Photo of the St. Clair West and Dufferin intersection on Thursday night at 10 p.m. by dzgnboy from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. As far as dissimilar things go, live-blogging a power outage must be something nearly as absurd as dancing about architecture. But when a flood blew into a Dufferin Street transformer station just before [...]

Torontoist wasn’t around during the blackout three years ago today – we were founded a year later – but that doesn’t mean we don’t have fond memories of the day, and we bet you do, too. God knows we talk about ourselves enough, so we want to know from you, loyal Torontoist readers: what did [...]

With gas prices at hellishly high levels and lobbyists calling for government intervention in Ontario to lower prices, it seems that there’s no better time for Who Killed the Electric Car?, an excellent documentary about the slow death of the EV1, General Motors’ electric car. Quick backstory*: In 1990, The California Air Resources Board (CARB) [...]