The above video—not safe for work unless you're using headphones—was shot by the late Peter Walker and is a clip from Min Sook Lee's documentary Hogtown: The Politics of Policing (winner of the best Canadian feature prize at Hot Docs 2005). Uploaded to YouTube fewer than three weeks ago, it's been passed around online over the last few days, since being linked to by Toronto Life's Philip Preville in a Friday blog post. The......

The CBC reports that the Toronto Port Authority, that lovely little federal body responsible for trying to build a bridge to the island airport and complicating waterfront development, has sued community advocacy group Community Air. The $3 million lawsuit alleges that the non-profit group has defamed the TPA. Spacing Wire has their analysis and John Barber dedicates his column in today's Globe to the lawsuit. We're echoing Barber's complaints about the lawsuit. This is a......

The city's right-wing councillors are trying to gang up on Mayor Miller and his budget. The Star reports that councillors Ootes, Minnan-Wong, Stintz, Shiner and Feldman strategized and decided that an item-by-item debate was not necessary. Instead council will be voting on the broad principles of the budget. The move is seen as a way to "sharpen" the debate perhaps adding fuel to the barely smouldering Pitfield vs. Miller flame. We're going to pull a......

Earlier this week, York Region launched its new rapid transit service: VIVA. Although a VIVA vehicle looks like a bus, sounds like a bus and even sort of feels like a bus, they’re marketing it as the unbus, to trick car drivers who would otherwise feel shame riding in the common people’s chariot. But they have a good excuse as the VIVA bus service is so much more than the bus service we’re used......

In a neat parallel of the recent outing of Deep Throat, John Barber goes all investigative on us and unearths the actual designer of the city's bike posts. And rather like the dismay we felt upon learning DT was just a Hooverite FBI cog, and not, say, Elizabeth Taylor, we're kind of bummed that, despite insider sources to the contrary, Jack L. had no hand in the design of these rather matter of fact city......

It's good to know that when bureaucracy and municipal inefficiency cause things to go pear-shaped, a columnist can just slap on a farce sticker and be done with the whole thing. How nice then, that John Barber provides such a classic example of the farce treatment in today's Globe. It's the old 'what a world we live in where others battle tyrants and we have enough time to frivolously fret about posters?' routine. But Barber,......