Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list which is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse. Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead [...]

It’s Boxing Day! Go spend money! If you don’t, Canada’s economy will suffer and it will all be your fault! You probably don’t even own all the seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD yet, do you? You slacker. Turkey explains how well its airstrikes in Kurdish Iraq have worked. Short answer: they worked [...]

Microsoft has agreed to buy 1.6% of Facebook for $240,000,000, giving the social networking site a valuation of around $15 billion. The deal is good for both parties, with Bill Gates finally hanging out with the cool kids, and 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg getting to throw an awesome kegger. John Tory has officially backed [...]

Brooklyn indie buzz band Bishop Allen play Lee’s Palace this Thursday night. Their music is infectiously catchy with great pop hooks. If you’re looking for a frame of reference, one music blogger described their sound as “a mix of the brainy lyrics of The Talking Heads and the stripped-down guitar work of the Violent Femmes.” [...]

Our title this week of course refers to Catch and Release, a film which has been so endlessly trailered on TV (and we don’t even watch that much) that Torontoist feels like we could recite the whole bloody film right now. “The man I was going to marry is dead! I’m sitting wearing my wedding [...]

Starting today, you must have a passport to fly from Canada to the U.S. If you’re dead set on clearing customs, it might be best to leave your anti-Bush shirts at home. After years of anticipation, the Robert Pickton trial is shaping up to be just as horrific as everyone imagined. The trial is expected [...]

Toronto can’t seem to keep its trash out of trouble. Those giant sidewalk trash bins aren’t generating enough in ad revenue to honour their $1-million-a-year payout to the city, so now what? Well, bids for Toronto’s street furniture contract are still being accepted. The winning companies will be supplying garbage bins, bus shelters and bike [...]

Condoleezza Rice promises to “look into” why Maher Arar is still on an American terrorist watchlist. Remember when you were at work and someone at work kept stealing your yoghurt and you were pissed so you went to your supervisor and complained and he said he’d “look into” it? This is kind of like that, [...]

Think the World’s Biggest Bookstore. Scratch that – think of a bookstore of free books that is as big as the world. Inspired by tracking websites such as Where’s George? (the U.S. counterpart of Where’s Willy?), Ron Hornbaker and Kaori Iha-Hornbaker gave birth to BookCrossing- members leave books in random public places for others to [...]

Friday, we caught the 9:15 pm show of Mutual Appreciation at the Bloor Cinema. Shot in grainy black and white, we follow the story of Alan, a musician who’s just relocated to New York from Boston. He’s finding his way in a new city with the help of his old friend Lawrence and Lawrence’s girlfriend [...]