Flickr has just launched Places, a new location-centric way to explore the best photography in the world. Harnessing the site's geo-tagging features (which allow users to plot their photos on a map), Places creates a page for most major cities, regions, and countries, featuring popular photos, popular photographers, popular tags, and popular groups for that area. In addition to checking out the fun that is Toronto's page (top recent tags: "santaclausparade" and "parade," current......

Last Monday was not just the start of the Ontario general election campaign—it was also the beginning of a campaign to change the way we elect our representatives to Queen's Park. On October 10th, Ontarians will vote on a proposal by the Citizens' Assembly (a randomly-selected group of 103 Ontarians) to switch to a Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system, similar to that used in some other countries including Germany and New Zealand. A few......

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! Who says soccer—er, football—isn't a contact sport? Behold this moment frozen in time by Flickr pool contributor sthursby, taken last Wednesday during the U-20 FIFA World Cup at the National Soccer Stadium here in Toronto. The action finds Gambia's Ousman Jallow......

On Sunday night, a small motorcade of revellers snaked down the Danforth, whistling and beeping and waving what looked like the Japanese flag with a green background. Turns out it was the flag of Bangladesh and the occasion was the Bangladeshi team's triumph over Bermuda in Cricket World Cup. While most sports fans are fixated on basketball's Final Four, the rest of the commonwealth is feverishly following cricket's Super 8. The unsolved murder of......

When was the last time you jumped on your bed? How about jumped on a hotel bed- and documented the historic moment? More than likely you're long overdue for a hotel bed jump. For those of you spending the holidays in the hospitality industry's overnight lodging, here's your chance. On HotelsByCity.net, self-proclaimed hotel industry maven Chris Clarke of Chrispitality Media (pictured) blogs hotel bed diving episodes from around the world. The concept is simple --......

Think the World's Biggest Bookstore. Scratch that - think of a bookstore of free books that is as big as the world. Inspired by tracking websites such as Where's George? (the U.S. counterpart of Where's Willy?), Ron Hornbaker and Kaori Iha-Hornbaker gave birth to BookCrossing- members leave books in random public places for others to find, read, and leave in another place for another person. Referred to as "releasing books 'into the wild,'" it's a......

It's not quite an uprising more like a small complaint but an important one nonetheless. "Why are there no Q and A's at the Elgin theatre," Jeremy Barker at Popped Culture asks? "We’ve already accosted two film fest directors this week to ask what was up. Noah Cowan, co-director of the festival, explained that while “we understand that interaction is integral to the festival experience, emptying the theatre is a logistical nightmare....But is it really......