Still on the hunt for that dream job? The one that pays more than $150,000 a year, but your work day doesn’t start till noon-ish? The one where you get to dictate your own schedule, meet with whomever you choose, blow off meetings with colleagues, stakeholders, and just whoever you don’t feel like meeting with? [...]

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss. We found out last month that the storied comic shop Silver Snail is moving to Yonge Street. Today, the store posted a video tour of its new space. It’s embedded above. SickKids is in the middle of [...]

Evergreen Centre, a prominent downtown drop-in space that serves homeless and disadvantaged youth between the ages of 16 and 24, is planning to terminate the majority of its drop-in programming in early June. Evergreen would be the third local youth drop-in space to close its doors in the past year: Dufferin Mall Youth Services closed [...]

Sorry to disappoint you casino conspiracy theorists, but according to the president of Waterfront Toronto, a casino is not on the radar for the Port Lands. Instead, they are more preoccupied with finding the funding for the massive redevelopment plan. Hmmmm. A massive redevelopment plan. This still sounds a little fishy. If not for a [...]

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss. If you yearn for the simpler days of yore, when all you worried about was whether the wheels would stay on your Lego firetruck, rejoice: Toronto is getting its very own Legoland Discovery Centre. Each year the [...]

The Beach is known for its unique small-town vibe, but a possibly precedent-setting new six-story condo planned for the area has residents fiercely divided over the evolution of their neighbourhood. The community, the developer, City planning staff, and Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon (Ward 32 Beaches-East-York) have been in heated discussion for the past year over the [...]

By one o’clock in the afternoon on May 22, two entirely opposing groups of spectators had formed in the Distillery District awaiting the arrival of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. One of them lined Trinity Street all the way down to Distillery Lane: camera-toting clumps of people checking watches and straining [...]

City staff say they need more time to sketch in a casino work on plans for the redevelopment of the Port Lands. The City decided to take another look at the plans for the site that were put together by Waterfront Toronto, and planned to have the new plan ready to present next month. But [...]

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss. Another Toronto-based Tumblr for your momentary amusement: Awful Front Yards. Now that Mayor Rob Ford has evidently given up governing less than halfway through his term—the better to focus on his reelection campaign—Matt Elliott has some suggestions [...]