Toronto’s Board of Health meets today, and on their agenda is a new major study which examines the question of walkability—how conducive our neighbourhoods are to pedestrian activity—and the relationship between walkability and health. Unsurprisingly, the study (available online [PDF]) found that walkable neighbourhoods are healthier neighbourhoods. Also unsurprisingly, it found that there is a [...]

Photo by Joel Charlebois/Torontoist. UPDATED Last night—or rather, in the very early hours of this morning—a rumour popped up on Reddit that the infamous, infraction-prone, supposedly shut-down-for-good Green Room was open once again. A call today seemed to confirm this: we spoke with an employee of the Green Room a few moments ago who answered [...]

Toronto-based charitable organization GlobalMedic was a pretty easy pick for Hero this year. The group was founded by Toronto paramedic Rahul Singh in 1998 as a tribute to a fellow emergency worker who lost his life, with a stated mission of being "an efficient aid agency that delivers the maximum amount of aid with a minimum operating cost." But that dry corporate statement doesn't do justice to the work GlobalMedic does.

Like clockwork, every year, pedestrian injuries peak in winter and early summer. In fact, we’re likely just coming down from one such peak right now—the switch back from Daylight Savings Time has been blamed for triggering it. But January of this year saw a much worse rash of traffic collisions, which at one point killed ten pedestrians in eight days. The police response? A widely publicized "pedestrian blitz" that handed out tickets for jaywalking, which in many cases is not, in fact, an offense.

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Have questions about the TTC? Rocket Talk is a regular Torontoist column, featuring TTC Chair Adam Giambrone and Director of Communications Brad Ross’s answers to Torontoist readers’ questions. Submit your questions to rockettalk@torontoist.com! Photo by spotmaticfanatic from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Reader Stephanie Abba asks: Has there ever been any thought to banning food and [...]

The Green Room’s façade (top) and food safety inspection notice (bottom), on October 9. Photos by Joel Charlebois/Torontoist. On September 22, Toronto Public Health shut the Green Room down. For the fourth time in two years, the popular Annex hangout had failed its health inspection—two times more than any of the sixteen thousand other restaurants, [...]

The Toronto International Film Festival is pretty much a huge deal, whether or not you bother going to the movies. In the days running up to the fest, we’ll try to help you survive it. Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist. One of the trickier parts about TIFF is figuring out how to harmonize it with the [...]

Photo by tapesonthefloor from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. So, are there bedbugs camping out for TIFF at the Scotiabank Theatre? According to owners Cineplex Entertainment, who conducted a “thorough investigation overnight” on Monday, no. At 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, the company issued this statement, passed to Torontoist by Global News: Late yesterday afternoon, Cineplex contracted [...]

Photo by stevenharris. On Monday afternoon, a rumour started circulating on Twitter, to the effect that someone—nobody was saying who—had left the Scotiabank Theatre with bedbug bites. For the multi-screen theatre, the timing couldn’t be worse: the Scotiabank is one of the venues for the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins next Thursday. The rumour [...]