You can’t spell “Toronto” without “torture porn.” Well…you can, but we’re trying to kick this off with a zinger, okay? Saw is a landmark film. The 2004 original, filmed in L.A., cost barely over $1 million to make and raked in about $100 million worldwide. If you’re a horror film with those kinds of numbers, [...]

To listen to Toronto city councillor Doug Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North) and landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh speak about the development of Toronto’s Lower Don Lands is to listen to two very different things. One speaks of Ferris wheels and monorails and megamalls, while the other uses words like “carefully considered” and “metrical analysis” [...]

Walk around Toronto and you'll see evidence of Ken Greenberg's efforts to make Toronto a more livable place. The local planner (and former director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City) has had his hand in crucial projects from Harbourfront to the ongoing redevelopment of Regent Park as a mixed-income community.

Every other week, Hog-O-Vision takes an illustrated look into Toronto’s future.

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. Sure, [...]

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. This [...]