Photo by Ryan Walker/Torontoist. Once nestled between the Gardiner Museum’s exhibition posters, our favourite McDonald’s ad has migrated to the southeast corner of Bay and College. Trailing a yellow extension cord, the ad still lights up at night and begs for attention like a carnival midway ride. It’s still illegal, although no one seems too [...]

Look once, and you might think the Gardiner Museum was testing a tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign for its latest exhibit. Look twice, and you’ll see the golden arches and flashing arrows tempting you to try the new McMini Sandwich with its “not so subtle” flavour. What have we here? According to Chapter 693 of the Toronto [...]

Reading about world economies is important, but it can also be dry and boring, which is why the latest Big Mac Index, published by the Economist, caught our eye. The annual Index, which measures “purchasing power parities” around the world, has been around since 1986, but UBS Wealth Management Research has helped shape the more [...]

Photo by Stephen Michalowicz/Torontoist. Toronto is home to thousands of convenience stores, but this is the first time we’ve ever seen a convenience store, let alone a Hasty Market, with a built-in falafel and shawarma takeout. McFalafel, which opened a month ago, is located on the north side of Dundas Street West in the heart [...]

City sells “the McDonald’s site” on Bloor for a fairly low price. However, Adam Vaughan insists there are upsides to the deal, such as being able to limit the height of the condo development that will take its place, because who would want tall buildings in the downtown core? Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer. Although [...]

In Tuesday's news round-up, we told you that the plan to sell McDonald's the land at Bloor and Avenue had been halted until January 18. It's a good thing, too, as there are many questions that must be answered before the $3.38 million sale is finalized. Is it in the best interest for Toronto taxpayers? Is the sale a smart corrective action to the bungled 1971 lease agreement or another dumb move we'll regret for...

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The price of oil scaled new heights yesterday, climbing up over $80 US for the first time ever. That’s good news if you’re an oil company, but bad news if you’re a regular folk who likes to go places, or do things, or eat stuff. McDonald’s Canada is going upscale. Influenced by popular chains such [...]

Today Apple offered us a refresh of their entire iPod line, making us want to blindly toss our money at the company once again. One Torontonian, however, is getting some coin thrown her way—big time. Indie darling Leslie Feist has found her track “1234″ at the core of the new worldwide iPod nano television spot. [...]

Kids think that food in a McDonald’s wrapper tastes better than the same food not in the wrapper, study shows. This study confirms what many of us have long believed: namely, that children are stupid. Reason #6147 Toronto is better than Montreal: our gonorrhea rate isn’t exploding upwards. The article even points out that Montreal [...]

It happens in the middle of the night on a dark, deserted road in the wilderness near Kapuskasing: Carrie McDonald’s car breaks down. Her mobile phone is without a signal, and nobody knows where she is. The pavement is lit only from Carrie’s headlights, and she strains to hear any approaching vehicle in the dead [...]