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Wild Toronto, Collector’s Edition

From our archives, the wild and wonderful comic series by Rosemary Mosco, in its entirety.

Wild Toronto was a bi-weekly comic strip by Rosemary Mosco that ran on Torontoist from December 2007 to July 2008 (with one last return visit in December 2008). It cleverly observed and taught us about the animals and plants that live in our city, and we are excited to present the entire collection of Wild [...]

Zoo Board Votes to Send Elephants to Friendlier Facilities

Photo by kaeko from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. After debating most of today, Toronto’s Zoo Board has decided to close down the longstanding elephant exhibit and relocate our three remaining elephants—Toka, Iringa, and Thika—to a more suitable habitat. Debate about the elephants’ future has been raging for a while, with many feeling that Toronto’s cold [...]

Cherry Blossoms in High Park

For some people the first sign of spring comes when bars open their patios. For others it’s signaled by the Good Friday parade. But for many, spring starts when the grove of cherry trees in High Park blossom and thousands of people rush to take in the spectacular scene, thrusting cameras and children (and this [...]

Lose Yourself in the Humber Arboretum

If you’re hankering after some urban greenery but you’re tired of High Park, then you could do worse than a visit to the Humber Arboretum. It’s free, it’s quiet, and best of all, there are surprisingly few wasps. The arboretum, set up in 1977, is hidden behind Humber College way up in Toronto’s northwest, and [...]

The Daily Photoist: January 12, 2009

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It’s our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve. look deeper BY GARDINERGIRL

Illustration Sunday: Peregrine Paparazzi

Just in time for Mother’s Day, this pair of Peregrine Falcons has three new chicks. Each year they return to the same nesting spot on a ledge eighteen floors above Etobicoke. The location is equipped with a camera, and the live video feed can be streamed online. Tune in for a feeding session with these [...]

Humber; Or, Life in the Woods

It seems that some Toronto taggers are no longer content to scrawl their own names on blank concrete canvases around the city and are trying instead to make more of a cultural statement. Last year, references to composer Gustav Mahler popped up in several places around town. This year, a more cryptic stencil has appeared [...]

I Cook Your Goose, I Cook It Up!

In the hierarchy of beloved Canadian animals, certainly near the top are the beaver, the caribou, and the polar bear. The Canada Goose is much more divisive in its ranking. Sure, having Canada in its name is a pretty slick move, but being an aggressive, overpopulating pooping machine is a strong deficit. Obviously, where the [...]

Drop the Needle: PHATT al

One of the biggest complaints that Toronto hip hop artists have is that they are ignored by local media, and, for the most part, they’re right. Drop the Needle hopes to help remedy this by checking in with some of the city’s finest artists each month to see what’s up. Photo by Mark Kasumovic. Since [...]

Nature Hates Tories, Panel Loves Taxes, Turkey Bombs Iraq

The highly-respected British science journal Nature has called the Harper government’s record on science and the environment “dismal.” The PM was unavailable for comment yesterday, as he was in an emergency cabinet meeting called after Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse to determine why the moon had disappeared. An independent panel of experts has come up with [...]

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list which is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse. SFist worried over drugstore chain Walgreens’ celebration of Black History Month. Gothamist was surprised that apparently New [...]

A Perfect Saturday for a Snowball Fight

If anybody remembers last year’s Snow Day, an ill-fated attempt to make snow in Trinity-Bellwoods Park with a defective snowmaker that lead to a giant snowball fight, you may be pleased to learn that exactly one year later, there is actually a bunch of snow on the ground, and the plan is the same. It [...]