BY: Unknown LOCATION: Lippincott and Harbord PHOTO BY: Bella Manu FIELD NOTES: This ‘Acapulco Gold’ dollar bill was, perhaps, a statement about Canadians mining silver in Mexico (because AG is the symbol for silver). It was probably an important statement with some valid points that have been completely overshadowed by the boner. It’s no secret [...]

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. BY:   Unknown LOCATION:   Unknown PHOTO BY:   Liam Kearney FIELD NOTES:   Money talks, and sometimes it seems like that’s the voice anyone ever listens to. So spend it wisely!

I Want Your Job finds Torontonians who make a living doing exactly what they love to do, in any field, and for any salary, and asks them how they did it. Name: Shannon Simmons Job: Certified Financial Planner and creator of the Barter Babes Project. In the past six months, financial advisor Shannon Simmons has [...]

Moss Park public housing. Photo by Erik Twight from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Lately, it seems like everyone has been piling on the Toronto Community Housing Corporation. Everyone, that is, except for the publisher that named them one of Canada’s top employers for 2011. This year, TCHC nabbed a spot on a list of Canada’s [...]

When asked about a potential viewing of the property at 32 Leyton Avenue, what surely must be one of the cheapest houses for sale in Toronto, realtor Peter Leung chuckled knowingly. “It’s not a regular house,” he warned, though Torontoist could tell from his tone that he suspected we already knew why. Still, he proceeded: [...]

Photo of York University’s Scott Library by Kinnon from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Last year, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities unveiled a new program that gave out $150 to any and every full-time post-secondary student in Ontario who applied for it, no strings attached. More than half a million students province-wide qualified for [...]

Photo by choochootheband. For a Torontonian, walking through downtown Detroit on an ordinary Saturday afternoon is an eerie, Rod Serling–esque experience: where’re all the people? Nobody’s around. From time to time a rolling vehicle will pass by, on the lookout for a safe lot. It is a desolate, almost post-nuclear dystopia, where every storefront and [...]

Photo of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa by Kasia/flickr. There’s more than enough trash-talking to go with the tulips this spring on Parliament Hill, with some distinctly unflowery themes (Fiscal mismanagement! Attack ads! Election threats! Secret tapes!) echoing through the air. Wait, secret tapes? It sounds sexy, but almost definitely isn’t. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s [...]

Photo by Brendan Lynch from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Ever since the Art Gallery of Ontario reopened its doors in November, its free Wednesday nights have been a big hit. The cultural access initiative has been a popular smash (gallery users line up in droves for the evening and crowd the museum’s spaces with a [...]

Photo of new students moving into residence in 2006 by David Topping. U of T’s flat fee proposal for Arts and Science students—the one that would force new students to pay for 5.0 courses, regardless of how many courses, from 3.0–6.0, they actually took—has barreled over the final administrative hurdle at the University of Toronto, [...]

Photo courtesy of Brian Rushton Phillips. We’re not sure most would consider it a sensible way to spend your last dollars. But it’s certainly a way to get creative with your cash. Brian Rushton Phillips lost his job at a Toronto publishing house earlier this year. We’re sure many of you can sympathize with his [...]