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By Shawn Micallef

  • Is it cute multiculturalism or scary hooliganism?

    A few of us have been complaining about the World Cup celebrations going on around Toronto. Quietly, to ourselves, not wanting to be the inevitable...

  • Thunder Bay Discussion

    The Wire post is two months old, but there’s a fairly active discussion going on about Toronto’s obligation, or lack of, to buy subway trains...

  • Deer Herd coming to Toronto (herd needed)

    As a part of WADE 2006, Montreal artist Hazel Meyer and her project DEERHEADS are coming to Toronto, July 8th & 9th. DEERHEADS is a participatory...

  • Amnesty International Bus Shelter Ads

    An interesting series of ads for Amnesty International (via singer.to). They seem to have taken pictures of the background, did some photoshop, and...

  • Slow Road Movement

    In today’s NYTimes magazine there’s a nice article on the US Interstate system. It’s 50 years old, and is in need of a re-think while...

  • Spirit of ’76: CN Tower is old, but still very sexy

    This week in the Airstream I recorded a fellow who was a teen back in ’76 living in an apartment around Eglinton and Weston. He remembered watching...

  • People Walking 2006

    Walking down Bloor on Saturday night after seeing A Prairie Home Companion at the Cumberland (go see this wonderful movie, Meryl Streep can totally sing)...

  • Galloway

    Today we’ve been hopping around Scarborough. First, at 7:30AM we were at a Pow Wow at Galloway Park, in the Kingston Galloway neighbourhood...

  • Bike Riding at Jane and Finch

    The American screenwriter Marc Norman once wrote an essay called Bike Riding in Los Angeles and how weird that is. I suspect it’s not unlike bike...

  • MTA vs. TTC

    Torontonian Ivor Tossell was recently in New York City and took this picture of an MTA window display on 5th Avenue. Like, the main big money part of 5th...

  • Albion Skyline

    We’ve watched the day pass by from the parking lot of the Albion Centre. A group of about 100 birds, mostly seagulls, have been pecking at the...

  • Final City Idol tonight

    Toronto & East York Final Event! Six candidates will try their best. Only one will become a City Idol! The winner will run for City Council in the...