Pride Month began with the raising of the Pride flag and Transgender Pride Flag at City Hall.
The annual Pride flag raising at City Hall on May 31 marks the start of Pride Month in Toronto, with plenty of celebrations to come. Keep reading: In Photos: The Pride Flag Raising at City Hall
Metro is emerging as the wokest paper in town.
In Front Page Challenge, Torontoist analyzes the best and worst of Toronto’s major dailies.
Toronto’s five daily newspapers continue to hone and develop their editorial identities this morning, in another hard-fought contest to win this week’s competition. But this column’s jury has noticed two examples of stylistic clichés this week amongst the competitors that cannot go unmentioned.
Keep reading: Front Page Challenge: Toronto’s Papers Get Caught Recycling
Editor-in-Chief David Hains bids farewell, and thanks for all the green bins.
After five years of contributing to and editing Torontoist, this is my last day as Editor-in-Chief.
Police officers tried to stop the witness filming the arrest.
Image via CityNews
A bystander-recorded video of Toronto police restraining and Tasering a man during an arrest also shows the witness being threatened by officers that his phone would be seized as evidence. The video, obtained by CityNews, also shows an officer telling the witness the man being arrested is “going to spit in your face, you’re going to get AIDS.”
The recording, shot on Tuesday at the corner of Dundas Street and Church Street, reportedly shows police arresting a man accused of assaulting a police officer.
The video raises issues about police conduct and what many are calling “HIV-phobic” comments — the virus that causes AIDS is not spread by saliva.
Canadians have the right to film or photograph police officers, as long as doing so doesn’t obstruct what the police are doing, something the bystander filming in this case repeatedly says he isn’t doing.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Police arrest and Taser suspect after female cop allegedly assaulted pic.twitter.com/3US7PNJzyg
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNews) January 24, 2017
Keep reading: Toronto Police Threaten Bystander Taking Video of an Arrest
The birds have reportedly returned to Toronto's west end.
Photo by Randy Barba from the Torontoist Flickr pool
Toronto Urban Forestry is reporting that bald eagles are back in Toronto—they’ve reportedly been spotted in the west end. While the City said this appearance comes after a 50-year absence, there were also reported sightings of a couple bald eagles in High Park in 2014. It’s too early to know if there are more birds this time around, or if they’re here to stay.
A new poll puts Tory at a 55 per cent approval rating.
The Toronto Sun is livid about Streep's Golden Globes remarks, and it shows.
It's a new year for the battle of the Toronto dailies, and the competitors are coming out swinging.
Who will win this week's Front Page Challenge?
From Toronto's Deadly Streets to electoral reform to the killing of a local doctor.
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In non-Trump news: Mike Bullard, laneway housing, and a spit take.
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