Communication
Misleading Leaside: Lobbyists score a hat trick with digital billboard
By Dave Meslin
Outfront Media wants to construct a massive digital billboard in the residential community of Leaside. The problem is, no one wants... Read More
How Toronto invented the PC, then forgot about it
By Chris Bateman
The Royal York Hotel, September 25, 1973. Computer experts Mers Kutt, Gordon Ramer, Ted Edwards, and Reg Rea are standing around a... Read More
Welcome to your private nuclear fallout shelter
By Chris Bateman
In 1959, the builders of Regency Acres, a 700-home subdivision in Aurora, Ontario, offered something no other homebuilder in the... Read More
Storymobile is telling Canada’s Main Street stories from Mimico to the Maritimes
By Daniel Rotsztain
If you’ve travelled through Mimico – a waterfront neighbourhood in Toronto’s west end – during the last few months... Read More
MESLIN: The myth of the five-week election
By Dave Meslin
As the dust settles from the 2014 municipal election and political commentators begin to reflect on what happened, two common themes... Read More
Meet Bertie the Brain, the world’s first arcade game, built in Toronto
By Chris Bateman
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: Lisa Baroldi and inclusivity in cities
By Nxt City Prize
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
MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 1
By Dave Meslin
Bathurst and Davenport cross each other just below the steep shoreline of ancient Lake Iroquois. The intersection is lush with... Read More
EVENT: Education & Justice in Toronto
By Dale Duncan
The final event of the Justice in Toronto lecture series takes place tomorrow at 230 College Street. This free evening lecture will... Read More
La Ville Reine — The French underground is all around us in Toronto
By Daniel Rotsztain
Last week I was driving along College enjoying a jazzy groove on 90.3 FM Espace Musique. When the song ended and the hosts returned to... Read More