If you happen upon a group of tourists decked out in Chicago Bears regalia (with or without helmets) on your daily commute to work in the next few days, we think we may know the reason why. The Chicago Tribune recently informed its readers that a visit to Toronto would be well worth their while. The author of the article—who claims to have visited Toronto 137 times—recommends "10 Things To Love" about Toronto; let's......

You may have noticed the sharp rise in coffee cups littering our streets, which can only mean one thing: it’s Roll Up The Rim time at Tim Hortons once again. When Torontoist was young and starry-eyed, we used to dream of unrolling our cup and finding that we had won a car or a boat or some awesome camping gear. (What ever happened to that prize anyway? It was always the best one.) After......

A massive fire at a townhouse complex on Jarvis Street near Mutual resulted in the death of an unidentified victim on Saturday night. Construction on the townhouses had been abandoned for ten months and the building was being inhabited by squatters, says a resident at the adjacent Radio City condo tower. Novelist Norman Mailer died this weekend. Kim Ruehl at Seattlest has a nice eulogy: "He was, as most great novelists are, a complete......

This summer, Toronto will attempt "to probe the causes of panhandling and seek solutions" after business owners launched a complaint at City Hall yesterday. A Tim Hortons owner alleges that one beggar slapped her hard enough to draw blood after she asked him to leave her store. Restaurant owners complain that the homeless steal money and food off of patios and harass the patrons. Is it time Toronto did something about the panhandlers that......

The CouchSurfing Project has nothing to do with The Beach Boys or crowd surfing on a futon (although that must be fun) and has everything to do with traveling the world by the seat of a couch -- someone else's, that is. CouchSurfing.com is where couch surfers hook up with couch owners for a place to crash for a night or two for free at their travel destination. They can browse though the database......

Despite ostensibly being the possession of a man named Tim Horton rather than some sort of coalition of men with the same name, the Tim Hortons coffee/donut chain seems to have lost its much needed apostrophe. This apparently occurred some time during the mid-90s, allegedly because of Quebec's language laws. Remember the whole "Eatons vs. Eaton's" kerfuffle? Well, Timmies decided that it wasn't worth the money to produce two sets of signs, napkins, etc.......

It's not often we get to recycle a post and help solve a small civic problem. Jacqueline Thorpe wrote in the National Post today about how idiotic drivers using Tim Horton's drivethrus were causing traffic chaos. Well if those drivers could fire up Find By Click's handy dandy Tim Hortons google map mashup they could simply drive down to another Tim Horton's when the line grows too long and you start blocking traffic and......

An explosion at a Tim Hortons near Yonge and Bloor killed a man early this afternoon. The explosion apparently occured in the bathroom at the back of the store. The police evacuated a one block area and another Tim Hortons at Yonge and Lawrence later in the afternoon after rumours of a suspicious package. The Globe is reporting rumours that the dead man might have had explosives strapped to his body. Everyone is holding tight......

Though not as useful as beerhunter.ca, TimTrash.com is one of the most excellent Googlemaps projects that Torontoist has seen in some time. It's a series of photographs of discarded Tim Hortons cups, mapped to their locations on the streets of Sudbury. Torontoist is also glad that her city has more delicious things to map.......