Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'tomhanks'
January 11, 2007
Toronto can't seem to keep its trash out of trouble. Those giant sidewalk trash bins aren't generating enough in ad revenue to honour their $1-million-a-year payout to the city, so now what? Well, bids for Toronto's street furniture contract are still being accepted. The winning companies will be supplying garbage bins, bus shelters and bike racks for no cost, but will reap the benefits of the "furniture"'s potential adspace. The Big International Headline: US......
Continue Reading "Trash Does Not Pay, Iran Gets A Stern Warning, Court TV Ontario, Winter Is Coming Back"July 12, 2006
With gas prices at hellishly high levels and lobbyists calling for government intervention in Ontario to lower prices, it seems that there's no better time for Who Killed the Electric Car?, an excellent documentary about the slow death of the EV1, General Motors' electric car. Quick backstory*: In 1990, The California Air Resources Board (CARB) targeted the source of California's pollution problem: auto exhaust. CARB created the Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEV), which required 2% of......
Continue Reading "Who Killed the Electric Car?"March 4, 2005
Pour une bonne cause, TOist ferait n’importe quoi. C’est pourquoi il vous urge d’aller chercher des billets pour la pièce Oscar et la dame rose. Le Théâtre Français de Toronto (TfT) et la fondation James Birrell, nommé ainsi en l’honneur de l’histoire du jeune garçon James Birrell qui, à huit ans, est décédé du cancer, le combattant depuis l’âge de trois ans, présentent cette pièce de théâtre de charité. La pièce raconte l’histoire d’un jeune......
Continue Reading "French Fridays Quand les jours sont comptés: le chemin d’une vie tumultueuse"