Discovered in a men's washroom at College Park (the ones by the Subway, not the ones by the subway).......

Residential property taxes have skyrocketed this year, almost twice the rate of inflation. To lessen the blow, the city is considering a plan to set "pay-as-you-throw" fees for household waste pickup that would be integrated into your water bill. A standard-size garbage bin would cost $4 per month for weekly pickup, but the fee would increase with a special larger bin. There would be no penalty for additional recycling and compost pickup. Liberal MPP Kim......

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent 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! Though not exactly certain what happened here, SirCharlie caught the tail end of this arrest in College Park yesterday. He speculates that the arrest may have been connected with a smashed in car window in one of the nearby......

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 to map bridges, skyscrapers, and landmarks as well. Television news networks have relied on the paid, enhanced version Google......

The only way to break up the Nathan Phillips Square outdoor skating hegemony is to find alternatives in the downtown core. Obviously NPS will always be number one in our hearts, but don't forget you have your Lake Devo at Gould and Victoria and your Barabara Ann Scott rink in the bowels of College Park (pictured above).......