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. Illustration by Jeremy Kai/Torontoist. “And, oh, what a glorious pleasure to again be in Toronto after an absence of twenty years!” The year is 1928. Reginald Fleming is laid back comfortably [...]

City Hall during this year’s Doors Open. Photo by Bryson Gilbert from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. If talk about Toronto has taken a negative turn, a new collection of essays called Local Motion is trying to get us out of the doldrums. Edited by Dave Meslin, Christina Palassio, and Alana Wilcox, Local Motion features fourteen [...]

Tonight in Toronto: revitalizing civic engagement with the release of the newest uTOpia book, remembering a local performer, and UK folktronica group Tunng return to North America.

Ok, so we're starting to get the message that we need to act on this whole "we're killing the planet" thing, and fast. But amongst all the noise about how much trouble we've gotten ourselves into, it's sometimes hard to hear the solutions and see the positive ideas. Enter GreenTOpia, the third installment in Coach House Books' uTOpia series, which is being released at a party this weekend into our eagerly outstretched arms. As we...