Following a police investigation into the sudden disappearance of bachelors at 555 Sherbourne Street, two one-bedrooms and a three-bedroom suite were held for questioning. All three were released, though the suite’s kitchen was charged with kidnapping after it was found to be hiding the Loblaws produce department. Based on the evidence in today’s ad, 555 [...]

As far as downtown architectural landmarks go, it’s hard to miss the Toronto-Dominion Centre. Its sleek, black, rectangular appearance proudly demonstrates the modernist style of its architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. While Mies projects like Westmount Square and the former Esso gas station on Nun’s Island dot the landscape of Montreal, just past the western end of Highway 401 sits the world’s largest collection of his work. A short distance northeast of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is Lafayette Park, one of the United States' first urban renewal projects.

Photo of Regent Park by L. S. Edwards from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Just before the May 24 fireworks reignited the ongoing Pride/anti-QuAIA debate at yesterday’s Executive Committee meeting, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s (still) one-man board of Case Ootes was given the go ahead to sell off 22 properties. (City council will need to [...]

Rob Ford speaks to the press briefly after council’s late-night Wednesday session. For some, city council’s decision late Wednesday night to change the face and structure of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s board is a symbolic first step towards restoring public faith in the organization. Mayor Ford and many councillors who supported his calls for [...]

Photo by Nick Kozak from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. This afternoon at 5:30, city council will hold an “emergency” meeting to determine whether tenants of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation will have a voice on the body’s interim board of directors. Seven citizen members and two council members of the board resigned last week after [...]

Mayor Ford maintains that his administration can find ways to scale back spending without compromising city services. In this ongoing series, we consider whether these suggestions will help balance the budget, and also balance fiscal restraint with Torontonians’ service needs . Photo by MRLG from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. In all the public discussion of [...]

Photo of King, Queen, and Roncesvalles, looking southeast, by Alfred Pearson, April 17, 1923. City of Toronto Archives, Series 71, Item 2014. Parkdale was established in the late nineteenth century as a suburban enclave where middle-class families could enjoy parks, the lakeshore, and the new exhibition grounds far from the bustle of the central city. [...]

Photo by SandroGianella from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Want to pack it all in and move to the islands? Someone’s written about that already. Want to pack it all in and move to the Toronto Islands? We can write about that. All you need is luck, patience, and money. Thanks to a 1993 provincial statute [...]

Photo by choochootheband. For a Torontonian, walking through downtown Detroit on an ordinary Saturday afternoon is an eerie, Rod Serling–esque experience: where’re all the people? Nobody’s around. From time to time a rolling vehicle will pass by, on the lookout for a safe lot. It is a desolate, almost post-nuclear dystopia, where every storefront and [...]

Every Saturday morning, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Slum – Price’s Lane (August 27, 1914). City of Toronto Archives, Series 372, Sub Series 32, Item 320. In Low Life, Luc Sante writes of how slum districts in contemporary New York—despite [...]