June 6, 2016 at 4:30 pm

Richmond Hill Subway Could Be a Thing, Vaughan Subway Closer to Completion, and Capybaras Still on the Lam

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Photo by Cameron MacMaster from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

The Ontario government announced it will be providing $55 million in funding to Metrolinx for a Richmond Hill subway extension. “I think it’s really important in this region to both build for today, which we are doing, but also plan for tomorrow and that’s what this is all about,” Vaughan MPP and transportation minister Steven Del Duca told reporters. Apparently those plans involve bringing more commuters aboard to further overload the Yonge-University-Spadina line.

Keep reading: Richmond Hill Subway Could Be a Thing, Vaughan Subway Closer to Completion, and Capybaras Still on the Lam

Richmond Hill Subway Could Be a Thing, Vaughan Subway Closer to Completion, and Capybaras Still on the Lam

Every weekday's end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not to miss.

By Erica Lenti Jun 6th, 4:30 pm

June 6, 2016 at 2:00 pm

Queer History Onstage: Body Politic at Buddies in Bad Times

Playwright Nick Green on dramatizing the life and contentious times of Toronto’s trail-blazing gay-rights journal.

By Martin Morrow

Actors, left to right, Cole Alvis, Geordie Johnson, Diane Flacks, and Jonathan Seinen portray the founding collective of Toronto’s 1970s gay-liberation paper in Body Politic at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.

Body Politic
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander Street)
Runs to June 12
Tickets: PWYC – $37

Buddies in Bad Times has been hitting the history books this season. First there was the reprise of The Gay Heritage Project, then a visit from those 20th-century queer icons Stein and Toklas—Gertrude and Alice—and now the premiere of Body Politic.

Nick Green’s new play dramatizes the founding and watershed moments of one of Canada’s first major LGBTQ publications, The Body Politic, a monthly that emerged from Toronto’s burgeoning queer community in 1971 and weathered controversies and court cases before finally folding in 1987.

Keep reading: Queer History Onstage: Body Politic at Buddies in Bad Times

Queer History Onstage: Body Politic at Buddies in Bad Times

Playwright Nick Green on dramatizing the life and contentious times of Toronto’s trail-blazing gay-rights journal.

By Martin Morrow Jun 6th, 2:00 pm

June 6, 2016 at 1:00 pm

cityscape

How Toronto is Becoming a Smarter City

All the answers are in the data.

By Anders Marshall

Photo by Francisco Silva from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Think of the term “smart city,” and what comes to mind is a metropolis run from a liquid-cooled data centre in the bowels of an anonymous government building—a setting straight from a sci-fi flick.

While City Hall’s space-age design and appearance in Star Trek certainly plays along with the technological aspirations of smart cities, Toronto has focused on, perhaps less sexily, data collection.

And without these science-fiction aspirations, Toronto’s future as a smart city could weigh heaviest in the hands of its citizens—not on the muscle of supercomputers.

Keep reading: How Toronto is Becoming a Smarter City