A mystery is afoot in Riverdale. The residents of Cambridge Avenue near Broadview & Danforth have grown familiar in recent years with the roaming gangs of monkeys—a dozen at last count—that dangle from the utility wires above the street. They move about only under cover of darkness, stealthily assuming new positions every few nights. By day, they prefer to remain motionless, silently watching passersby far below. Aping the inclusive character of their neighbourhood, the......

Officials desperately arguing over who's responsible for potential financial shortfall for Expo 2015. If the answer is "somebody other than Toronto," we'll get to bid! If that is not the answer, however, things will be slightly more problematic. (That's the Perisphere and Trylon on the left there, by the way. From the New York World's Fair. They're famous, you know.) David Miller and Jane Pitfield come together to agree that the provincial and federal......

An audit of litter on Toronto's streets shows that Mayor Miller is on to something. The amount of litter on our streets is down 40% from 2002. The Mayor credits investment in city streets (ie. garbage cans, street cleaners) and you, dear citizen. High-profile lawyer Peter Shoniker is spending 15 months in jail for money laundering. Shoniker is well known among many of the city's powerful and during his court case received words of support......

Mayor David Miller doesn’t want to meet with him; neither does Police Chief Bill Blair. But that hasn’t stopped Lou Hoffer, the national director of the Guardian Angels of Canada, being named one of the 10 most important people in Toronto by Macleans. There’s no question that, for better or worse, he and the Angels have brought a discussion of law, order and the city’s fraying fabric to the fore. Don’t believe all the bad......

Police are on the hunt for two men who allegedly shot a man dead in a second-floor apartment at Church and Dundas last night. They believe that security footage from nearby Ryerson campus may also hold some leads. The shooting of a woman outside an Etobicoke sports bar a couple of days ago gets weirder. Turns out police think that the murderer was lying in wait for her and also that the gun used had......

First it was illegal guns, then it was Guardian Angels, are deposed club kings the next thing to cross the border into Canada? We got tipped off by Jen Chung of Gothamist that Peter Gatien, infamous NYC club king, is hard at work getting his new club ready for Toronto. Our city became his adopted home after he was hounded out of NYC. New York magazine has a massive article on the man. Here's......

The Guardian Angels hold their first recruiting session and vow to be on the streets by the summer. The mayor and the chief of police gave them the cold shoulder last time but criticism is a little more muted this time around. Torontoist remains lukewarm on the volunteer crime-prevention group. We'd prefer to see trained police officers doing the job of crime prevention and community policing but can understand how people in the city feel......