So, you may have noticed it snowed this weekend. If you don’t believe us, go check out the Toronto Star‘s website, where nine out of ten local stories are about the snow, people dealing with the snow, and celebrities talking about the snow. Notably absent among them: the probable cause for all of this snow. [...]

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. Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead [...]

Happy New Year! Thousands of GTA-ians jammed Nathan Phillips Square to watch CIty TV’s tiny perfect anchorman Gord Martineau host his 75th New Year’s bash. Thousands more did not. Toronto also rang in the new year with another snowstorm, which is expected to continue all day and inflict up to 10 cm of inconvenience on [...]

Donald Trump’s Toronto hotel will only be 57 storeys, rather than 70. Experts explain that this is because Donald Trump’s penis is smaller than previously believed. (Extra hilarity from The Donald’s spokesperson: “The more residents we had, the more the elevators were going to be used and that wasn’t what we wanted in an exclusive [...]

It features our busiest subway station, it’s got one of the most trafficked intersections in Toronto, and it’s the psychological split between uptown and downtown. Despite such importance and notoriety, Yonge and Bloor has remained inexplicably dingy and architecturally bland. Now, a Kazakhstani development firm and local architect Roy Varacalli want to change all of [...]

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we’re sensational, but it’s very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we’ve decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: [...]

Brad J. Lamb is not, to put it gently, universally loved. As head of his eponymous Brad J. Lamb Realty, he is a titan of Toronto’s condo industry, the closest thing we have to a Trump — right down to his new TV show that airs in February, Big City Broker. And, as titans tend [...]

Sometimes you have to wonder what they’re thinking down on Queen Street. First there was MuchMusic, “The Nation’s Music Station.” Remember when you were growing up and you told all your American friends how much cooler -how much more REAL it was than MTV? Well, then it kinda stopped playing music (just like MTV) so [...]

We here at Torontoist on the whole like unions. But in this case we’re distraught that you would think about illegally walking out of your jobs at midnight and in the process take out our schools, snow ploughs, and half-a-dozen other services. Frankly your language sounds like posturing and a lot of bluster. It’s also [...]