The cover of Benjamin Rivers’ Snow. In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf describes a woman’s entire life through the course of events that occur in a single day. In a similar way, Benjamin Rivers’ comicSnow captures a sense of Toronto focusing only on a single street: Queen Street West. Snow follows Dana, a young woman who [...]

Don Mills and Eglinton at around 4:30 a.m. Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. Yes, it snowed. Not as much as was hyped, but enough to affect many of our days. It is pretty, and also annoying; some people want to make snow forts, and others want everyone to just shut up about it already. But! It [...]

Photo by louise@toronto from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. WHERE: Queen Street East WHEN: The morning of Saturday, January 8, 2011. WHAT: It’s winter! Finally, a proper snowfall that coated the city overnight, and is still drifting in a bit as we type. Enjoy the toboganning!

Photos by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. WHERE: Runnymede and Bloor (top), and Sunnyside Beach, with the Algomarine in the background (bottom). WHEN: 3:31 p.m. (top) and 4:40 p.m. (bottom) WHAT: It snowed all day today, and then—just in time for the sun to set—it stopped, with a few centimetres of snow to show for it. They weren’t [...]

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. The Fight Between the Storekeepers and the Company’s Employees by W.N. Langton in the Canadian Illustrated News of February 12, 1881. “Toronto has been considerably excited,” the Canadian Illustrated News reported [...]

Photo by andyscamera from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. “To create an urban environment in all parts of the city that encourages and supports walking,” states Toronto’s Pedestrian Charter, the City “upholds the right of pedestrians of all ages and abilities to safe, convenient, direct and comfortable walking conditions” and also “provides and maintains infrastructure that [...]

A CP24 anchor introduced a weather report this morning by saying “They’re calling it ‘snow-mageddon,’” before gleefully launching into the standard predictions of panic and mayhem that accompany virtually every cloud blowing within 100 km of Toronto. At the time, we thought, “Who’s ‘they’? Don’t you mean ‘you’”? But, surprisingly enough, the term didn’t originate [...]

TTC does end-run around Toronto Preservation Board. The TTC wants the right to redesign 63 of its 69 stations. Heh. We have 69 TTC stations. Never noticed that before. Heh. Ontario budget released. The budget contains small business tax cuts (not as large as Jim Flaherty would like) and small amounts of additional spending on [...]

Photo of Christian Landers by Jessica Landers. If you’re a white person and you haven’t heard of Stuff White People Like, you’ve probably been too busy watching entire seasons of The Wire on your IKEA couch with your Asian grad-school girlfriend, sharing iPod earbuds and a vegan stirfry, and having irony-fortified arguments about Wes Anderson [...]

Plagued by complaints, the City of Toronto has finally gotten around to ticketing some homeowners who don’t clear the snow in front of their property. A city spokesperson said they prefer not to send out inspectors in the winter because it’s so difficult to get around. Anxious to cement a reputation for self-serving indifference to [...]