Over the past year, federal and municipal electoral results have appeared to highlight a clash between downtown and the suburbs, with different parts of the city facing off on opposite sides of the political spectrum. At the federal level, stories of the Conservatives courting the visible minority vote emerged during the last election, with some [...]

When Serah-Marie McMahon started Worn Fashion Journal, she put out an open call for photo spreads. The magazine was reaching out to anyone and could feature anything, but priority would be given to any shoot that didn’t star a young skinny white girl. It was two years before McMahon was pitched anything but. Twelve issues [...]

This year, Toronto's reputation for tolerance was undermined. Racial stereotypes crept into our politics, our schools, and our media—and reminded us that our city is not magically immune from racism. Even more troubling: our muted reaction to many of these incidents.

Christian Lander brunching at Beauty’s in Montreal. That all those jokes about how white people drive or dance or fornicate have been exhausted has itself become a bit of a joke. Just like moaning about the prices at movie theatre concession stands or the wacky names of caffeinated beverages at your local Starbucks, it was [...]

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Advertisement, the Telegram,, February 12, 1932. Image courtesy Silent Toronto. Like children elsewhere across the continent, young Toronto moviegoers in the 1920s and 1930s eagerly awaited the next installment of the [...]

At left: the cover of the City’s FUN Guide, from its website. At right: the original stock photo, as used on Look4me. Well, this is awkward. For the cover of their Spring & Summer FUN Guide (a “Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation booklet filled with programs and services for people of all ages” distributed to [...]

At left, last week’s Eye; at right, this week’s NOW. Photo by David Topping/Torontoist. Obama! The dude is everywhere. And everywhere he goes, so goes Hope, and so go the dreams of the souls of black folk and of Toronto’s alternative weeklies. Eye and NOW, occasionally, have the same things on the cover in the [...]