Since fake pharmaceutical ads for a drug called "Obay" starting appearing across Ontario (and elsewhere) last week, everyone from street artist Frank Shepard Fairey (aka OBEY) to Scientologists to comedian Maggie Cassella has been fingered as the culprit behind them. Last Friday, three days after the ads seem to have launched, we traced them, with no small amount of confidence, to a substantially less dramatic source––Colleges Ontario, an advocacy organization representing twenty-four colleges across......

Last Friday, Torontoist published an article about Posterchild's latest project––fake subway fliers. On Sunday, the Sun published an article about the same topic, with a paragraph that was identical to a portion of Torontoist's article. The Sun today (Monday) issued this correction and apology: "A story in the Sunday Sun about a local guerilla artist known as Posterchild contained a paragraph which was not attributed to torontoist.com. The Sun apologizes for the error." That apology......

At random intervals, two Torontoist staffers square off to debate an issue that's important to our city. We invite our readers to join the debate in the comments section following the post. Last Friday June 29 was designated a "national day of action" for First Nations people to raise public awareness on Native issues. While most of the activities were peaceful, there were some groups which went further, engaging in illegal blockades of roads and......

Among the dangers of a heavy Toronto snowfall is the treachery of intersections when it all begins to melt. Last Friday in the Annex we needed a labyrinthine contingency route to avoid falling knee-deep in icy slush.......

Last Friday, when excerpts from Michael Ignatieff's Blood & Belonging were posted, Torontoist thought it to be rather old news. Instead, it cause a minor comment fury from Liberal supporters, and included this harrassing email: Quoting Danielle : > What kind of an idiot are you? Did you not take the time to read the whole > chapter, much less the book. You should be embarrassed. In choosing this > completely out of context quote......

The Serial Diners have been visiting every restaurant in the yellow pages since 1989. At their current rate, they'll complete the rigorous task of dining at all of them by 2035. Last Friday marked the commencement of their "So Happy Together" series, where they'll visit all the Happy restaurants in Toronto, and Spadina's Happy Seven on Friday. Founded by Jason Taniguchi, a U of T student in 1989, the group's rules are simple, and often......

When a cell phone goes off in the middle of a play, the logical person to hiss at is the miscreant who forgot to turn off his or her phone, of course. At the same time, however, we must recognize that to err is human. Even Torontoist has had something of ours beep at an inappropriate time once or twice. (It was a funeral. Yeeks.) Less understandable are theatre companies that still do not have......