That headline is only slightly misleading in order to alert you to Kensington's annual Festival of Lights, celebrating the winter Solstice tomorrow night. But we can assure you that there will be giant puppets and there will be fire, if not necessarily at the same time. Starting at 6:00 p.m, revelers will gather at the corner of Augusta and College and begin a procession down Augusta, east onto Baldwin, down Kensington Avenue, west on......

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! Sepia tones, black borders, and a missing sky add to the atmosphere of a dense city space in this photo by MCXL5. A monochromatic colour scheme removes the distinction between individual buildings and effortlessly melds the thick electrical lines into the......

Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten will not build a two-storey garage for their home after all. Not that Torontoist doesn't think that the garage was a bad idea, because we do, but one of her neighbours is trying to get the court to make her pay him back the $10,000 he spent preparing for the municipal board hearing. Isn't that kind of excessive? Dude, you got what you wanted. Torontoist does not see where in......

Michael Moore’s much anticipated Sicko hits, and having seen it, we can say it’s not particularly essential for Canadian viewers to watch, unless you want to feel smug about our lovely health care system, or slightly surprised that it only takes an hour or so in London (Ontario) to be seen in an emergency room. Yes, the film is chock-a-block with anecdotal evidence, and it’s probably to the film’s fault that, as usual, Moore......

Yesterday, the province gave Toronto $52,000 to test recycling programs in apartment complexes as part of the goal to divert 70 per cent of waste from landfill by 2010. King Street is still closed off because of the falling marble slab. Developer Harry Stinson says that it was a bad idea using marble in the first place. Police shot a man in the chest near Kingston Rd. E. and Lawrence Ave. early this morning.......

Ontario Lottery Corporation recalls over a million scratch lotto cards after a customer complains you can see a winner without scratching. Between this and the retailers-stealing-jackpot-tickets flap a few months ago, it is probably even odds that every Ontario lotto jackpot in the last five years has been won by one guy in Whitby named Fred. Four mature maple trees cut down to make room for a screen from the Islington Golf Club. The......

Almost 80,000 high school students applied to Ontario universities this year, and the universities are using the surge as a powerful bargaining chip. If you're a student of the University of Toronto, you'll know that the current strategy for dealing with this increase in enrollment is to pack the students in tight. With their debt climbing into the $100-million range, universities are demanding financial assistance from the government or they will stop accepting so......

City election officials are having a hard time figuring out whether lots of people on the voting list are actually eligible to vote. This may have a direct affect on municipal campaign financing. Toronto Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy can't spell Siemens but does uncover that TTC comissioners actually voted for an open bidding process for buying new subway cars. Somewhere along the line this was ignored in favour of the deal with Bombardier. The city......

Journalist turned Conservative candidate turned "Journalist" Peter Kent backs the Save Our St. Clair campaign in a story published in the National Post today. Kent cites the spiralling cost of the project as one of the reasons why the ROW is a bad idea. We'd like to point out to Mr. Kent that some of this spiralling cost came from the legal battle waged on the city by the SOS campaign. He also cites "local......

Paleontologists have discovered the remains of a beaver/otter/platypus like creature that once played along riverbanks during the Jurrasic era, some 100 million years ago, and alongside dinosaurs hundreds of times its size. LIke modern day beavers the animal would've used its tail for swimming and may have even used it to slap the water, warning others of its kind of predators. Though not related to modern day beavers, Torontoist can help but feel a little......

Most philanthropic organizations have jumped on the rubber band-wagon started by a certain cancer-beating, Tour de France winning, Sherryl Crow dating cyclist Cash strapped arts organizations have decided to opt out of the rubber band craze and gone another route. The e-bay auction. With over 5000 charities registered to sell everything from power lunches with Warren Buffett to stamps from Sierra Leone the E-bay auction isn't a bad idea. Brick Magazine, one of the best......