Last week, council dealt a crushing blow to Mayor Rob Ford’s tireless campaign to build subways along Sheppard Avenue. The plan failed, in part, because even the mayor’s allies could not see a feasible funding strategy for the subway plan. It’s no secret that Mayor Ford is a fan of smaller government and more private-sector [...]

Photo taken at John and Adelaide Streets, by Ian Simpson. Reader Ian Simpson sent us this photograph, yesterday, of a newly installed billboard for Bud Light at John and Adelaide streets. It reads: “Torontonians aren’t cold. Not in August, anyway.” The ad, of course, is a direct response to a Coors Light billboard in British [...]

Photo by JesseK-G from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. If you’re doing the duck walk with a bladder at code red, it will be best to look for a most public place to do your private business. That’s where Toronto is being told to install most of its ballyhooed new public poopers in order to flush-out [...]

You’ve got less than three weeks to prepare yourself for Earth Hour on Saturday, March 29. That’s when people around the world are being encouraged to turn off their lights for one hour to raise awareness about global warming. Toronto was the first Canadian city to sign up for the international event late last year, [...]

Today’s release on Xbox Live Arcade is Trigger Heart Exelica, an originally Japan-only Dreamcast “bullet hell” vertically scrolling shooter, and if that sentence doesn’t make any sense to you whatsoever, that’s totally fine. You see, we’re actually here to mention last week’s Xbox Live Arcade release, N+. It’s based on N, the freeware game sensation [...]

Toronto, we are told, is a world-class city. But Toronto is noticeably absent from the list of major urban centres famous for graffiti and street art: New York, Barcelona, San Francisco, Berlin, LA, Melbourne, and London. Even within Canada, smaller cities like Montreal and Vancouver hold a better reputation for graffiti than Toronto. Vandalist seeks [...]

Torontoist Environment Editor Chris Tindal is currently engaged in a federal by-election campaign. This weekly column is an attempt to offer a “behind the scenes” glimpse into what it’s like to be that mysterious Other: a politician. Right before Christmas (and just days before the deadline) the prime minister finally called a by-election for the [...]

Last week, Toronto-based advertising agency TAXI announced 15 Below, a new project to coincide with TAXI’s fifteenth anniversary that would see the company create, manufacture, and distribute 3,000 coats for homeless people across North America. Designed by TAXI’s executive creative director Steve Mykolyn and designer Lida Baday (pictured), the waterproof, windproof, and plentily-pocketed coat serves [...]