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The ever-reliable Transit Toronto has just posted a comprehensive list of a number of Ontario transit services' holiday hours. If you have any intention of using any or all of Barrie Transit, Brampton Transit, Burlington Transit, Durham Region Transit, GO Transit, Guelph Transit, Hamilton Street Railway, Milton Transit, Mississauga Transit, Oakville Transit, Orangeville Transit, Region of Peel Transhelp, Toronto Transit Commission, or York Region Transit between today and December 28, the list is an invaluable look at how you will and won't be able to get around over the next week.

James Bow. Transit Toronto Editor. Blogger. Yonge Street dream-dasher. Fantasy novel writer. Anti–Harry Potter activist.

Transit Toronto just helpfully reminded us of the TTC's (and pretty every other GTA-based transit systems') updated holiday schedule.

Transit enthusiast Miguel Syvap have come up with this dream map of the TTC which includes lines along Eglinton, York and more. Yes, subway expansion at this level is unsustainable and unlikely unless money starts raining from the sky (and even then, we kinda think streetcar expansion makes more sense).

It's a weekend of returns. College teachers are going back to the classrooms after three weeks of being on the picket lines. An arbitrator has been brought in to negotiate a settlement between the teachers and their employers.

The saga of the anagram transit maps continues. Sean Lerner, who last week stood in support with blogger RobotJohnny by hosting the TTC Anagram Map on his site and pushing for supporters to mail their complaints to the TTC, received a note from TTC committee chair Howard Moscoe. Transit Toronto has more here.

It's old news now, but just in case you didn't hear, Boing Boing editor and former Torontonian Cory Doctorow is one of three judges for the 2006 Blooker prize. The Lulu Blooker prize is awarded to the best non-fiction, fiction and comic books inspired by a blog (or blog turned into books). The most impressive title on the short list, in Torontoist's humble opinion is Julie Powell's Julie and Julia, the New York secretary that cooked every recipe in Julia Child's epic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. But we also have a soft spot for Toronto artist Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics. (pictured above)

Margaret Atwood is signing books, actually she's using her newly developed machine to sign books. It seems that Atwood is sick and tired of doing endless book tours and signing countless books, so she's invented a machine that allows her to remotely sign books. Torontoist sympathizes with Atwood, who is approaching 70, and would find whirlwind publicity tours tiresome after the 30+ books she's done. Frankly, if the invention let's Atwood spend more time writing she can use as many remote controlled signing devices as she wants! After all the Beatles did their best work (Sgt. Pepper's, the White Album) after they stopped touring, what does that tell you?

Over on the Transit Toronto forum, a transit fan uncovers an interesting quote from the January 5th, 1950 Toronto Star:

We own the TTC. We paid for it with tax dollars and at the farebox. But this month the city had to PAY Viacom Outdoor Ltd for permission to promote the "Live with Culture" campaign on the TTC because Viacom has exclusive rights to all advertising on the transit system. Essentially, tax dollars were spent to buy back space we already own.

, to trick car drivers who would otherwise feel shame riding in the common people’s chariot.

TOist always seems to go up the down staircase when it comes to the TTC. We invariably find ourselves walking towards an exit, only to discover it's nothing but a wall with a door marked TTC Employees Only, behind which sit a group of dogs playing poker. Now we have the TTC rider guide to defend us from such frustration. It's a pocket-size paper fold with mini-maps of each subway station and its respective ups, downs, ins and outs. You can download your own guide from the site, which also includes a list of subway quirks: Lawrence Station is the deepest, and the reason Christie Subway's tiles don't match is because of a fire in the station.