When we tried out the bench prototype at the street furniture unveiling at City Hall in June, it was one of the few items we were pretty much okay with. But because Astral Media can’t do anything right (when it comes to street furniture and billboards, anyway—their other divisions seem to be functioning relatively well), [...]

It’s so beautiful it doesn’t even look like Toronto. Not that Toronto can’t be beautiful, but there’s a certain otherworldliness to these images. This is something we see in other cities, not here. Presuming that the pedestrian priority crossing is made permanent and expanded to other intersections in a meaningful way, this is one of [...]

Last week, undergraduate students at UTSC (University of Toronto Scarborough) rejected the U-Pass by a stunning margin, with full-time students voting against it 1674 to 622, and part-time students spurning it 53 to 16. Minus the abstentions and spoiled ballots, that worked out to 73% No for for full-timers and 77% No for part-timers. When [...]