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The Sufferettes (Kayla Lorette and Becky Johnson) do comedy for ghosts at the Festival of New Formats on Thursday, and comedy for people on Saturday. Detail of a photo by Kristina Laukkanen.
Keep reading: What To Do in Toronto January 3-8: Next Stage, New Formats, Class of 2017
But hundreds of thousands of TTC riders still don't use smart phones.
Photo by Scott Snider from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
In order to save $400,000 the TTC will no longer replace printed bus and streetcar schedules at stops throughout the city.
The cost-saving move comes amid a TTC budget shortfall that comprises a large chunk of council’s current 2017 budget deficit. But, as the Toronto Star reported, the change has been criticized as a move away from an accessible TTC.
Keep reading: The TTC Is Cutting Printed Schedules to Save 0.02 Per Cent on Their Budget
But hundreds of thousands of TTC riders still don't use smart phones.
It’s the first day of work in the new year for many people, but things are already going wrong at the Toronto Star. Somehow, an errant S turned what would have been a perfectly acceptable deck into, well, something else. The Star‘s public editor Kathy English acknowledged the error on Twitter Tuesday morning, calling it an “unfortunate production mistake.”
Just three days into 2017, this incident looks like a strong contender for media blunder of the year. But it’s far from the first time errors have made it to print—and it won’t be the last. For the sake of some perspective, here are a few past screw-ups and print controversies from Toronto-area media.
Keep reading: Six Times Toronto-area Newspapers Screwed Up in Really Embarrassing Ways
It's a new year for the battle of the Toronto dailies, and the competitors are coming out swinging.
A list of New Year's resolutions to make everyone's transit experience better
How Toronto said goodbye to 1966, hello to 1967.
The very worst Toronto people, places, things, and ideas of 2016.
The people, places, things, and ideas that made our city a better place in 2016.
Toronto was connected to the outside world for the first time 170 years ago this week.
We'll be back to our regular post-holiday publishing schedule on January 3.
With structural budget problems, the City cannot solve its challenges through efficiencies alone.
A chaos-loving squirrel writes an op-ed that explains everything that goes bad in Toronto.
A handful of schools are being repaired with capital-projects funding.
It's been a great 2016 for beer in Toronto, but what will 2017 hold?
A retrospective of the last five and a half years.
Let's be a bit more like this panda.
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