In the holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown doesn’t find his inspirational Christmas tree among hundreds displayed behind temporary fencing in the parking lot of a hardware conglomerate or a big box grocery store. Good grief, no. As overwrought with anxieties as he may be, Charlie Brown realizes, if the true meaning of [...]

Every so often, when we’re struck by a particular theme or subject, we look back through all the wonderful photos that have been submitted to the Torontoist Flickr Pool, and collect our favourites. Though summer returned for an encore performance over the recent Thanksgiving weekend, there’s no denying that it’s time that we reckon with [...]

Planting community gardens in partnership with the TTC. For Torontonians who were not able to escape the city for the long weekend, there is always the comfort of green spaces like High Park, the Don Valley, or Leslie Street Spit. In total, our city has a substantial urban forest of 10.2 million trees. Not only [...]

Photos by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Street art is something we’ve covered extensively in the past, and there are reasons for that: it’s often very beautiful (though some would argue otherwise), it’s public and simple to take photos of—and it’s also worthwhile to document, because it’s ephemeral. But it is, of course, usually installed without permission, and [...]

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. Footpath across Don Valley, 1908. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 1257. As a child, Ernest Thompson escaped his rough Cabbagetown neighbourhood by hiking deep into the virgin forest of [...]

On a clear summer’s day, if the air quality index rating is favourable and you have an opportunity of getting really high over Toronto, in the CN Tower’s Sky Pod or in an airplane on approach to the Island Airport, or even out on a high-rise balcony, you can’t help but notice—between the city’s ravine [...]

Passersby on the portion of Bloor Street just south of Yorkville are in for an unnerving sight. The stretch of road between Yonge Street and Avenue Road that last week was lined with trees in sidewalk planters is now decked by long rows of tree stumps. The clear-cut is a result of the ongoing Bloor [...]

Laura Reinsborough of Not Far From The Tree. Waste not, want not—so the old saying goes. Taking the adage very much to heart is a fledgling non-profit and its several hundred volunteers, who have been plumbing our city for hitherto forgotten bounty for the past couple of years. The organization is called Not Far From [...]

Believe it or not, there’s a 10′ x 20′ Pattison ground sign behind there. Those trees’ days are numbered. We don’t know what the deal with the keyboard is. Photos taken on Lower Sherbourne, just north of The Esplanade, by Jonathan Goldsbie.

Many fast-food chains and grocery stores are reintroducing tomatoes to their menus after the American tomato salmonella outbreak last week. Officials for the stores said that they waited until everybody had forgotten about the salmonella thing before bringing back the tomatoes, and that in future they hope to make us forget about bad things faster. [...]

Toronto has experienced some erratic and spectacular weather recently, so pair a thunderstorm with our often rotten, hollow tree canopy and carnage often ensues. This particular space became double parked around six this evening near Shaw and Harrison Streets, and though this type of destruction is not uncommon, things might have been worse. Now, would [...]

The Waterfront Trail through Pickering (now easier than ever to get to!) offers some intriguing sights, including this retired former tree just off Frenchman’s Bay. If you’ve ever tried to remove a tree stump, you can probably understand why a homeowner would choose to dress it up rather than dig it out. Still, Stumpy looks [...]