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Thornhill SUV Driver Damages Property, Our Faith in Others

As the Toronto Police Service prepares to expand CCTV coverage in the GTA, this security camera footage of a BMW SUV going alpha-dog on top of someone’s hatchback, recorded last Thursday at an Extreme Fitness parking lot in Thornhill, has made us realize a few things: A) It is actually possible to drive guiltily. Somewhere [...]

Coldest Day of the Year Ride

What kind of people don’t like riding their bikes in a Toronto winter? People who have never tried it, that’s who. Even as more and more people choose not to get off their bikes when November comes around, many non-cyclists still view winter cycling as unwise, dangerous, or impossible. So as part of its first [...]

They Tased Him, Bro

In case you were wondering, it’s probably not a great idea to be hanging out in the entertainment district at 3:15 a.m. Especially if you’re in a luxury SUV. And especially especially if you’ve got a ponytail. In February of 2006, Toronto police officers arrested Irshad Ahmed and Omar Betty for failure to stop, failure [...]

Hero: Justin Lafontaine

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we’ve either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and [...]

Road Underage

Road rage in the city is nothing new. Torontoist covered incidents of road rage violence between motorists and cyclists in 2006 and 2007, and the Sun reported on Monday that a cab driver was shot at in a road rage incident. Most coverage focuses on road rage and adults, but new research from Ontario suggests that adolescents are more likely to be victims of road rage. In a study recently published in the Journal...

Illustration Sunday: Rolling Up The Red Carpet

Torontoist has had it up to here with tripping over the damn red carpets! You may have heard a thing or two about TIFF, a little film festival that’s been happening in town over the past few weeks. The festival has ended, which means no more being hassled for our autograph, blinded by paparazzi, and [...]

Perambulation Nation

“Good frickin’ lord, it’s too dang far to walk to the corner store to buy me a frozen yogurt,” you might moan. “I’ll just have to be a global warmer and gas up the SUV to drive there.” Not so, my friend! Not only is it good exercise, but it’s just well, great to perambulate. [...]

Voice Of The SUV

The Toronto Star recently started wrapping its front section in ads, à la Metro (except the fold only extends halfway across the front page). Today’s was a stark entreaty: “Don’t buy an SUV.” Okay, an environmental message, huh? We can live with our paper being wrapped in dispatches from the Suzuki Foundation. Then we unfolded [...]

Jean Chrétien is Alive and Well and Crashing in Toronto

Remember Jean Chrétien? We haven’t heard much about the former prime minister in some time (dude’s been off the map ever since Paul Martin forced him off it). Well, Mizalaina of the Toronto LiveJournal community spotted Chrétien earlier today in downtown Toronto, and has one hell of a story to go along with it: So [...]

Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and [...]

Doctors Asked To Check Your Belly, Rogers Buys The Formerly New VR, And The Jays Are Back In Town

Doctors urged to use tape measure to see if medical advice is necessary due to excess abdominal fat. I’m all for anti-obesity measures, but surely this is counterproductive? Did we really need another reason to dislike going to the doctor for a checkup? Toronto Star employee buys old laptop on eBay, gets relatively recent Canadian [...]

Have Your Free Cake And Chocolate-Covered Croutons, Too!

Yesterday was day two of Canada’s Bridal Show at the Metro Convention Centre (still on until 6pm today). It’s apparently “The Big One” for brides-to-be in our city, with over 400 vendors coming to peddle all kinds of stuff you didn’t even know you needed to have in order to publicly express your love for [...]