PROTEST: Anti-Scientology group Anonymous is having another planned protest at the Church of Scientology today. If you haven’t been to one before, hordes of people typically disguised by masks congregate outside the Scientology building and chant things like “Fuck Tom Cruise!” and encourage cars to honk their horns! Meanwhile, the staff at the Church of [...]

The Worldwide Short Film Festival opened last night so it’s too late to call this a preview, but we wanted to make sure we’d seen as many of the programmes we could manage before we offered you any opinions on what to go and see (and what to avoid). After the jump, previews of official [...]

Forgive us if we’re breaking rules 1 and 2, but it didn’t take us long to figure out that this fake Wii Battletoads website (site has changed, see Google cache for original) was a viral marketing campaign against the Church of Scientology‘s “Fair Game” policy. This past Saturday marked the latest “in real life raid” [...]

Photo by exMOHAX Led by the group Anonymous and their ongoing campaign against the Church of Scientology, Project Chanology, protesters gathered outside the church’s Toronto headquarters on Sunday to mark Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday. It was the second such worldwide protest in just over a month; the last protest—a surprisingly massive one—took place [...]

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. Phillyist explored an impending implosion and lived to tell the tale. Gothamist marveled at the city’s new [...]

At first we assumed it was Scientology. After all, who else has the money to produce and purchase space for such glossy anti-pharmaceutical ads, which have been popping up all over transit shelters and buses in Ontario and Montreal? Google wasn’t much help, and their Blog Search just pointed us to other people as perplexed [...]

Photo by Joe Lee (London, via Londonist). A spokesperson for the Church of Scientology labelled Sunday’s protest outside its office at Yonge & St Mary—part of a worldwide series of protests—a “religious hate crime” and said that the “hate crimes of Anonymous should be condemned,” as reported in Torontoist, CTV and the Toronto Sun, among [...]

If you passed the Church of Scientology’s Toronto chapter at Yonge & St. Mary on Sunday, you may have momentarily entertained a dark fantasy that Tom Cruise would emerge from the masked masses amid gales of manic laughter, igniting the dissenting throng with bolts of righteous lightning. Sadly, no such fun. Rumour has it that [...]

City councillor wants to bring in the army—literally—to fight gangs. Torontoist ultimately decided to link to the Star's version of this story over Holy Shit Somebody Actually Said That Weekly. You are welcome. Mitt Romney delivers passionate speech defending religious plurality in America. The gist of the speech is thus: "Don't be intolerant of me because I am a Mormon; be intolerant of those agnostics and atheists over there who should not even be...

For some of us, Tuesdays can only mean one thing. Yes, “Family and Relationships” day over at Globe Life, the Globe‘s lifestyle section that was introduced in the April redesign. But it seems like they’re having some trouble finding material, because yesterday’s Globe Life section featured not one, but two pieces on what to do [...]