Tip Us Off
E-mail us with news tips, discoveries, story ideas, and anything else cool.
About Torontoist

Torontoist is a website about Toronto and everything that happens in it. More about us.

Editor-in-Chief: DAVID TOPPING

Publisher: GOTHAMIST

Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'markgrimes'

October 18, 2007

Pearson Airport reduces landing fees. The move was cheered by airlines, who can now drop their prices accordingly. Oh, wait, they won't do that, they'll only drop their prices by maybe about ten percent of what they could with the savings, and pocket the rest. Capitalism works! Stéphane Dion says Canadians don't want another election right now; thus, the Liberals won't challenge the throne speech. More accurately, the Liberals don't want another election right......

Continue Reading "Airport Fees Dropping, Liberals Not Challenging, and Time To Vote At Spacing"

November 10, 2006

This week, we wandered about the city and did a design analysis of election signs. This post doesn't exactly constitute voting advice -- unless you're often swayed by snazzy typography. At the same time, it's our belief that a terrible sign can tank an otherwise promising candidate and vice-versa. So what about the hotly-contested mayor's race? We have to admit that Pitfield's fiery red-on-yellow has an energy and passion that's missing from Miller's way-cool blue.......

Continue Reading "Design Daytripper: Election signs"

September 14, 2006

Students at Toronto area colleges and high schools are coping with the shootings at Montreal's Dawson College. The murders also has parents of high-school age children worried. Students in the GTA are doing better on provincial math and reading tests sadly those in Toronto-proper need more work. Sean Penn apparently missed that no smoking sign. The actor was caught smoking at a TIFF press conference and now the province is investigating whether the hotel should......

Continue Reading "Coping With the Dawson College Tragedy, Where There's Smoke There's Sean Penn, Parkdale-High Park Hits the Polls"

July 20, 2006

Howard Moscoe is harder to kill than a vampire. The TTC chair survives yet another non-confidence motion and pissed off councillor Mark Grimes so much that he actually quit his comissioner spot on the committee. So not only did he pass the vote he also successfuly flabbergasted an opponent into quitting. Now that's what we call a skilled political operator. In other TTC news, perimeter seating gets the thumbs down from Count Moscoe. He then......

Continue Reading "Moscoe Survives TTC Vote, Bomb Scare Grounds Plane, U of T Gets Urban Think Tank,"

2003- Gothamist LLC. All rights reserved. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy. We use MovableType.