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 [...]

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 [...]

Flickr has just launched Places, a new location-centric way to explore the best photography in the world. Harnessing the site's geo-tagging features (which allow users to plot their photos on a map), Places creates a page for most major cities, regions, and countries, featuring popular photos, popular photographers, popular tags, and popular groups for that area. In addition to checking out the fun that is Toronto's page (top recent tags: "santaclausparade" and "parade," current...

Ontario Conservative leader John “The Tory” Tory has promised that if elected a Conservative government would allocate $800 million to public transit in the province. Tory also confessed that it has been a long-time dream of his to one day ride on a streetcar, but that his chauffeur wasn’t yet licensed to drive one. David [...]

Canadians must really, really hate their political leaders. At least that’s what a recent online poll conducted by The Beaver is saying. The Canadian history magazine asked readers who they believe to be the worst Canadian. 15,000 votes later, the results are in. On the list are four prime ministers—Chrétien ranked seventh, Harper got sixth, [...]

If you like Honda Civics modded with blue neon, enormous spoilers and V-Tech stickers, you’re gonna love what’s happening to Toronto’s most iconic structure. Management of Canada’s National Tower (formerly the Canadian National Tower) have begun testing the unfortunate new animated LEDs that were recently installed, dramatically transforming a brilliant exercise in modernist subtlety into [...]

MuchMusic reports that VJ Sarah Taylor underwent emergency surgery on Thursday morning at a hospital in Las Vegas to relieve pressure on her brain. 25-year-old Taylor remains in an induced coma in the intensive care unit and is reported in stable condition. It is not yet known what caused the pressure on her brain. The [...]

Yesterday marked the official release of Google Earth 4 (the public beta has been available since the summer), a free product with a cleaner interface and a beefed-up focus on 3-D architectural imagery. Part of the appeal Google Earth holds is “flying” through three-dimensional terrain as if in a 90s-era flight simulator, and Google wants [...]

Well, not even a week until the Film Festival is left, and frankly, Torontoist is ever so slightly… No, scratch that, we’re utterly crapping our pants over the enormity of trying to cover the world’s largest film festival. We’re only little! Both Eye and Now have already started their festival buzz machines, um, buzzing – [...]

If it weren’t for our life as an -ist, we’re not sure we’d ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that’s what we’re all about this week. Phillyist keeps it fresh by getting a new motto, [...]

It’s old news now, but just in case you didn’t hear, Boing Boing editor and former Torontonian Cory Doctorow is one of three judges for the 2006 Blooker prize. The Lulu Blooker prize is awarded to the best non-fiction, fiction and comic books inspired by a blog (or blog turned into books). The most impressive [...]