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Find out which city councillors are Facebook and Twitter junkies
A screen shot of Paul Ainslie’s top-scoring Facebook page In the spirit of both June and council report cards, Campaign School, a project from the Academy of the Impossible, evaluated city councillors...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 29, because we inspired a 21st-Century...
By Denise Balkissoon It all began in the winter of 2011, when a cop named Michael Sanguinetti told a group of York University students that in order for women to prevent harassment and rape they should...
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The following shops are open until midnight tonight, should you want to shop...
Plaid magazine has teamed with the new app Found Riches to throw the late-night shopping event West End Riches, in which participating boutiques will stay open until midnight with great discounts on...
View ArticleThose Research in Motion sale rumours aren’t going away
Research In Motion has been hit with yet another round of rumours about a sale. The Sunday Times of London alleges—without citing any sources—that the BlackBerry maker is thinking of splitting itself...
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Jesse Brown: Shouldn’t we be more concerned about our privacy?
Every trip to the mall, every phone call, every email can be stored and potentially used against us in the future By Jesse Brown | Illustration by John Ritter What’s your privacy worth? According to a...
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Kraft’s Pride Oreo spurs stupid people to go cuckoo bananas (including calls...
(Image: Kraft Facebook) Apparently, Rob Ford isn’t the only round thing with a mushy white middle stirring up controversy around Pride Week this year. Kraft, maker of the Oreo cookie, inadvertently...
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VIDEOS: our favourite Toronto-made commercials from this year’s Cannes Lions...
The red carpet at last year’s Cannes Lions festival (Image: Digitas Photos The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is an annual pat on the back for the advertising and PR industries,...
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Everyone seems to think that Calgary is awesome—and Toronto is not
The centre of the universe seems to have shifted westward recently, with a spate of notables, articles and polls suggesting that Calgary, not Toronto, is the place to be. This latest round in the...
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QUOTED: Toronto Police beg Rob Ford to hire a chauffeur
(Image: Twitter) On behalf of all the citizens of Toronto that value road safety, Mr Mayor… please get a driver. —Sergeant Tim Burrows of the Toronto Police, asking Rob Ford to relinquish the driver’s...
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An Ontarian’s cute dragon drawing makes him Internet-famous (and nets him a...
In May, a self-professed Samsung fanatic from London, Ontario, named Shane Bennett fired off a message to Samsung Canada’s Facebook account, politely asking if they’d give him the then still unreleased...
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The Argument: Why Frida Kahlo is the patron saint of Internet–enabled narcissism
By Stephen Marche (Image: The Broken Column courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario) On September 17, 1925, Frida Kahlo, then an 18-year-old aspiring medical student, was riding a bus in Mexico City...
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We launch our new commenting system—now comments are easier to make and...
Late last week, we launched Disqus, a discussion platform for our blog posts that will make it even easier for you to weigh in with your opinions on our articles. You can still post comments using an...
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Giorgio Mammoliti’s most memorable gaffes, including the one that could end...
Although Giorgio Mammoliti leapt from Rob Ford’s lurching bandwagon in November, the two city hall fixtures still have a lot in common. Messy campaign finances, for instance. According to an audit...
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GALLERY: 10 endearingly awkward photos of Rob Ford
Vice published a mock-scathing indictment of Rob Ford’s Facebook photos yesterday, and the collection of terrible pics drove home three truths about Toronto’s mayor: (1) he gamely shows up to a lot of...
View ArticleFormer mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson alleges Rob Ford touched her...
Sarah Thomson says that Rob Ford made a lewd comment at a function at the Arcadian Court last night. She posted an image on Facebook with a caption early this morning that reads: Thought it was a...
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Olivia Chow leads the race…in deletions of hateful Facebook comments
Olivia Chow’s Facebook page, as it appeared earlier today. Olivia Chow has taken an early lead in at least one aspect of the 2014 mayoral election: according to the Star, she has deleted far more...
View ArticleOlivia Chow absorbs a ridiculous amount of Facebook hate
1,756 —The number of “racist, sexist and other offensive posts” removed from the Olivia Chow campaign’s Facebook page since March 13, according to an investigation by the Star. The same investigation...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I apologize to my girlfriend for being naked on...
"In a drunken stupor, I recorded it and sent the video to a few buddies"
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Dead opossums, and other strange things you could be swapping on Bunz Trading...
Some of the weirdest trades from Toronto's semi-secret online bartering group
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