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National Magazine Awards Cause Flurry of Confusion, Concern

Screengrab of the purported National Magazine Award nominee list, as it appeared on its website this morning. The media industry went on high alert this morning, as excited writers and editors started tweeting exclamations of joy and gratitude, happy to learn that they had been nominated for Canada’s National Magazine Awards. First given out in [...]

The Curious Case of the Post City Burglar

The seven March 2011 editions of Post City Magazine. Reading a home is something of an art form. Keith Matthews (not his real name) gestures at a large brick home on a snowy North Toronto street with the blinds pulled partially back. “You can tell no one’s in there,” he says. “You see the living [...]

No More Shelter for Gladstone, As A Stray TTC Bus Stop Finally Leaves

Photo by David Topping/Torontoist. Two weeks after the Dufferin Underpass opened and left transit riders stranded on Gladstone Avenue, the City has finally seen to the removal of a bus shelter that was serving the 29 Dufferin route—a route that no longer ran along the street. Removing that shelter, or others like it, isn’t simply [...]

For Some TTC Riders, A Dufferin Slog

The abandoned transit shelter on the east side of Gladstone Avenue, on Saturday morning. Photo by Remi Carreiro/Torontoist. Dufferin doesn’t jog anymore, and TTC buses that used to worm their way along Gladstone Avenue before continuing north or south on Dufferin now go straight through the brand new underpass. So why is there still a [...]

Duly Quoted: Navid Nourian

"We’re not implying any sort of hate towards homosexuals, we’re not even mentioning them, other than the word faggots, twice."

Duly Quoted: Stephen Marche

"Mr. Ford offers voters fat. And we want fat. In fat, we see ourselves."

Duly Quoted: Joe Pantalone

"Just because you're a woman doesn't give you the right to patronize me."

Pat Burns Isn’t Dead

UPDATED Pat Burns died today. And then he didn’t. Here’s how, so far, the country came to think that a hockey legend was dead—and how the media outlets that killed him tried to take it back. 12:17 PM: Former Toronto Maple Leafs coach Pat Burns has died of cancer. That’s, at least, what CTV Ottawa [...]

George Smitherman Gets Caught In A Bike Lane, Too

Photo from the official Joe Pantalone For Mayor Facebook page. Three’s a trend! In July, a George Smitherman volunteer caught a Joe Pantalone campaign car parked in a bike lane on Harbord Street. In August, a woman caught a Rob Ford campaign truck parked over a bike lane on Annette Street. And now, someone’s caught [...]

Duly Quoted: Maria Augimeri

"They want to create a better world, they’re not ogres, don’t get me wrong, it’s just they didn’t take into account the learning curve of people in the suburbs."

Stupid? You Could Call It That

The Diesel ad on the side of the Rex, earlier in August, being put up. Photo by Nancy Paiva/Torontoist. Diesel’s most recent ad campaign is stupid. The company’ll readily admit it: “Be Stupid” is the whole hook. Ads beg consumers to “Think Less. Stupid More.” Others warn that “There’s no cure for stupid.” Stupider still, [...]

Rob Ford Truck Touting “Respect For Taxpayers” Ironically Parks Disrespectfully Over Taxpayer-Serving Bike Lane

Photos by Linda Noelle Bush. On Monday evening, at around 6 p.m., Linda Noelle Bush was inside her house on Annette Street near Indian Road Crescent when, she says, “I noticed the lack of light in my front room. All I could see was FORD!” What she found outside her house was an immense Rob [...]