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Made in Toronto film: Porch Stories premiers at the TIFF Lightbox Friday June 19
What: Porch Stories When: Friday June 19th — Thursday June 25th 6:45PM Tickets: Via the TIFF website Toronto is (in)famous for being the stand-in for other films about other cities but on Friday a...
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Book Review – Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable...
Author: Jared Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) Sometimes the strongest way to get a message across is through simplicity. When dealing with a topic as broad as a “sustainable world” it...
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BURALE: Why are we so reluctant to truly end carding?
In Toronto, it is now in vogue to be down with the cause that is Stop Carding Now. The media is on board, so are some prominent Torontonians — heck, even Mayor John Tory and the former chair of the...
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Archival film of the 1990 Toronto Pride celebration
Today at Noon the City of Toronto kicks off Pride Week by raising the rainbow flag at City Hall and to celebrate here is a new video of the 1990 Toronto Pride put together by James Leahy from his own...
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A tour of Queen & Spadina a hundred years ago
It has been nearly 200 years since the intersection of Queen & Spadina was born. When the two roads first met, Toronto still wasn’t even a city yet: it was the town of York, home to less than two...
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REID: Busting some myths about pedestrian collisions
Toronto Public Health published a report this week analyzing the police statistics for collisions where vehicles hit pedestrians and cyclists, Pedestrian and Cycling Safety in Toronto (PDF). The...
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The fall of Sir Henry Pellatt, king of Casa Loma
A carved marble fountain of child figures supporting a dolphin, a solid bronze buffalo head, and hundreds of champagne flutes, wine glasses, and ceramic dinnerware: almost everything in Casa Loma was...
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Gardiner East: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Megacity
On Thursday, June 11, Toronto City Council voted to maintain the Gardiner Expressway between Jarvis Street and the Don Valley Parkway, endorsing the “hybrid” option by a vote of 24-21. The previous...
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LORINC: Toronto’s connection to U.S. Supreme Court’s same sex marriage ruling
There’s a strange but compellingly human irony in that fact that last week’s momentous same-sex marriage ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court can be traced back to a relationship between two Ontario women...
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Unveiling the Bloor Viaduct’s Luminous Veil
At night, the Rosedale Ravine is dark. It’s so dark, in fact, that the Bloor Viaduct is just shapes overhead, cobwebby steel arches and thick square concrete supports. The thin steel wires reaching...
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SPACING: Celebrate release of summer issue & Jane Jacobs Prize winners
WHAT: Summer 2015 issue release party & Jane Jacobs Prize ceremony WHEN: Wed., July 15th, 7-11:30pm (ceremony runs from 7-8om) WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 344) / 1395 Lake Shore Blvd. W.,...
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Toronto’s rebel mayor and his pirate admiral
William Lyon Mackenzie ran for his life. His rebellion had failed. It was a disaster. His rebel army was crushed on Yonge Street. His headquarters at Montgomery’s Tavern were burned to the ground...
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The oldest bit of Toronto subway opened 50 years ago
50 years ago this week, a special gasoline-powered TTC subway car trundled east along an unfinished Bloor-Danforth line towards the maintenance yard at Greenwood Ave. The east-west subway was still a...
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Book Review From The Stacks: Cotton Worldwide
Authors: Hans Peter Jost, Christina Kleineidam (Lars Müller Publishers, 2009) Cotton Worldwide is an eye-opening portrait of the international cotton industry. Through writing and photography,...
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LORINC: Telling our story
Not for the first time, and certainly not the last, I came across a family of tourists in the subway the other day, trying to figure out how to get to Casa Loma — Toronto’s second best known landmark...
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Good Reads: Summer edition of the Friends of Fort York’s Fife and Drum...
The summer edition of the Friends of Fort York’s quarterly newsletter, Fife and Drum was released recently. It’s a busy time at the Fort this summer with the Pan Am Games’ Aboriginal Pavilion on site....
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WEDNESDAY: Celebrate release of summer issue & Jane Jacobs Prize winners
WHAT: Summer 2015 issue release party & Jane Jacobs Prize ceremony WHEN: Wed., July 15th, 7-11:30pm (Prize ceremony runs from 8-8:30pm) WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 344) / 1395 Lake Shore...
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Porch Parade
Summer is the time to get outdoors, and in the same spirit as the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park, the City of Vancouver has once again closed Robson between Hornby and Howe Streets...
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Book Review From The Stacks: Reservoir
Photos by Bas Princen, edited by Moritz Kung (Hatje Cantz, 2011) There is no unexplored territory left on this earth. Our species, and has touched, developed, flown over, or altered nearly every...
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Toronto’s small piece of a Wonder of the Ancient World
You’ll find him on the third floor of the Royal Ontario Museum. He’s tucked away in a quiet, easy-to-miss corner far at the back of a room filled with artifacts from Asia and the Middle East. He’s a...
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