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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'highspeed'

January 26, 2007

Our title this week of course refers to Catch and Release, a film which has been so endlessly trailered on TV (and we don’t even watch that much) that Torontoist feels like we could recite the whole bloody film right now. “The man I was going to marry is dead! I’m sitting wearing my wedding dress and moping – it’s a girl thing! Kevin Smith is fat and talentless, but friends with Ben Affleck......

Continue Reading "Film Friday: Throw It Back or Hurry Up and Beat It to Death with That Oar"

November 22, 2006

Is it still shocking if you're not surprised? It's been revealed that former police chief Julian Fantino's special task force on police misconduct was most likely formed only to avoid a full-scale public inquiry. It's all spelled out in a 2001 report that's being labeled "a blueprint for how to conceal from the public the malfeasance and the corruption that had been going on in the [Toronto police service]." Golly. Another report confirms that neighborhood......

Continue Reading "Reports confirm obvious, tax on empty hope ever more taxing, shots fired"

April 5, 2006

We were intrigued by an idea brought up by David Ross on the Reading Toronto site of a high speed train to Montreal. Shanghai has one that takes people from a suburban airport to downtown Shanghai in five minutes. Torontoist has taken this ride in a cab and trust us, it's LOOONG and congested. It currently takes about five hours by train to get to Montreal, a high speed train could do this in one.......

Continue Reading "Screw The York U Subway, Howsabout a Monorail?"

November 4, 2005

Remember way back when you were young and naïve, sitting at the keyboard of your IBM or Tandy clone, painstakingly typing out salutations in long, grammatically correct sentences that would set your grade nine English teacher’s heart aglow? Sure, you may smile to yourself as you display your techno-savvy with the occasional use of colon and parenthesis to display crude cyber-tude but let’s face it: there was nothing super about that information highway. Now,......

Continue Reading "Gargantua Cybers It Up"

January 26, 2005

Hypertag is a British company that manufactures technology that enables your celly to correspond with nearby billboards. As if you wanted to invite the ad into your space. But on the off chance you do, Media in Canada reports that the technology is comin' to Canada. It lets advertisers offer up ring tones, coupons, special messages, and all the other stuff you usually crumble up and discard when it makes its way into your mailbox......

Continue Reading "Hypertagging Toronto"

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