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For The Holidays, a Ride Home For Your Ride

The usual way for a driver to avoid eggnog-fuelled destruction during the holidays is for them to travel with a designated driver. This is a tried-and-true method of avoiding being the only perp at the station who smells alluringly of nutmeg. If, for whatever reason, it’s not a viable option for you (maybe all your [...]

Shy Captain and the Nightlife of Tomorrow

Photo by JaMmcat from the Torontoist Flickr Pool Shortly after a series of shoot-outs and drug busts in Clubland last year, Councillor Adam Vaughan made a stout-hearted attempt to allay citizens’ fears: “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. And it’s not a strobe light coming from the next club, but a better [...]

The Accidental Cyclist

Map from the Star’s Map of the Week. What to make of a map of cycling accidents that shows that the most dangerous street for cyclists also happens to have a bike lane? The Star‘s Map of the Week blog presented that dilemma to cyclists in yesterday’s map of traffic accidents involving cyclists. With all [...]

This Place Is Going to the Chickens

Photo from the Toronto Police Service. In a spun-out economy like ours, the idea of black market poultry shouldn’t be that surprising. And yet, with news like the following from the Toronto Police Service, the mental image of a Trailer Park Boys-style chicken heist is enough to merit an early morning spit-take. At some point [...]

The Travails of Mr. Stickman

Mr. Stickman has the toughest job in Toronto: keeping you safe. In a day’s work, he gets smushed, crushed, beheaded, befingered, mangled, strangled, thrown, blown, ground, and crowned. And unlike the relatively delicate spokesmodels who calmly remind you to mind the gap or not to trespass, Mr. Stickman is willing to give the extra effort [...]

Canada, The Scariest Place On Earth

We hate to burst your bubble, but there’s a good chance that the government of Australia hates Canada and all Canadians…especially you. This is, of course, nothing more than a wildly inappropriate and unverifiable allegation on our part, but we do have a bit of evidence to support our theory. You see, Australia’s official position [...]

Say Goodnight to “Walk Left, Stand Right”

Citing safety concerns, the TTC is removing their “Walk Left, Stand Right” escalator signs system-wide. After we got sent a tip by reader Tom Mertron of Toronto Rants, a quick trip on the system this afternoon showed that only one of the four downtown stations that we checked — St. Patrick — still has the [...]