You know all those flashy LED lights on the CN Tower? Apparently they're going to get flashier by this Thursday. U of T is set to approve the plan to build a $53 million Centre for High Performance Sport just west of Varsity Stadium on Bloor Street. Maybe their football team could start training to win a game. A 13-year-old has become a quadriplegic after a gang-related stabbing outside of Christie Station on Friday......

A long-awaited book of poetry, Blissful Times, gets launched tonight at Clinton’s by writer, multimedia artist and activist Sandra Alland. We’d like to call Sandra Alland the sweetheart of the Toronto small press scene, but she might kick our asses, so forget that we had that thought. We can safely say that Clinton’s will be full of good cheer tonight for BookThug’s spring launch. Sandra has written three collections of poetry, performed all over......

Reader Emily R heard this going west on the Bloor Subway line, around Christie Station, last Saturday. Aunt: So, we're gonna go see your dad then? 5 or 6-year-old girl: Yeah. He used to have a girlfriend, but not any more, `cause she did pots. Every Passenger within Earshot: (LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY) Quoth Emily R to us: "I wonder if the girlfriend also does pans?"......

Day 13 of the 69-day TTC Station project, at Christie Station on the Bloor-Danforth (Green) line, looking towards Christie Pitts. Taken at 7:46 PM on Sunday, June 4th. Photos throughout the project, including those not featured on Torontoist, will be available in the 69 Photoset on Flickr.......

TTC stations can either be accessible, or not. Except for Christie Station, shown here. It's neither not accessible nor accessible. It's as if the TTC ran out of escalator: There's an escalator that almost reaches the station floor, followed by a short flight of stairs. At the transfer point (no transfer required though), there's a small platform in which to rest. What gives? Christie is different for several reasons. On October 15, 1976, a subway......