Ottawa to introduce new fuel economy standards. They will be "at least" as stringent as American fuel economy standards. In response, David Suzuki blew upon a party horn sarcastically and waved a tiny flag, his derision apparent to all and sundry. Bobby Fischer dies at 64. The former world chess champion was famous for beating the Russians, and for being quite possibly fairly insane, which inspired the nifty little film Searching For Bobby Fischer.......

Sears is threatening to sue Ryerson University after the department store giant dropped $10 million in donations and didn't get a building named after them. Sears claims they were promised top billing and instead only got a crappy logo inside a structure named after some guy who's probably never sold a single pair of wrinkle-free slacks. They're requesting a full building and a commitment from the University that campus hipsters will wear only Sears-bought......

Is there an age limit for trick-or-treating? While there appears to be little consensus on this head-scratcher, a national hunger-focused campaign is giving college students the opportunity to trick or treat, guilt-free. This All Hallows' Eve, 3,000 volunteers from Humber College, U of T, and Ryerson University will don spooky costumes and go door to door collecting non-perishable food items for Trick or Eat 2007. They’ll be collecting on behalf of Meal Exchange, a......

October 16 is the day that the Walt Disney Company was founded (1923), the day that Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act in response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping (1970), and the day that President Bush signed into law the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (2002). It is also, though you may not know it, World Food Day, as deemed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United......

From October 1–4, the Walk21 conference comes to Toronto. Keynote speaker Dr. David Suzuki will be joined by a host of academics, urban planners, elected officials and activists to discuss urban pedestrian issues. Lectures, discussions and workshops will cover the theme of “putting pedestrians first” in policies and infrastructure in order to make active transportation viable and attractive in increasingly dense urban areas. Running concurrent to Walk21, the YWALK youth forum is aimed at......

Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten will not build a two-storey garage for their home after all. Not that Torontoist doesn't think that the garage was a bad idea, because we do, but one of her neighbours is trying to get the court to make her pay him back the $10,000 he spent preparing for the municipal board hearing. Isn't that kind of excessive? Dude, you got what you wanted. Torontoist does not see where in......

Sam Sniderman (aka. The Record Man) wants the Sam's building to be sold to Ryerson University. Unfortunately, this does not comply with the conspiracy to turn every store on Yonge Street into a discount shoe outlet or nail salon. Sorry. Toronto couldn't handle a dirty bomb. According to a federal study, "the explosion of a small dirty bomb near the CN Tower would spew radioactivity over four square kilometres, resulting in mass anxiety, a......

Local Jewish groups are protesting the decision to invite Black Panther leader Malik Zulu Shabazz to speak in Toronto. Black Youth Taking Action will be hosting a talk this evening by Shabazz, who is an outspoken anti-semite and holocaust denier. The children of the late cartoonist Ben Wicks are suing for the possession of 2,408 drawings that were left behind in a move. The distraught family plans to donate the drawings to the Ryerson......

This week, the biggest news in movies is that Warner Bros. has decided to stop all advance promotional screenings of its films in Canada, in attempt to stem the flow of pirated movies from Canada. Yo ho ho! Unfortunately, they’ve likely decided that Canada is a hotbed of disgusting movie pirates on some pretty wonky data. Though apparently there’s no law against recording movies in a theatre onto a camcorder in Canada, which is kind......

Remember Makeout!? You can see what happened with the roomful of 200 people smooching at the Ryerson University Film Festival. This weekend RUFF will showcase films by about 40 graduating Image Arts students from May 10-12 at Royal Cinema. Eat popcorn to Billy Bites People, in which, well, Billy bites people, claymation in Happy Endings Sanatorium, and Jesus’ second coming in Zombie Jesus!. A man steals sounds from existence and catalogues them in Even With......

After finishing a year of schooling, there can't be anything better than plastering the walls of your collegiate institution with anything you want. Each year the photography, film and new media programs at Ryerson University culminate in an exhibit of over 250 student artists' work titled Maximum Exposure. Going into its 12th year, the event amasses pieces from all years of study and creates a three-storey gallery by using the entire School of Image......

