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Sam’s Sign is Still in the Dark
The future of Sam The Record Man signs gets dimmer by the day.Photo by {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfredng/727568625/"}alfred ng{/a}, from the {a...
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Toronto Urban Legends: Tunnel Visions
Is there really a tunnel leading from Fort York to the Wheat Sheaf Tavern?The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. The Wheat Sheaf Tavern has been a favorite watering hole since 1849. {a...
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Toronto Urban Legends: Cherry Beach Express
Is there any truth to the stories about police using Cherry Beach as a place to rough up perps?The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. For decades, visitors have come to Cherry Beach to...
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Toronto Urban Legends: Jumping Into Infamy
Did a steelworker really parachute from the CN Tower?The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. Photo by {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/phillykevflicks/183947496/"}kchbrown{/a} from...
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Toronto Urban Legends: A High Park Imponderable
Is Grenadier Pond named for British grenadiers who drowned there during the War of 1812? Or is there a more likely explanation?The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. Photo by {a...
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Toronto Urban Legends: Is Tim Hortons Spiking the Brew?
Is there any truth to persistent rumours about Tim Hortons adding nicotine to its coffee?The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. Photo by Jason Michael, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool....
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A Look Inside Toronto’s Police Dog Academy
44 Beechwood Drive is an elite police academy, but all the recruits are four-legged and furry. A warning sign on the gate in the driveway indicating the presence of police dogs doesn’t quite provide a...
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Toronto Urban Legends: Queen’s Quay Whale Relic’s Origin Remains Murky
The truth behind a Lake Ontario whale vertebra is not what you've been told. The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. Rosalia Bambo and son, Santiago, observing the whale vertebra at the...
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Toronto Urban Legends: For Whom The Curfew Bell Tolls
Sounding the bell on a little-known piece of legislation.The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. Photo by photocrastinating, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. More often than not, when...
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Hidden Toronto Shows Off the Spread of Suburban Graffiti, After Rob Ford
A new book offers readers a treasure trove of photos of suburban graffiti. If your exposure to Toronto graffiti is limited to walls in Kensington Market or rooftops along Queen Street West, Kathy...
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Toronto Urban Legends: Raymond Moriyama Makes His Mark on the Ontario Science...
Did celebrated architect Raymond Moriyama leave his signature on the Ontario Science Centre in more ways than one?The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. In 1964, when Raymond Moriyama...
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Toronto Urban Legends: Len Koenecke’s Flight into Infamy
The circumstances surrounding outfielder Len Koenecke’s death in the skies above Toronto seem almost too crazy to be true.The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. Photo by fotograf.416,...
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For Some, Much-Maligned Hotel Waverley is Home
Toronto's most disparaged hotel may soon be torn down by a developer. Here's a tour. When news broke recently that Hotel Waverley’s owner, The Wynn Group, plans to raze the building and replace it and...
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Paint by Bullets
An unlikely marriage of mediums has brought us this portrait of Rob Ford.Viktor Mitic’s portrait of Mayor Ford. Unless you’re artist Viktor Mitic, you don’t usually equate discharging a semi-automatic...
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Encapsulating Toronto’s Past
A look at time capsules across the city—and what's in them.The Ontario Legislative Building is home to one of Toronto’s many time capsules. Photo by Alfred Ng from the Torontoist Flickr pool. Email,...
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Weegee: The Original Nightcrawler
Murder was his business and business was brisk In the 2014 film Nightcrawler, a seasoned news director tells newbie freelance videographer Louis Bloom, “Think of our newscast as a screaming woman...
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The Old Cabbagetown Tree Lot
A look at the old neighbourhood institution, and the people who make it happen.The Old Cabbagetown Tree Lot. In 1952 Louis St. Laurent was PM, Toronto got its first television station, Leafs games...
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2015 Hero: Elton McDonald
Nominated for: digging a mystery tunnel to our hearts. Torontoist is reflecting on 2015 by naming our Heroes and Villains—the people, places, things, and ideas that have had the most positive and...
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