I Want Your Job finds Torontonians who make a living doing exactly what they love to do, in any field, and for any salary, and asks them how they did it. Name: Gloria MacDonald Job: Owner and founder of Perfect Partners dating agency and matchmaking service. When Gloria MacDonald tells her clients that she understands [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Christian Base on a Friday morning at the College Park BMO. A man holds the door open for one young woman, shortly after attempting to flirt with another one. Guy: After you. I insist—I’m Irish! Woman: No, after you. [...]

Talent, top singles competitors, and hired help mingle onstage at the Lavalife Summer Lovin’ Festival. Several months ago, the online dating site Lavalife announced a competition to crown one of its members “Canada’s Top Single.” From the Lavalife profiles that heeded the call to compete, a squad of celebrity judges chose fifteen men and fifteen [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Karen Whaley at Exile in Kensington Market. A girl is helping a male friend pick out a dress for his girlfriend. Girl: What’s her style like? Clueless boyfriend: Uhhhhhhh…well, she looks good naked?

Before we published our post yesterday about a chair for sale on Kijiji by a woman with one heck of an ex-boyfriend story, we emailed the seller. The details of their now-dead relationship, we thought—alleged relationships with “transvestite hooker[s],” alleged “cocaine habit,” alleged grand theft—were too sensational to be real, and plus, there were plenty [...]

“Well I’ve got this lovely armchair for sale. I’m told it is an Eames chair by my low-life ex.” And that is how it begins—this listing for an armchair, for sale in Hamilton, titled “Eames Teak Armchair: EX ROBBED ME BLIND!” Allegations include not just theft, but a “secret transvestite hooker and cocaine habit.” If [...]

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Production still from Sweet Talk courtesy of manifestation.tv. Valentine’s Day is for lovers, right? Candy, flowers, candlelit dinners, and all that? For some people, maybe. But for those whose idea of romance consists of sitting at home and getting off while some stranger they’ve never met moans over a phone line, the documentary Sweet Talk [...]

Streetcar ad mockup, courtesy of Ashley Madison. Ashley Madison, the perennially controversial and perpetually amoral dating website for people looking to cheat on their spouses, aimed to wrap one streetcar in a massive end-to-end purple ad—”LIFE IS SHORT. HAVE AN AFFAIR.”—for twenty-eight days starting on January 11, 2010. So the Toronto-based company struck a deal [...]

Photo courtesy of Posterchild. Posterchild (Torontoist contributor and Torontoist fave) has spent the last two and a half months in New York City, most of it with his girlfriend of two years, Sonja. One of his projects while there has been putting up what he calls “New York Sunsets“: large black-and-white drawings of the New [...]