Image courtesy of Jenny Mitchell. Is Jenny Mitchell trying to out-adorable herself? The Barmitzvah Brothers member personally packaged her first Jenny Omnichord solo album, Cities of Gifts and Ghosts, in hand-glued cases made from specialty wood. For her follow-up, Charlotte or Otis: Duets for Children, Their Parents and Other People Too, she convinced a bunch [...]

The ever-reliable Transit Toronto has just posted a comprehensive list of a number of Ontario transit services’ holiday hours. If you have any intention of using any or all of Barrie Transit, Brampton Transit, Burlington Transit, Durham Region Transit, GO Transit, Guelph Transit, Hamilton Street Railway, Milton Transit, Mississauga Transit, Oakville Transit, Orangeville Transit, Region [...]

A Milton woman went on a rampage with a samurai sword on Sunday, injuring her boyfriend and an off-duty firefighter, smashing windows at a gas station and hacking at a parked car. While Torontoist doesn’t condone senseless irrational violence, you’ve got to give her points for style. After a firestorm of criticism, the City has [...]

Provincial and federal elections in Canada are largely determined by quirks of geography. That is, the number of seats each party receives in the legislature is rather independent of the popular vote and has more to do with the way people of particular political leanings are concentrated (or not) within arbitrarily-drawn districts. This makes pre-election [...]

The CBC is reporting that the provincial government announced an ambitious new project today to revamp Kipling Station and turn it into a major transit hub for Etobicoke and Mississauga. The announcement came from Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield and Environment Minister Laurel Broten early this afternoon. The new station, which will be owned and operated [...]

Operating a public transit system is a difficult job, continually plagued by budget cuts, aging infrastructure and rampant customer dissatisfaction. We’ve always been fans of GO Transit, however, which has generally proven to be clean and reliable despite being operated by the Government of Ontario (hence, the acronym “GO”). When the 2005-06 provincial budget was [...]

Every weekday, we pick an 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!

Statistics Canada reports a national population increase of 5.4% since 2001, yet downtown Toronto only experienced an increase of 0.9%. The boom is being attributed to immigration, which experts predict will be our only means of population growth by 2030. It seems everyone is happy to settle in the suburbs as towns like Brampton (33.3%) [...]

The motion to reopen Parliamentary debate on same-sex marriage was thrown to the curb, kicked a few times, then repeatedly stabbed with a rusty knife. Charles McVety, head of the Canadian Family Coalition, says his group will not give up the fight against same-sex marriage because “the people of Canada are not going to let [...]

If, like Torontoist, you spent the first third of the fall season desperately clinging to the last brittle twigs of summer, you may have awoken this morning, panicked that the best of autumn has already passed you by. They gave away the pumpkins last week. Thanksgiving is over, and you were too busy pretending to [...]