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When my mom told me at about 10am this morning that the TTC was on strike, I didn't believe her. Firstly, it seemed like a pretty good deal, so why would the union reject the offer on the table? Secondly, the TTC union promised 48 hours notice before striking, and
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Five years ago yesterday, while we were in Toronto were in the clutches of a near pandemic, I wrote this entry about SARS. SARS Update: From the eye of the stormThe
The TTC has agreed to study the feasibility of selling corporate naming rights to subway stations as a way to raise money. The controversial request for a study of practices in other cities came from commissioner Peter Milczyn, who cited an ad from the Middle East city of Dubai inviting
Torontonians, it's officially complain-about-the-heat season. After a lengthy complain-about-the-cold-and-snow season, it's nice to completely skip the comfy season and dive right into our annual complain-about-the-heat season. How hot has it been this weekend? It's only April 20th and I've already taken the ice scraper out of the car and thrown
YouTube user WNED17 recently uploaded some fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips have brought back a tonne of memories for me, so I'm going to feature them one by one over the next few weeks. Dar Robinson was a film stuntman who enjoyed breaking world records. In 1980, he set a
Our city is heavily promoting the fifth annual 20-Minute Toronto Makeover. Mayor David Miller is asking all Torontonians at work, school or at home to stop what you’re doing on Friday, April 18, 2008, come outside at 2:00pm and do a 20-minute clean-up blitz around our office, school
I'm just checking my RSS feeds now, so I only just learnt that I'm emblematic of what’s wrong with Toronto. In fact, according to this entry from my pal Freddie P., I'm why Toronto has no chance. Here's a sample of what you'll find at torontomike.com this morning.
Stop the presses. There's late-breaking news from Toronto's City Hall. Rob Ford took offence to something he thought Globe & Mail reporter John Barber said. Apparently, and it's hard to tell from this video, not that it justifies another embarrassing Ford outburst, John Barber called Rob Ford a "fat f*
Here are a few shots of Toronto during Earth Hour last night. Just before 9pm, the meter at the Toronto Hydro control centre hit a low of 2,738 megawatts - 5 per cent below the demand an hour earlier and about 8.7 per cent less than a typical
Ajax Mike tipped me off that the new Incredible Hulk trailer prominently features Yonge Street during the fight sequences. You can't miss that Sam the Record Man sign.
Go figure, Toronto is merely #26 on a list of the 100 most dangerous cities in Canada. To assemble the rankings of the most dangerous and safest cities, Maclean's magazine used 2006 crime data from the Canadian Centre of Justice Statistics. The magazine then calculated the percentage difference from the
We've been warned. With 7° temps Thursday and Friday, all this snow is going to melt and that could mean flooding in the streets of Toronto. I need this big melt. Raging Storm, my champion slo-pitch team, has registered to play a tournament on March 22nd. That gives Mother Nature
This 1954 footage from the CBC is making the rounds. If you know the TTC subway system, you'll get a kick out of this. Toronto's got itself a subway!
I've been exchanging emails with Quincy from Allied Advertising. Quincy is promoting the grand opening of AMC Yonge & Dundas 24 in the Toronto Life Square. This new state-of-the-art theatre is the first all-digital theatre in the area and it will be open to the public on March 28. All
The record snowfall for a Toronto winter, since we started measuring such things, was 1938-39 when 207.3 centimetres fell. You remember the winter of 1938-39, don't ya? 69 years later, we're going to smash that record. As of 8pm last night we were sitting at 195.2 centimetres. I
Throughout the day, I made four trips outdoors to shovel this snow. It's coming down so hard right now, I'm just going to leave it for the night and get it all tomorrow morning. I'm not complaining about all this snow, I actually don't mind shovelling, I'm just impressed by
Rob Ford is simply too easy a target, and posting his dumb-ass quotes just isn't as much fun as it should be. If you Google rob ford quotes, this entry I posted about two years ago is #2. Then, a year ago this week, I posted his fantastic quote about
Uncle! I give up. It's relentless. Since my shovel broke from being abused all winter long, Mother Nature hammered us again and I almost broke my back trying to clear all that snow without a damn handle on my shovel. The crack in the base I can manage, but you
There's nothing I like better then waking up at 7am on my Saturday so I can press the F5 key on my laptop hundreds and hundreds of times. Today is the Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation registration day for spring and summer 2008, so hundreds of parents like myself had
I rarely write about ad campaigns but this Obay marketing effort has me intrigued. Ads have popped up all over Toronto promoting an obviously fictional drug called Obay. They're everywhere and I have no idea what they're for. One ad shows a father and son with the caption "My son
YouTube user WNED17 recently uploaded some fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips have brought back a tonne of memories for me, so I'm going to feature them one by one over the next few weeks. If you grew up in Toronto, you were told CityTV is Everywhere. I don't know if
YouTube user WNED17 recently uploaded some fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips have brought back a tonne of memories for me, so I'm going to feature them one by one over the next few weeks. This is an ad for the TTC from 1984. I remember this song well. Does the
I had a pretty good idea, but no time to execute. I wanted to create Toronto-centric Valentine's Day cards featuring local prominent figures, past and present. Here are a few quickies I threw together. If anyone else wants to take this torch and run with it, we still have 7.
If you're reading this from the GTA, you know how damn cold it's been these past few days. How cold is it? They actually cancelled Beavers toboggan night. When it's too cold to toboggan, it's too cold. It looks like this chill is about to subside. We're supposed to hit
In addition to a $105 towing charge, I recently got a $60 parking ticket. I thought I'd go down to 55 John Street and put up a bit of a fuss. As I waited in line at Metro Hall I realized I'd have gladly paid $60 to be anywhere else,
