A scandal seems to be brewing over the conduct of Tuxedo Limousines after many people complained that the company was shitty and acted in bad faith. Interestingly, many of the people who hired limos through Tuxedo paid the company in cash, in parking lots or gas stations. This only confirms many of Torontoist's longstanding personal biases against people who hire stretch Hummers. Ontario's food banks issued a report yesterday calling upon the government to......

Waterfront Toronto has secured David Miller's support for knocking down part of the Gardiner Expressway, which currently looms over the waterfront like a massive prehistoric, um, highway. The teardown is likely to be delayed by a cost expected to be in the hundreds of millions, so Torontoist suggests doing a Berlin Wall on it—Sunday morning, we'll all meet down at the foot of Jarvis Street with our sledgehammers. In an unrelated busting-stuff-up story, demolition......

The committee charged with reviewing Ontario's payday loans law recommends a hard usury cap of sixty percent. Were it any lower, payday loan companies would have to shut down and go get real jobs and make their mothers proud of them. Were it any higher, payday loan companies would be dancing in the streets and shouting "hooray!" So sixty percent is apparently the fair number. A judge will decide today whether a videotaped interview......

David Miller's plan to ban recreational shooting ranges in the city of Toronto is arousing ire from shooting enthusiasts, who argue that banning air guns and single-shot target rifles isn't going to decrease gun violence. A representative from a suburban range said their members come from all walks of life, including homemakers, students, professionals, and those friendly Crip boys who always bring their own guns. Toronto Catholic School Board trustees have tentatively agreed to......

The Star reports that many nightclubs are flouting city bylaws by allowing patrons to smoke inside their premises. I wonder if that's really the most pressing problem down in Toronto's little Gomorrah on Richmond Street. The city has chopped down nineteen healthy trees in a park near Don Mills and Leslie in a strategy designed to reduce teen loitering and drug dealing by making parts of the park more visible from the road. No......