Let’s play a little hypothetical game here. Imagine a sunny Friday morning in Toronto, strolling down Adelaide, maybe whistling a jaunty tune, then being stopped on the corner by officers with firearms and tactical gear. Your singing is suspicious, they less-than-tacitly suggest, and they want to see your identification. For your safety, you know. The [...]

So earlier this week there was a Torontoist meeting, and the Watch (that's what we're calling ourselves now, pass it along) was all, "People love to read about Queen's Park because it's super-interesting and hip" and then someone else was like, "Maybe you should try explaining what provincial government does because nobody knows what you're talking about," so we go, "Thanks, ya jerk," and hit him with a Druxy's tuna sandwich, 'cause he was being such a jerk and all up in our face and whatever.

We’ve come a long way since summer 2003. Or have we? Sure, it was eight years ago. It was also not the best few months all around, what with SARS and everything, but the warmer months of that year did have an oddly hedonistic quality. Many were collectively drunk already on having thumbed our national [...]

Illustration by Kyra Kendall/Torontoist. Technically, in 2002, Ireland did it before us―but, on this continent anyway, Toronto was the first to institute a fee on plastic shopping bags. Washington D.C. recently became the first U.S. jurisdiction to follow our example, when its bag fee legislation came into force last Friday, January 1. Though outwardly similar [...]

Photo by .Allan from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. PARTY: Toronto celebrates the banner year of one hundred and seventy-five with a plethora of fun both inside and outside City Hall. Highlights include the Lit City activities (see below); “360-extended,” a huge interactive project of personal Toronto stories; and Toronto’s emergency personnel performing virile demonstrations such [...]

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 [...]

Bad news if you’re a lacrosse fan: the 2008 National Lacrosse League season has been cancelled. Pick your joke: 1) “I’m sure all three of you are very disappointed”; 2) “Players are refusing to play until they get reimbursed for their bus tickets”; 3) “My God, this is the national sport we’re talking about here! [...]