Now that we have your attention, let us explain. Toronto filmmaker/photographer Ryan Hughes launches his newest project Makeout! this Saturday, March 3, at the Ryerson University Business Building at the corner of Bay and Dundas Street West. Makeout! is both an event and a film. 125 couples will fill up the room to your left and “lock lips for the camera in what will be one of the largest displays of affection this city has......

Calling all online A/V junkies -- podcasters, vloggers, and even bloggers, and all those listening, watching and reading new media. PodCamp Toronto wants you to spend a weekend sharing, discussing and learning all things podcast. A podcast, in case you didn't know yet, is a downloadable audio or video file, often syndicated through blogs. On February 24 and 25, everyone from podcast amateurs to connoisseurs are welcome to participate in the "unconference" held at......

Happy Groundhog Day! Wiarton Willie, Shubenacadie Sam and Punxsutawney Phil did not see their shadow this morning and thus we should expect an early spring. Should we trust our weather report to the groundhogs? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seems to agree with our furry friends, also predicting hotter climates and sea level rise. The countdown to Deal or No Deal continues. I don't know what is worse: Howie Mandel, the show's constant......

Toronto native Jeremy Podeswa has directed for both television and cinema. His previous films include Eclipse and The Five Senses, and he’s directed such shows as Six Feet Under, Rome, Queer as Folk, Nip/Tuck, and Carnivale. He is also the director of the upcoming movie Fugitive Pieces, the cinematic adaptation of Anne Michaels' classic Canadian novel. Podeswa will be speaking tonight at his Alma Mater, Ryerson University, as part of The Kodak Lecture Series. Podeswa......

The urban sprawl in Toronto is a continual point of debate on Torontoist (see, for instance, our interview with Brad Lamb), but tomorrow you will get a chance to share your opinions on the matter outside of our sullied comment threads. On Monday, 7pm to 9pm at the Parkdale branch of the Toronto Public Library, fourth year students from Ryerson University will present their study of gentrification in Parkdale, followed by a moderated panel......

Not everyone's December 25th consists of bulging stockings hanging from a mantel, unwrapping presents in the reflection of Christmas tree ornaments, and a grandmother in her pearls and green and red apron carving a turkey at the family dinner. For those not living in a movie, who are boycotting the holidays, or who forgot about Santa’s birthday, Torontoist has the guide to an alternative Christmas. Those Charity Drives Were for a Reason Remember the......

Fourteen women engineering students were killed because they were just that - women studying engineering. On December 6, 1989, an anti-feminist gunman entered l'École Polytechnique de Montréal and murdered them. Tomorrow Toronto will remember the Montreal Massacre as part of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, otherwise known as "December 6th." You can attend the YWCA Toronto daytime candlelight vigil at 1 p.m. at the organization's headquarters, or visit the......

Nine graduate students at Ryerson University and York University in the communications and culture program have banded together to create Make the World Your Salon: Modernist Salon Culture, an exhibit that resurrects the salon culture of the early twentieth century frequented by the bohemian artists of the day. The exhibit encompasses photography, artwork, and multi-media, and features graphic photography by New Yorker Carl Van Vechten; a reproduction of Marcel Duchamp’s With White Noise; and the......

The Ryerson Review of Journalism is one of the most acclaimed magazines in the country – and it’s run entirely by the students of Ryerson University’s school of journalism. Running a national magazine is a costly endeavour, so to fill the coffers the RRJ is hosting a black-tie fundraiser this Tuesday night. It promises to be a good one. In honour of the 40th anniversary of Truman Capote’s Party of the Century, the RRJ is......

Robert Wiszniowski gets 14 years for killing and dismembering his wife, Rose McGroarty, in Parkdale last year. Motive? She caught him smoking crack and threatened to call police. The TTC started installing security cameras on its 1,500 buses and 250 streetcars yesterday. Howard Moscoe says it's all part of a response to a "terrorist threat lingering over all transit systems," but more importantly, they're expected to deter crime and prevent driver injury. A woman was......

