“At some point, perhaps 10 or 15 seconds into the encounter, he cocked his fist near his head and began charging at me at a full run. I began pleading with him, as loud as I could, with my hands up, for him to stop. I yelled, at the top of my lungs, something like, [...]

Late last summer, after five years of pale blue and increasingly frustrating site architecture, Torontoist relaunched with a brand new site. New layout, new back-end system, new logos, new…everything. We were the same—the same street-level reporting and frank commentary, the same love for the city and fascination with all its quirks, big and small—but we [...]

News from one of the casualties of this year’s federal budget: there’s now a plan for implementing cuts at the CBC. Announced today, that plan includes 650 job cuts, office space contraction, cancellation of a planned Halifax expansion, a bid for commercials on Radio 2, shutting Radio-Canada International outposts in Brazil and Moscow, and a [...]

The Toronto World once declared that “A newspaper editorially has no inherent personality of its own nor apart from that of the individuals who direct and control its policy. That is the basic element in journalism, though it is often forgotten or ignored by the public to whom it is of vital interest.” Readers of [...]

3:00 PM: Rob apologizes to all of the people who waited for an hour to speak with him but they can call his office instead, because then he can lie to them about subways in person. Ha! Only kidding. One of his staff will do it. 2:56 PM: And we’re back! Rob encouraged “some” of [...]

Toronto’s Michael Balazo has been in Halifax since November 2011, working as a writer on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Since he left town, he’d stopped posting on his satirical blog, Toronto Sun Cover Reviews, where for years he’d been writing select reviews of the covers of, in his words, “Canada’s most reactionary/hysterical newspaper.” [...]

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 [...]