Hey, Canada, guess what day tomorrow is? It’s the day we can vote to kick the dumbass BushLite™ Conservatives of Stephen Harper out of Ottawa, that’s what day it is.
But the only way we can do it is if we vote strategically. Go to Vote for Environment to check out the latest poll data to see [...]

West of Downtown Toronto, 6:45PM, 2 October 2008

File under Department of Redundancy Department.

From The Toronto Star:
A student agenda distributed to 294 public schools in Toronto alone has a serious “grammer” error.
The heading atop page 136 in the junior edition of the agenda – sold to students in Grades 4, 5 and 6 across the Toronto District School Board for about $5 – is “Grammer/Punctuation.”
Was I not just [...]

I often wonder what happens when an advertiser’s design comes back from the printer and it’s pretty fucking obvious that someone along the route from inception to production screwed up and screwed up big time. Actually, I don’t wonder, because I’m occasionally unfortunate enough to experience it first-hand.
“So, tell me, what does this say to [...]

Inside Serra’s Spheres, 9 PM, 11 September 2008
There’s a lot wrong with Toronto’s Pearson International Airport — no fucking rail service, no decent eateries, a high-speed sidewalk which has never worked and a complete disregard for the shopping experience of travelers confined to a terminal for hours (thanks to planned pre-flight requirements and unplanned [...]

Battlestar Galactica’s Grace “Boomer/Athena” Park
Bay & Bloor, Toronto, 9PM, 6 September 2008

The Daily Show’s Jason Jones (holding taxi door for Samantha Bee)
Bay & Bloor, Toronto, 9PM, 6 September 2008
So, yeah, the Toronto International Film Festival is on now, in case it wasn’t plainly apparent. This is the only time of year in which my neighbourhood [...]

Toronto Transit Commission unveiled a new “Next Train Arrival” signage system today on our subways. High school student TTC Chair Adam Giambrone finds the new signage extremely helpful in ascertaining whether the train is in the station:

Adam, dude, turn around.
(Photo courtesy blogTO)

This is not the end of summer.

Hanlan’s Point Postcard (1 September 2008)

Against the Grains

South of Hanlan’s Point (31 August 2008)
So the last two days of August in Toronto were the sort of summer days we used to have in this city — hot, sunny, gorgeous. Three words, by the way, which also could describe the latest crop of beachgoers at Hanlan’s Point. There’s been a resurgence of interest [...]

Toronto, 31 August 2008, 8AM

So today Toronto joins the world-class ranks of Tokyo, Denver and London (Ontario) by installing a “scramble” intersection at the corner of Yonge and Dundas Streets in the heart of the city’s downtown. Up to 100,000 pedestrians a day pass through this intersection and, as with most intersections in the city, drivers at Yonge & [...]

From Errol Morris’ The Thin Blue Line, 1988

Mississaugua, Ontario, 24 August 2008

Hanlan’s Point Ferry Dock, Toronto, 4:30PM, 23 August 2008

Toronto West, 8PM, 22 August 2008
Wig
B-52’s (from Bouncing Off the Satellites)
What’s that on your head?
A wig
Wig, wig, wig
Sally’s gotta wig
Ricky’s gotta wig
Baby’s gotta wig
Kate’s gotta wig
Fred’s gotta cheap toupee
Keith’s gotta big bouffant on
We all got wigs, so let’s go!
CHORUS
On the neon, neon side of town
On the neon, neon side of town
Julia’s gotta wig
Phyllis has a [...]