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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'thunderbay'

September 26, 2006

The report on options for the Gardiner is going to be released to council and the public which means there'll be a lot of talk this election about tearing the ugly sucker down. A prof is suing York University for $10 million, he thinks they have a pro-Israel bias. A prof at U ot T is getting a special room so he can smoke pot. He is legally allowed to smoke marijuana for medical......

Continue Reading "Gardiner Report Secret No More, Bombardier Deal Done, Pitfield's Their Woman"

July 26, 2006

Writer and transit nut James Bow has disproven a cherished Toronto myth, that Yonge Street is the longest street in the world. It was a tourist touchstone for Toronto that its main commercial strip, running up the centre of the city from Lake Ontario to the northern boundary and beyond, was the longest street in the world. The world record entry stood alongside the CN Tower’s title as the world’s tallest freestanding structure, and......

Continue Reading "James Bow Busts Yonge Street Myth"

June 16, 2006

The province has given municipalities the power to set closing time for bars. Toronto even gets the power to add additional taxes to booze. The province might even give this power to other municipalities if it works well in Toronto. Was there a link between the man who took a shot at police in Etobicoke yesterday and a series of recent sexual assaults? Council wants to make it illegal to harm law-enforcement animals. The law......

Continue Reading "Later Last Call?, No Drake Hotel in Leslieville, Bombardier Deal Confuses Mayor"

December 21, 2005

That Ann never quits! This holiday travel Streeter comes to us straight from Thunder Bay, by way of the Toronto airport Flight Attendant 1: We allow hairspray as carry on, right? Flight Attendant 2: Of course we do. You know that. Flight Attendant 1: I do know that. But sometimes I doubt myself. It's a curse.......

Continue Reading "But Streeter's Travel Insurance Doesn't Cover Random Acts of Hairdressing!"

March 7, 2005

Not to Thunder Bay or anything, just up to York University. Art lovers can check out Governor General Award winning video artist Istvan Kantor at the Art Gallery of York University. Controversial is the word thrown around when describing Kantor’s work. His regularly uses blood in his work and has been kicked out and had a restraining order placed on him by the National Gallery of Canada. Interestingly his works are now in the National......

Continue Reading "Two Reasons to Head North"

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