During the 1988 G7 Summit, world leaders held high-level meetings at the Toronto Hunt Club. Photograph by Dave MacIntyre from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. G20/G8 summiteers are arriving in Toronto by the planeload. Considering that Toronto acted as the backdrop for the fourteenth annual Group of Seven Summit in June 1988, this one should be [...]

Police in riot gear face Tamil protesters during last year’s Gardiner protest. The weekend of the G20 may still be looming, but Torontonians are already over it. With the anticipation of traffic roadblocks, delayed transit, and identification checks, the security measures that one billion dollars can buy are starting to feel like more of a [...]

It all comes down in a little over two weeks for the city of Toronto. The world squeezing ten-abreast through our town’s narrow doorway, kicking back and settling in, maybe knocking over a glass or two with its gigantic, mud-caked combat boots. Sound cannons, troops, security barriers; a veritable parade of paramilitary machinery rolling through [...]

A federal government report says that the majority of firearms seized at US border crossings are legally held down there, and are being smuggled in simply so that their owners don’t feel emasculated in a foreign country. Hide, Rex, hide! Summer students working for the City may be prowling around your neighbourhood looking for unlicensed [...]