If you're interested in pursuing a career in crime here in Canada, it looks like your best bet is to pack up and move to Regina. According to an article published in Maclean's, Regina (aka "The Other Other Queen City") has the dubious distinction of being the most dangerous city in Canada, followed closely by Saskatoon and Winnipeg. The rankings, based on per-capita crime rates published by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, paint......

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......

Once upon a time, governments worked together to create ambitious and expensive projects like, say, public transit. Then came the 1990s when funding was summarily cut off. Since then, we've seen funding restored in dribs and drabs, the half-implementation of several ideas (we're looking at you, Sheppard subway!), and the odd difficult move forward (the St. Clair ROW). We've also seen the creation of the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority, but since no one seems......

Several major GTA transit projects have been sitting in limbo awaiting federal funding for so long that if you weren't directly involved you might have forgotten they were ever announced. Now everybody can all breathe a sigh of relief: an election is in the wind and Stephen Harper is going on a spending spree. The biggest giftee is the $2 billion project that will extend the Spadina Subway up to York University and beyond into......

Gas shortages continue to plague Ontario and Quebec and it isn't getting better anytime soon. Hybrid owners laugh manically as the world slowly crumbles around them. Mad Max-style mayhem ensues. Mayor David Miller unveiled his plan to bring a one-cent share of the GST to Toronto. Miller's secret weapon? Green-coloured buttons and posters. Predictably, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty responded with a resounding "no way man." Sources close to the Mayor say he will counter with......

Robert William Pickton's murder trial begins today. Now, Torontoist believes firmly in every man's right to be deemed inoocent before proven guilty and hopes Pickton gets a fair and impartial trial. That having been said...doesn't the guy look like a serial killer? If you were casting a movie and had a role named "Mangy Serial Killer," would this guy not instantly get a callback after his audition based on looks alone? The Tories have announced......

Elizabeth May, the newly chosen leader of the federal Green party, is currently riding the rails across Canada from Vancouver to Ottawa. May was scheduled to stop in Toronto yesterday evening, where the public was invited to meet and greet with her outside Union Station. Traveling by train is a fitting and symbolic choice for an environmental leader, since trains are one of the best alternatives to cars for transportation. Investment in all forms of......

The TTC is apparently losing about a bus a day to repairs and safety issues. Many of the buses are around 18 years old and nearing the end of their lifecycle. By next year the TTC will lose around 320 buses, more than five a week. Toronto, York Region, and Provincial officials are lobbying Ottawa to pony up money for the York U subway extension. Many of them complain about the lack of help the......

Usually there isn't much that happens on a sleepy stretch of Centre Street, just north of the city in Thornhill. It's a pretty typical suburban stretch between the Promenade Mall and, well, not much else. But this week it's been hopping! First of all, there was a good ol' fashioned carjacking on Thursday night. Just your run-of-the-mill post-ATM visit from the local thieves. This enterprising suspect brought both a gun AND a metal stick to......

Last month I wrote many nice things about VIVA. Last week, after missing the GO Bus from Markham to Toronto by seconds, I decided that it was a good opportunity to take an impromptu test ride on VIVA. I feel as though I may have been taken a little (not a lot) by the initial VIVA hype. Here's my reaction after trying the system out: Travelling on a Friday at noon, I caught my......

Earlier this week, York Region launched its new rapid transit service: VIVA. Although a VIVA vehicle looks like a bus, sounds like a bus and even sort of feels like a bus, they’re marketing it as the unbus, to trick car drivers who would otherwise feel shame riding in the common people’s chariot. But they have a good excuse as the VIVA bus service is so much more than the bus service we’re used......