Congratulations. You've just moved into a home or apartment in the rapidly growing city of North York to start your bright future. You either don't own a car or prefer to use one as little as possible. Fixed public transit services haven't quite made it out to your neck of the woods yet you really want to be chauffeured by a bow-tie wearing driver with a creepy smile who will drop you off at......

How does a newly-opened shopping complex bring in shoppers? Hold a British-themed sale, featuring specials on fine UK products like Orange Julius and Gordon Lightfoot records! The Yonge-Eglinton Centre opened in October 1973 with Dominion and Horizon as its anchors. The short-lived Horizon chain was an attempt by Eaton's to enter the crowded discount department store field. This location was converted to an Eaton's store when the company pulled the plug on Horizon in......

Some Canadian cattle will now be allowed into the United States following a 4-year ban in the wake of several cases of "mad cow" disease. American Homeland Security regulations will still require that any bovines wishing to cross the border carry a valid passport. The latest UN report on climate change says that global disaster is a safe bet if we don't change our carbon-emitting ways by 2012. It's all good for Canadians though, as......

Photo by Greg Clow from Flickr. Yesterday, Torontoist got to go check out what's brewing with the Ontario Craft Brewers at the absolutely gorgeous LCBO that's been built into the old Summerhill-North Toronto CPR station. (Seriously. Go check it out. It's beautiful.) If you haven't heard of the OCB, it's an association of 29 small Ontario breweries dedicated to the craft of beer-making and to providing an alternative to the rather bland Molson-Labatt monopoly......

Election day is tomorrow, which provides a good opportunity to look back at how election ads were handled in the past. Today's selections come from the 1955 campaign, which Premier Leslie Frost's Progressive Conservatives won in a landslide on June 9th (83 PC, 11 Liberal, 3 CCF, 1 "PC Independent"). The "Big Blue Machine" was firmly entrenched, remaining in power for the next 30 years. York Centre was a new riding for the 1955......

As the early days of autumn bring cooler temperatures and colourful displays of nature, many city folk long to get onto some of the GTA's best hiking trails. If you think that a solitary drive out to the Bruce Trail is your only option, think again. If you can't or simply don't want to drive for an hour or longer just so you can be at one with nature, many local clubs—including the Toronto Bruce......

Pity Mr. Businessman, so lacking in colour. He may have secured a lovely office set for his coworkers from a venerable North Toronto furniture supplier, but his grey demeanor led to his dismissal during a round of belt-tightening at A.T. & Love in 1980. Note the pyramid, which plays into the "abstract mystery usually associated with office planning." The Pyramid Power fad reached its height in Toronto during the Maple Leafs' 1976 playoff run,......

The above cryptic cooler was spotted parked in the middle of the sidewalk in a quiet North Toronto neigbourhood early one morning this week. There were no apparent construction sites within easy cooler-toting distance. The cooler raises a variety of questions such as: "How did this thing get here?", "Specimen of what?" "Under what circumstances would I be expected to call the 1-800 number provided?" "Why can't I move it and what would happen......

Looking for a place to take the kids tonight after trick or treating? Well, if you agree with Torontoist that zombies, hideously disfigured freaks, and dismembered bodies are just the thing for young children, the Keewatin Horror is the place for you and your emotionally scarred offspring. Begun in 1997 as a one-time event for local kids in North Toronto, the Keewatin Horror has become an annual happening eagerly awaited by Halloween buffs from......

Pants off, dance off. Indie exotic dancers (as opposed to exotic indie dancers) have probably been around for a while (didn't Nathalie Portman play one in Closer?), but it's still interesting to hear that dancers at the North Toronto boutique erotique Mystique Lounge are now entertaining to the sounds of Bloc Party, Arcade Fire and Franz Ferdinand. (Not all independent artists per se, but still falling under that catch-all phrase, "indie") And it's not Mystique......

This week in film we come to you first of all with news from the last week in film (uh…) Most of which we slightly embarrassingly forgot to mention, as it’s all good stuff. First up, if you happen to know any filmmakers (or budding ones) who are also children somewhere between grade 3 and 12, submissions for this coming April’s Jump Cuts Young Filmmakers’ Showcase, part of the Sprockets Children's Film Festival, are......

- A Daily Showesque pop culture news show produced by the Comedy Network and starring the frighteningly-named Elvira Kurt has apparently been on the air for a few weeks. But if you don't have a television you can just go watch a nightly taping at the Toronto Film Studios. - Dopefiend.ca is a new TO site that promises to be "your style joint." Nice design, an inaugural interview with magic pony, and more on the......

Five Provinces, Two Friends, One Canoe, One Thousand Dreams! The slogan of the outdoors expedition that will see two friends paddling across the Canadian countryside with one goal in mind - Charity! Le Pistol drummer Drew Osborne will be teaming up with longtime pal Clare Cayley for the four-month adventure that begins mid-April when they will place their canoe in the North Saskatchewan River. The premise behind the journey is to replicate the paths taken......