Toronto loves its movies. Toronto especially loves its free, outdoor movies. Toronto is also beginning to love its waterfront. Bringing these things together seems a timely and natural yet also ingenious move. But no one in Canada had done it before Thursday night, when Toronto Port Authority (TPA) premiered the Sail-In Cinema three-day film festival to landlubbers and seafarers alike.

Walk around Toronto and you'll see evidence of Ken Greenberg's efforts to make Toronto a more livable place. The local planner (and former director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City) has had his hand in crucial projects from Harbourfront to the ongoing redevelopment of Regent Park as a mixed-income community.

Streetcar track construction on Queens Quay, looking west to York Street, May 31, 1927. Photo by Alfred Pearson. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 4932. When the first set of streetcar tracks was laid on Queens Quay in 1927, we suspect aesthetic concerns about the surroundings were low on the priority list. [...]

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. Even [...]

Photo by vlad TO from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The current and future development of Toronto’s waterfront is the single most significant omission from this year’s municipal election. Consisting of roughly eight hundred hectares and one million square feet of employment space, our waterfront is the largest urban renewal project in North America. The redevelopment [...]

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. The [...]

Source: The Financial Post 500, June 1982. The pitch Olympia & York used to entice businesses and residents into the still-under-construction Queen’s Quay Terminal seemed to work. As the spring of 1983 approached, nearly all of the retail space was leased and the seventy-two luxury condos were selling quickly despite being among the most expensive [...]

Photo courtesy of TDT/David Hou. Award-winning choreographer and longstanding artistic director of Toronto Dance Theatre Christopher House is a sly trickster who never fails to find new ways to toy with his audience when he turns dance conventions on their head. During the first section of his new dance piece entitled Pteros Tactics (finishing its [...]

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. This [...]

Kenojuak Ashevak, Enchanted Owl (green tail), 1960. Photograph: The Museum of Inuit Art. When you step into the Museum of Inuit Art, which is hidden at the back of the Queen’s Quay Terminal on the Harbourfront, you’ll probably recognize the first picture you see. This is the “Enchanted Owl.” According to the museum’s curator, Ingo [...]