Critics Week Panel: Film Criticism Today,” a [...]

In the heart of the Junction, Heather Kentner spends her days on hoops, aerial silks, and a trapeze. This equipment—along with mats for floor work, like partner balancing and tumbling—are the tools Kentner uses to introduce her students of all ages to the various arts of the circus.

Many of Toronto’s avid cyclists are aware of our network of bike trails, but for the most part, the slice of pseudo-wilderness cutting a swath through the Don Valley and along Taylor Creek is one of the city’s most woefully neglected attractions. Those who use it may like it that way (its obscurity keeps bike [...]

Conservative finance monkey Jim Flaherty on the budget: “We chose to support hard-working families.” The budget has won favour with the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois, saving Stephen Harper from a dangerous early election. Flaherty recommended that Toronto “be prudent in their budgeting“, dismissing David Miller‘s One Cent Now and transit plans. Ontario schools will [...]

We’d like to start this week’s run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn’t for them, the rest of us wouldn’t be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he’s working [...]