The ever-reliable Transit Toronto has just posted a comprehensive list of a number of Ontario transit services' holiday hours. If you have any intention of using any or all of Barrie Transit, Brampton Transit, Burlington Transit, Durham Region Transit, GO Transit, Guelph Transit, Hamilton Street Railway, Milton Transit, Mississauga Transit, Oakville Transit, Orangeville Transit, Region of Peel Transhelp, Toronto Transit Commission, or York Region Transit between today and December 28, the list is an invaluable......

A Milton woman went on a rampage with a samurai sword on Sunday, injuring her boyfriend and an off-duty firefighter, smashing windows at a gas station and hacking at a parked car. While Torontoist doesn't condone senseless irrational violence, you've got to give her points for style. After a firestorm of criticism, the City has put the brakes on their controversial plan to sell land in Yorkville to McDonalds. The problem is that since there's......

Provincial and federal elections in Canada are largely determined by quirks of geography. That is, the number of seats each party receives in the legislature is rather independent of the popular vote and has more to do with the way people of particular political leanings are concentrated (or not) within arbitrarily-drawn districts. This makes pre-election polling an interesting exercise in extrapolation; a particular percentage of popular support could translate into quite a range of......

The CBC is reporting that the provincial government announced an ambitious new project today to revamp Kipling Station and turn it into a major transit hub for Etobicoke and Mississauga. The announcement came from Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield and Environment Minister Laurel Broten early this afternoon. The new station, which will be owned and operated by GO Transit, is set to have an inter-regional bus terminal and will connect Mississauga Transit and GO buses......

Operating a public transit system is a difficult job, continually plagued by budget cuts, aging infrastructure and rampant customer dissatisfaction. We've always been fans of GO Transit, however, which has generally proven to be clean and reliable despite being operated by the Government of Ontario (hence, the acronym "GO"). When the 2005-06 provincial budget was announced and included more than $300 million in funding for GO's operating and capital costs, transit enthusiasts were ecstatic.......

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! We were struck by this photo captured by Flickr pool contributor jim.vanmeggelen of the inside of Toronto Railway Company #1326—specifically by the workmanship inherent in these old streetcars. This particular car was built in 1910 and retired 41 years later, and......

Statistics Canada reports a national population increase of 5.4% since 2001, yet downtown Toronto only experienced an increase of 0.9%. The boom is being attributed to immigration, which experts predict will be our only means of population growth by 2030. It seems everyone is happy to settle in the suburbs as towns like Brampton (33.3%) and Vaughan (31.2%) are growing as fast as houses can be built. Milton has grown an astounding 71.4%. I......

The motion to reopen Parliamentary debate on same-sex marriage was thrown to the curb, kicked a few times, then repeatedly stabbed with a rusty knife. Charles McVety, head of the Canadian Family Coalition, says his group will not give up the fight against same-sex marriage because "the people of Canada are not going to let this go." (Of course, a solid majority of the people of Canada support same-sex marriage, and a bunch more......

Some game system made by some game company named Sony launched today. And sold out in about five minutes. The jury is still out on whether this will be a bigger letdown than The Phantom Menace was. Famous conservative economist Milton Friedman died yesterday at 94. Since John Kenneth Galbraith died six months ago and these things traditionally happen in threes, you'd better be careful if you're a world-famous economist! Re: Toronto traffic: we're......

If, like Torontoist, you spent the first third of the fall season desperately clinging to the last brittle twigs of summer, you may have awoken this morning, panicked that the best of autumn has already passed you by. They gave away the pumpkins last week. Thanksgiving is over, and you were too busy pretending to enjoy that last windblown, patio beer to even notice. What of your dignity? Why did you not cling to that......

Tonight brings an infrequent opportunity to see vids that don't get the Much Music Ashlee Simpson treatment (ie-heavy roation). And that's a shame, because the offerings at tonight's 3rd annual Indie Music and Video fest promise visual treats of all varieties. Torontoist saw Pepe Deluxe's 'Girl' video at last year's WWSFF Scene and Not Heard program, and later at Resfest, but the video, a soul track that looks as if it's being interpreted by Milton......