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Photo by Jonathan Goldsbie.

Every Saturday morning, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today.

When you go through the doors of City Hall, one of the first things you'll probably see (especially if you're headed to the café, library, or washrooms) is "Metropolis" to your immediate right, an expansive "mural" made out of 100 000 nails, their blunt ends jutting out in patterns of concentric circles. And you won't be able to resist running your hand along it, no matter how late you are for your meeting or how badly you have to get to the washroom. It is arguably, after the building itself, the most impressive and affecting piece of art within Toronto's City Hall.

Torontoist loves books, we go positively ga ga over them. So when there's a chance for us to pick up cheap books, we can go a little overboard.

The Globe and the Star both report that Michael "The Smartest Prime Minister We Could Have" Ignatieff will be leaving the ivy covered walls of Harvard for the uh, slightly less ivy covered walls of the University of Toronto.