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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'transportcanada'

May 3, 2007

Toronto is a city of non-stop construction, which means non-stop trucks and trailers. We are also increasingly a city of cyclists, and sometimes the combination of these trucks and bikes can be deadly. Large trucking vehicles and school buses have a huge open space in front of their real wheels, and their raised chassis can easily cause a cyclist or pedestrian to be snagged and crushed beneath. A regional Toronto Coroner's report from 1998......

Continue Reading "New Summer, Same Question: Why No Wheel Guards?"

April 13, 2007

The fine for street racing is now $10,000. There goes my weekend. A man was discovered stabbed to death at 1:30 a.m. this morning on an empty subway car at Kennedy Station. The station was closed for investigation for most of the morning rush hour, and details are limited at this point. We'll keep you posted. Pro-Tip #6834: Don't describe a women's college basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" if you value your job at......

Continue Reading "Cool It Danny Zuko, Kennedy Assassination, Imus Canned For Bad Taste, Summerlicious Sucks"

August 30, 2006

If it's an election year it must be time to discuss the future of Toronto City Centre Airport. But you can't do that unless someone wants to build a bridge or, say, start a new airline to fly out of there - enter Porter Airlines. If you didn't catch the extensive article in The Star on the weekend, here's the deal: The commuter airline, set to start flying between here and Ottawa when they......

Continue Reading "The Island Airport is All Abuzz"

December 6, 2004

Torontoist doesn't partake of enough wacky pastimes. This picture, of a Clusterballooner, makes our complete lack of an adventure gene painfully clear. Yesterday was one of the clearest days we'd seen in a while, a day so crisp you could even see the ugly bank logos gleaming atop their respective towers. In short, a perfect day for clusterballooning. Speaking of clusterballooning, the first balloon artist to come up with the idea of tying four decorative......

Continue Reading "Hot Air Hobbies on the Rise, and Other, Unrelated Developments"

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