Illustration by Brett Lamb/Torontoist. Introduction: Born in the early twenty-first century, Ford Nation rose from the ashes of a corrupt and wasteful city choked to death by streetcar tracks, bicycle lanes, and a whiny, petulant left-wing media. The state broke away from Canada after declaring itself a distinct society, but not before its founder successfully [...]

Mr. Dressup-lookalike posing as a Viking for a video dating service, circa 1987. Wayne and Garth impersonators. Pregnant-celebrity exercise videos. Wieners and vomit. This Thursday night, at the Bloor Cinema, prepare to immerse yourself in the Found Footage Festival: a “celebration of bad videos,” where the humour is always unintentional and male full-frontal nudity is [...]

Culture Club is Torontoist’s Canadian pop culture column. We’ll be waxing philosophical about the trivial, the titillating, and the mundane on a bi-weekly basis. Robert Mankoff and Margaret Wente talk ‘toons. “Have you ever heard of the Internet meme, ‘Christ, what an asshole‘?” asked Torontoist illustrator Brian McLachlan, standing in the aisle of the ROM’s [...]