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Breed Ban is Bull

Recently, the Toronto Sun reported that over 500 pit bulls have been killed since the breed was banned sixteen months ago. With temperatures in Toronto well below freezing, those still lucky enough to be alive are suffering due to their salt-ridden and frozen paws, unable to lick them because of the muzzles on their faces. [...]

Metafilter Does Quebec, Loonie House, Regent Park Revitalized By Royal Bank Condo, Wine For the Holidays

Everything you ever wanted to know about the new Quebecois nation but were too afraid to ask, courtesy of Metafilter. But more importantly, Snoop Dog was arrested after a performance on Leno. Everyone who is surprised, raise your hand. What, no one? Royal LePage Realty is listing a house in East York for the grand [...]

Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

A quick look around our sister sites brings back some ISTeresting stories. — After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team [...]

Lyrics, Audiences, and Mixtapes

After sifting through the heaps (mounds?) of MIA discussion around the internet over the past few months, Torontoist thought it’s about time we came up with some of our own opinions on the Sri Lankan/British, by-way-of-blog superstar. As most conscious MIA listeners already know, there’s a growing controversy over MIA’s Palestine Liberation Organisation shout-out as [...]

M.I.A.: She’s Doing Her Thang, Yo!

Last night the Drake was a veritable spectacle of boldfaced grandeur, trendy sneakers and perfectly worn in high-heeled leather boots. M.I.A. took to the stage, and a gaggle of journos, bloggers, and people with Dov Charney-esque facial hair shook their booties like TOist has rarely seen in this town. PopWherry, our occasional concert cohort, was [...]

He Got Blame: Essay and Unrelated Mixtape

Given the relatively short existence of rap music, tracing its lineage appears fairly simple. The advances in the genre are well-documented: Kool Herc started turntablism, Kurtis Blow first brought rap to the mainstream, Prince Paul popularized skits, Afrika Bambaataa rocked the sample, and so forth and so on. Then there is Dr Dre’s classic 1992 [...]

Torontoist Singles of the Year 2004

The best way to compile a year-end list is to wait for everyone else’s year-end lists before making any rash decisions. Not only does this method allow for appropriate deliberation, but also makes it easy to sidestep any of the poor choices made by other list-makers. For instance, upon scientific study of the P’fork singles [...]