Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion has a third arm.  That must be the case or this picture of her and her son Peter was Photoshopped, and the Toronto Star wouldn't do such a thing. If you click over to that same article now, you'll see the Toronto Star has cropped the

A couple of days ago, Google's Street View for the GTA went live.  Horonymous left a comment on that entry with a link to the burning van. This is definitely the best Toronto street view I've seen.  If you can link to a better one, drop it in the comments.

Ho-Lee-Chow has locked their doors, taken their website offline and left this message on their answering machine. Due to circumstances beyond our control, one of which is the poor economic climate, another of which is a refusal to compromise on the quality and service you have come to appreciate,  Ho-Lee-Chow

Torontonians can now check out their streets, homes and neighbourhoods on Google Street View.  Yes folks, all that footage we saw being taken by the Google cars has gone live. I've been to Google Maps this morning just to check this out.  It's pretty slick.  Below is the northeast corner

It turns out David Miller won't be mayor of Toronto forever.  He's not running next year. I'm announcing this morning that I will not be seeking a third term as mayor of Toronto in next year's municipal election. While it's been a difficult decision, I feel secure in my priorities,

It seems our CN Tower will retain its place in the Guinness Book of World Records, with a little edit to the record.  It's no longer the world's tallest free-standing structure, it's now the world's tallest tower. The tower lost the title of the world's tallest free-standing structure in 2007

There's been quite the discussion in the comments since I first wrote about Darcy Allan Sheppard's death.  I got an email from Donald Wiedman who wanted me to review the surveillance footage from Bloor street that fateful day. Please take a look at the below YouTube video (surveillance camera footage)

Coors Light is running a localized marketing campaign in British Columbia poking fun at Torontonians.  The billboard campaign proudly declares the beer is "Colder Than Most People From Toronto." Here's the ad: I get that the rest of Canada is united in their dislike of Toronto.  When that guy was

24-hours after the best thunder and lightning storm I can remember, I'm ready to write about it.  I did tweet it in real-time, but a storm like that is worthy of a proper entry. Two things struck me about last night's storm.  Firstly, you couldn't count to three without a

There's been a breakthrough with regards to our 36-day-old civic workers strike. A weekend of intense bargaining has produced "the basis for a deal" that could bring a swift end the strike by municipal workers in Canada's largest city.At an early morning news conference, CUPE Local 416 president Mark

Courtney doesn't have her own blog, so I'm lending her mine for the next 1000 pixels or so.  She has something she wants to share and I think it's important enough that I'm posting her words on her behalf. Here's what Courtney wrote: The Right to Strike or The Right

Firstly, I want Chuck to take note of how I'm now calling this a Toronto civic workers strike, not a garbage strike.  It's not just our garbage men and women who are on strike, it's a whole bunch of other city folk as well. Happy now, Chuck? Having said that,

I've spent a lot of time in the Junction.  The Junction, for you out-of-towners, is an area north of Bloor West Village by Dundas Street West and Keele.  To be honest, when I was growing up, it was the smelly place thanks to the Stockyards, Canada's largest livestock market and

I wrote about our garbage strike on day one and again when the city decided to make my favourite park a temporary dump, but for the most part I've been quiet on the subject. I've discovered the best way to deal with Toronto garbage strike.  I've sent my wife and

Have you heard Toronto's garbage peeps are on strike?  I'll bet you have.  We're only a few days into this thing and already everyone is bitchin' and complainin'.  Premature panic is what we do best. Toronto has unveiled 19 new temporary garbage drop-off locations that residents can use as dumping

I remember an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where there was a garbage strike in Cincinnati during a hot summer and Dr. Johnny Fever told his listeners to take their garbage down to City Hall.  We're being asked not to do that. 24,000 City of Toronto workers are now

A lot's been said about the Skydome turning 20 this week.  I still have my Domer turtle from that opening ceremony somewhere.  I didn't attend the opening, but a friend of the family did and gave us Domer. I caught two Jays games during the first week of games at

Earth Hour 2009 made for some nice photos at The Big Picture. Here's the skyline of downtown Toronto before and after Earth Hour on Saturday, March 28, 2009. Before After