Will you refuse to eat a Subway sandwich because those deliciously cheap “Sub of the Day” deals are advertised in the Toronto Sun? Justin Beach will. He’s the organizer behind Operation Sunset, a campaign to stop companies from advertising in that paper. “Going through advertisers is the only way to have an impact on a [...]

Hell on wheels. Brawny bruisers. Fishnet warriors. Booty-short brawlers. Flat-track fighters. Sure, these terms are catchy, but when it comes to describing the women who play roller derby, there’s one word, above all others, that should be applied: athlete. And when the World Cup—the very first of its kind in the history of modern flat-track roller [...]

“The Occupiers are the immediate menace, never mind what they denounce. Not only should they be obliged to dismantle the tents, yurts, barbecues and portable bathrooms they’ve set up in a Toronto park, and leave between the hours of midnight and 5:30, as ordered by a judge—they should be told to get out altogether.” —But [...]

Tucked at the very end of a North York cul-de-sac lined with long grey office buildings, there is a patch of grass covered in geese. In the summer, Fitzroy Gordon says, those geese will be replaced by band stands, food, and people. He’s describing just one of the many block parties and music festivals he [...]

It was a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory kind of moment: quiet since late July this past summer, one of Toronto’s most pre-eminent music websites CHARTattack suddenly announced it was back online and started churning out magical nuggets of delicious music news and samples on Monday. Only instead of a wiry top-hatted man with a [...]

At the end of July, long-standing music site CHARTattack stopped publishing. At the time, Exclaim reported that on July 29 “managing editor Aaron Brophy sent an email to Chartattack.com contributors that read, ‘Effective immediately, Chart Communications is suspending publication of the website Chartattack.com.’” Nobody was quite sure why, but most were saddened by the news—CHARTattack [...]

The 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards finalists were announced last week, and Torontoist is excited to be up for four of them. We’ve got nods in Best Overall Online-Only Publication, Best Blog, Best News Coverage, and Best Online-Only Article or Series. The nominations recognize everything from the funny to the serious: the pieces we submitted [...]

WHERE: The Drake WHEN: Wednesday evening WHAT: For the first time, the Onion is taking its print edition international. Already published in a number of local editions across the United States, Toronto now has its own installment of the satirical rag, packaged with sister publication the A.V. Club, which will (non-satirically) cover local arts and [...]

Book reviews in Canada are becoming an increasingly rare art form. And yet Jessica Duffin Wolfe is leaping on board, albeit in a way that embraces new media. The Toronto Review of Books will launch on September 20 as a quarterly, online-only journal. Don’t be misled by its name, though–founder Duffin Wolfe is hot to [...]

Eye Weekly published its last issue on May 5, 2011. It was a milestone in the life of Toronto media, and as the 20-year-old alt weekly was replaced with a markedly less alt Grid, many of us who grew up learning about the city from Eye were sad to see it go.

One hundred years ago today, one of Canada’s most iconic and controversial academics was born. More than 30 years after his death, Marshall McLuhan is still credited with changing the face of communication studies — even if many have dismissed his famous one-liners as contradictory and superficial (hot media, cool media, anyone?).

Oh, Sun Media, you want to be so edgy. From self-mythologizing as “the little paper that grew” in Toronto to launching your own bargain-basement version of Fox News, you’ve always prided yourself on being the rebel in the media room. Last week’s decision to pull 27 papers out of the Ontario Press Council (OPC), including charter members of the organization like the London Free Press, because the self-regulating watchdog has “a politically correct mentality” at odds with the trashy nature of your urban tabloids is a fine example of Sun Media’s cranky-teenager streak. We wonder if the move was motivated less by true dissent with the OPC and more by winning brownie points with the right or saving a few bucks on membership dues.