Before his death last week in an Indiana automobile accident, Brendan Burke’s presence on Wikipedia was limited to a single line added last November to the bottom of his father’s page. The son of Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke had publicly revealed that he was gay, and that his famously hot-tempered father was [...]

Illustration by Jeremy Kai/Torontoist. We all want to know what’s awesome and what sucks. But keeping track of top-ten lists, tennis tournaments, the Oscars, national elections, Nobel Prizes, and little-league trophies can be exhausting. Local writer couple Alison Broverman and Justin Go seek to simplify these limiting criteria for achievement with their blog, Tournament of [...]

Photo by Jonathan Goldsbie. You would assume that headline to be ironic and for some of the items listed herein to begin with “That Americans think that…” And indeed that’s the post we hoped to write when we decided to take a Hippo Tour. But this being the end of the season (tours run from [...]