Windy enough for ya? Those heavy gusts that left you scrambling for your scarves yesterday also knocked out power to some of Toronto's east end, and much of Atlantic Canada and Quebec. Michael Ignatieff isn't the only local politician using the internet to reach younger voters. Mayoral candidates David Miller, Jane Pitfield and Stephen LeDrew are hoping to YouTube themselves into City Hall by releasing campaign videos on the popular website. How are the candidates......

It surprises Torontoist that the Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Student Film Showcase has only been running for 3 years. I guess that means we can’t (quite yet) talk big about how winners went on to do great things, but getting your film shown on the big screen fits our description of a ‘great thing’, anyway. This year's Showcase is held at 7pm tomorrow night (Wednesday, May 24) at the Alliance Atlantis Cumberland Cinema......

The keen-eyed music lover has probably seen Nicholas Kennedy's work around town. Kennedy and Trip Print Press does posters for Toronto music fixtures like Wavelength and the Music Gallery. But his posters are very different, closer to 1930s De Stijl style art prints than the average thing you see on cafe walls and lampposts. After visiting Trip Print press we understand why. Kennedy uses old school letterpresses to print up his posters, typesetting them by......

The civic minded folks at Spacing magazine, Ryerson University and the University of Toronto have brought Wendy Radmacher Willis, executive director of the City Club of Portland to lecture at Innis Hall, 7:00 tonight. Since 1916 the City Club of Portland has advocated, fought for and raised issues of concern to the citizens of that little patch of civic sanity in the Pacific Northwest. The club tackles everything from education reform, the Patriot Act, social......

Looking up Emily Haines' miniskirt is now a university-sanctioned frosh week event. At least that's implicit in the big Ryerson University frosh event this year. The 'little college that could' throws a surprisingly capable frosh week party tomorrow night on the Island, with the aforementioned miniskirt and her band Metric, as well as K*Naan (pronounced KAY-nawn), Funkadesi amongst others. With Sloan headlining the University of Toronto frosh bash 2005, Ryerson shows that money does......

Protesters flooded Toronto Police Headquarters near Yonge and College yesterday to campaign for Wendy Maxwell, a community activist from Costa Rica. Last Saturday, 51 Division officers busted up the International Women's Day Fair at Ryerson University to arrest Ms Maxwell on charges related to immigration procedure. Thanks to a spineless tip-off from Ry-High security, Maxwell now sits in jail awaiting imminent deportation. To read about Wendy's case, and find out why it's in everyone's best......

All these Mixtapes and you barely even know me! So here I've cut-and-paste my Blogger Profile for you. Name: Torontoist Josh Location: Canada Mood: Dumb Now Playing: NaS, "You Know My Style" Fave Movies: Withnail and I, Do the Right Thing, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Fave Books: Straight From the Heart, the Autobiography of Jean Chretien Fave Music: Townes Van Zandt, Moldy Peaches, Cold Crush, that one Culture Club song Likes: Pizza, sleepovers, dissing people......

Seminal New York writer and director Spike "It's Gotta Be the Shoes" Lee will be speaking at Roy Thompson Hall on March 14, making his first public appearance in Toronto in five years. Organized by Ryerson University Students Administrative Council, the talk and question/answer period is bound to include subjects like the New York Knicks and the time they lost the championship to the Houston Rockets in 1993. The filmmaker is on something of a......

Ryerson University has got to find some more space for their artists. Take the more than 40 artists showing at the School of Image Arts 3rd Year Show which runs until Feb. 3rd at the Ryerson Gallery. The 100+ works are crammed into every imaginable space. Photos are hung on top of one another, on pillars, behind desks. Travel photos are squeezed right next to portraits, intimate still-lifes compete for your attention with expansive landscapes.......