Culture

The grim history of the Ku Klux Klan in Toronto

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Two men in hooded Ku Klux Klan uniforms flash Nazi salutes on a porch. Beside them, a woman with “white power” tattooed crudely across... Read More

Storymobile is telling Canada’s Main Street stories from Mimico to the Maritimes

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If you’ve travelled through Mimico – a waterfront neighbourhood in Toronto’s west end – during the last few months... Read More

Exploring the busy basements & makeshift markets of Regent Park with Civic Salon

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Basements are often unsung heroes of great cities. In new and old Regent Park the unseen basement hides both bottom-up and top-down... Read More

A guide to recognizing Toronto’s five saints

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Old Toronto was a city of saints. Their names were stitched into the fabric of the community by the first settlers from the British... Read More

Get Fortified: Grand opening of the Fort York Visitor Centre + fall 2014 issue of Fife and Drum

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Lots of Fort York news this week. First, the long-awaited visitors centre opens this Friday Sept 19 at 1:30PM. This is followed by a... Read More

Meet Bertie the Brain, the world’s first arcade game, built in Toronto

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Almost two decades before the first video game found its way into an arcade, the Canadian National Exhibition hosted a strange... Read More

NXT City Prize: Adil Dhalla creates happiness

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The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity... Read More

NXT City Prize: the creative placemaking of Tim Jones

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The NXT CITY PRIZE is all about vision to reimagine Toronto’s public spaces and inject a sense of energy, dynamism and reflexivity... Read More

Re-linking the Ravine

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Editor’s note: This is the sixth post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design... Read More