ArchiveNovember 2017

A new report calls for the “screening” of visitors and other enhanced security measures at Toronto City Hall. Here’s how I became a journalist covering Toronto city hall: I walked in. That’s all. There was no accreditation. There was no security screening. I needed no one’s permission. I joined no organizations and paid no fee. I was a Toronto resident who was concerned about the...

Commuters run towards a newly placed TTC stop at Bathurst and King St. As it stands now, even if they just hopped off for an errand, they'd need to pay two fares. Before I wrote my column last week on the King Street transit pilot, I rode the King streetcar from Jarvis Street to Bathurst Street. I got off my streetcar to take a few photos, have a few laughs and watch a police officer yell at...

Metro columnist Matt Elliott rode the King streetcar on the first day of the new transit-priority pilot and has some suggestions for making this work longterm. Board the King streetcar this morning and you might feel it: hope. It’s a strange feeling for us riders of the 504 King. Usually, the streetcar route is a hopeless slog. Unfair too. Each day, about 65,000 transit riders – King is the TTC’s...