Photo by Smedlipotski from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Why, at the very crest of Apple’s latest wave of buzz, is the Toronto District School Board moving to phase out Mac computers in all its facilities? Lots of reasons. The decision was announced in a briefing note, submitted to the TDSB’s trustees on November 13 by [...]

Plurk (left), and Microsoft’s Juku. Social networking services are a dime a dozen these days, so it’s hard to keep track, but what you may not know is that Mississauga-based Plurk is a big deal in China. That market is so potentially lucrative that software behemoth Microsoft felt inclined to steamroll the Canadian microblogging startup [...]

It’s like a bunch of ad executives got together in a boardroom and decided “You know what gets the kids’ attention these days? Community alerts about sexual predators!” It’s like that old joke “SEX—Now that I have your attention…” except replace SEX with RAPIST or PROWLER or some other such thing. You could argue, we [...]

Wizard needs weekend plans, badly. Clever wizards know that the place to be this Friday and Saturday (June 27-28, 12–5 p.m.) is Evolution: 30 Years of Computer Games at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre (9 Ossington Avenue). 20 PC games are on display and available for play on their original consoles, showing how gaming technology [...]

The third annual Toronto Independent Game Development Jam ran from the 9th to the 11th of May this year with over 125 developers managing to produce 34 different games across the intense three day period, and their pain is now our pleasure as all of the successfully completed games have been released online. As if [...]

Today’s release on Xbox Live Arcade is Trigger Heart Exelica, an originally Japan-only Dreamcast “bullet hell” vertically scrolling shooter, and if that sentence doesn’t make any sense to you whatsoever, that’s totally fine. You see, we’re actually here to mention last week’s Xbox Live Arcade release, N+. It’s based on N, the freeware game sensation [...]

Some Canadian cattle will now be allowed into the United States following a 4-year ban in the wake of several cases of “mad cow” disease. American Homeland Security regulations will still require that any bovines wishing to cross the border carry a valid passport. The latest UN report on climate change says that global disaster [...]

Microsoft has agreed to buy 1.6% of Facebook for $240,000,000, giving the social networking site a valuation of around $15 billion. The deal is good for both parties, with Bill Gates finally hanging out with the cool kids, and 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg getting to throw an awesome kegger. John Tory has officially backed [...]

“Honest Ed” Mirvish dies at 92. As the man himself would say: He may be gone, but his bargains sure aren’t. Torontoist’s obituary for him can be found here. Details on the funeral are here. Toronto police board still making up its mind about whether or not to approve Tasers. Insert bad joke about “shocking” [...]

Toronto’s overwhelming reception of Al Gore yesterday prompted David Miller to toughen his stance on climate change. Mayor Miller promised an aggressive change in policy on pollution, transit and construction, which will be formally proposed in late March. The Ontario government may have come up with a way around the new U.S.-Canada passport rules. A [...]

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It’s our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! The appropriation of corporate logos appears to be a popular activity here in Toronto. It was only two days [...]