This map was created by the Toronto Community Health Profiles partnership with the help of data from Canada’s long-form census. Okay everyone, this morning we’re going to talk about statistical survey methodology. Get excited people! It’s not everyday that an obscure piece of technical arcana finds its way into ordinary conversation. It happened in America [...]

Illustration by Sasha Plotnikova/Torontoist. It’s a surreal experience—interviewing a guy about an online “lifecasting” experiment and unwittingly becoming a part of it. But if there’s one lesson we can take away from the hour we spent with Hal Niedzviecki and his surveillance equipment (in his home, no less), it’s this: we should probably get used [...]

The TTC management and its workers’ union have agreed that the TTC is not an essential service. However, they are saying this not because they are saying, “Yes, we are useless,” but because they both want to avoid contract arbitration. However, since management wants to pay workers less than they would receive through contract arbitration, [...]