BY: Unknown LOCATION: Kensington Market PHOTO BY: Martin Reis FIELD NOTES: As we shift toward a greener future, people are coming up with increasingly resourceful ideas for creatively placed gardens. In Toronto alone, we’ve had some fantastic attempts to plant guerrilla gardens in otherwise unused spaces (here, here, and here, for example). It’s always nice [...]

Sunday morning joggers were astonished to come upon polar bears, splashing in Lake Ontario just off Sunnyside Beach. No, not the fat, furry kind, but the pale, shivering, yet nonetheless courageous variety, mobilized by the Wildlands League for their second annual Polar Bear Swim. The swim—held to raise money and spread awareness of climate change, [...]

Torontoist Environment Editor Chris Tindal is currently engaged in a federal by-election campaign. This weekly column is an attempt to offer a behind the scenes glimpse into what it’s like to be that mysterious Other: a politician. This is my last Campaign Confidential before E-day, yet I’m hesitant to pen any “final thoughts” knowing how [...]

Torontoist Environment Editor Chris Tindal is currently engaged in a federal by-election campaign. This weekly column is an attempt to offer a behind the scenes glimpse into what it’s like to be that mysterious Other: a politician. Running for office is an extremely rewarding experience, but it’s not without sacrifice and set-backs. All of us [...]

Torontoist Environment Editor Chris Tindal is currently engaged in a federal by-election campaign. This weekly column is an attempt to offer a behind the scenes glimpse into what it’s like to be that mysterious Other: a politician. As you read this I’m somewhere in the Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, likely between [...]

Torontoist Environment Editor Chris Tindal is currently engaged in a federal by-election campaign. This weekly column is an attempt to offer a behind the scenes glimpse into what it’s like to be that mysterious Other: a politician. There is, of course, no multi-partisan training manual for new candidates on how one is to behave during [...]

The last time we looked at accessible pedestrian signals (APS), those chirping and cuckooing crossing indicators for the visually-impaired, it was with some surprise at the city’s claim that it simply couldn’t afford to install APS at more than a handful of intersections each year. Instead of allocating enough money to improve availability of a [...]

Torontoist Environment Editor Chris Tindal is currently engaged in a federal by-election campaign. This weekly column is an attempt to offer a “behind the scenes” glimpse into what it’s like to be that mysterious Other: a politician. A strange thing is happening here in Toronto Centre: Barack Obama seems to have become a candidate. Not [...]

Sometimes we find ourselves wondering, “Where do I put these lead acid batteries now that they’ve started to leak corrosive fluid all over the place,” or, “How can I save money while being green in 2008?” A new Greentree book by Allison Greenbaum gives us the answers. “The Little Green Book of Big Savings” is [...]

In a strange moment of synchronicity, there are currently two musicals on the Toronto stage about a man who kills people and disposes of their bodies by feeding them to someone/something. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has been playing at the Princess of Wales since early November, and closes on December 9. Sweeney tells the story (which we are all likely to become more familiar with after Tim Burton's film adaptation...