Environment Canada is calling it Snow-Mageddon.  Tomorrow morning Toronto will get 15cm and they're calling for another snow storm on Sunday. Isn't "Snowmageddon" a little dramatic?  15cm tomorrow and a bunch more on Sunday makes for crappy driving conditions, but we've been through so much worse.  Last winter, for example.

The high point in Toronto Sports probably happened in 1993.  There was a week there when Joe Carter touched 'em all to secure the Blue Jays' second consecutive World Series and the Leafs won 10 in a row to open their season.  If that was the high, this might just

It's not uncommon to see Toronto on the big screen, but usually we're playing Chicago or New York or some other American city.  Toronto Stories is an indie film that premiered at the 2008 TIFF and now has a one-week run at the Royal Cinema starting on December 12th.  The

As a primary school student here in Toronto, many a field trip was taken to the Young People's Theatre at 165 Front Street East.  I remember several of the plays I saw there, including The Story of Anne Frank, which has stuck with me to this day.  The Young People's

When I was driving an '85 Ford Escort in the mid-90s, I wouldn't fill up the tank if the price exceeded 50¢ a litre.  I'm not kidding.  I managed to drive this way for years and years. About six years ago, prices hit 80¢ a litre in these parts and

I'm about to do something I haven't done since I was in primary school.  I'm on my way to the CN tower. I'm playing host to a bunch of out-of-towners and taking them to the top of the CN Tower seemed like the thing to do.  I get to play

It was well over a year ago that I first wrote about Let's All Hate Toronto, a documentary that pokes fun at the fact all of Canada outside the GTA seems to dislike those of us in the capital of the universe. I loved the title, and I loved the

Let's take the pulse of Toronto's blogosphere.  I'm breaking blogs into three categories: best independent blog, best professional/media blog and best Toronto Mike blog.  That last one is a little biased, so we'll start with it. Here are five blogs I'd like to recognize because they're run by frequent

Spacing Toronto just tipped me off about this very cool time-lapse video of our new scramble intersection of Yonge and Dundas.  It's by Sam Javanrouh.

Toronto gets its first scramble intersection today as Yonge and Dundas is now scrambled.  That means vehicle traffic stops with red lights in all four directions, followed by a pedestrian free-for-all, where people cross the intersection in any direction they choose: left, right, diagonally. It's worked elsewhere and I think

The big local news is the propane gas plant explosion at Keele and Wilson.  Sunrise Propane, located just south of Downsview, sent massive fireballs into the sky just before dawn. At least one firefighter was killed fighting the blaze and thousands have been evacuated from their homes.  As Torontonians already

Chad wrote me with a good idea.  He thinks the Toronto Police should give the 2500 unclaimed backs back to Torontonians.  Specifically, to the less fortunate. Here's his plan in his words: Mike,I've been trying to work through an idea in my head for a while ... getting bikes into

Here in Toronto, we love our signs.  You can tear down our buildings, just don't mess with the signage. The CHUM building on Yonge Street, just south of St. Clair Ave., is going to be torn down and turned into luxury condos.  Fear not Torontonians, the iconic CHUM sign will

It looks like it's going to rain again today.  What a surprise. According to Environment Canada, 2008 has been one of the wettest summers ever in the Greater Toronto Area and it's only July. The agency said about 240 millimetres of rain has fallen since the beginning of last month.

It's Friday.  The weekend is upon us, Toronto.  It's time to bitch about the heat!

In April I wrote about SARS, five years later.  The spring of 2003 was a frightening one for me.  My son was only a year old and in daycare and there was so much we didn't know about this near pandemic that was taking lives in this city. My wife,

Toronto's public school board has approved an Africentric school in an empty wing of Sheppard Public School on Sheppard Ave. W. near Keele St.  The school will open in September 2009.  Canadian Thinker calls it "a sad day for Canada", but I don't think it's that simple. Here's what Canadian