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Name and shame

Late last month, council once again decided to launch a fool’s errand to investigate selling the naming rights to subway stations. We’ll resist the impulse to enumerate for the eleventy-billionth time why, for symbolic reasons alone, auctioning off the names of civic spaces to the highest bidders is a recipe for shame.

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Striking our fuse

We try to be sympathetic to TTC workers, we really do. Even if they do collectively (alongside management) provide consistently mediocre customer service, there are worse sets of employees you ...

Expressing ourselves

Earlier this week, Canadians were treated to the spectacle of a minister of the crown engaging a Hollywood film director in a public relations debate about policy.

The national community

The sleepy frequencies of CBC Radio 2 aren’t the first thing you’d associate with heat, but the station’s brass are currently catching a lot of it for their plan to scale back their programming of...

He’s an asshole. Duh

Last week, our cover package took a brief look at the growing “seduction community” of men who take advice from various self-proclaimed gurus on how to score with women. The main feature was a “Portrait of a pickup ...

Strike one option out

Though the strike deadline for TTC employees passed on April 1, we were encouraged to hear that the union and management planned to keep negotiating for at least a week beyond that, and that the union has committed ...

These City Walls

What does Toronto look and feel like? Unlike in New York (tall, busy) or Paris (Parisian) the question here doesn’t inspire an immediate answer. Like its population, Toronto is a patchwork of styles and cultures and...

Toronto the good

We’re thankful to Maneesh Mohindra of the blog Torontoist for drawing our attention to a ranking of the most dangerous cities in Canada in the most recent issue of Maclean’s. The magazine tracked numbers from the ...

Sands through the hourglass

One thing to say about the new regulations of oil sands development reported in The Globe and Mail March 9: finally Ottawa is talking about the problem.

The Red, White and Blues

As we’ve written before, we’re so happy for our neighbours to the south (and for us in the rest of the world) that their long national nightmare will soon end. This November, the worst president in at least 100 years ...

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