Links To Things - Toronto

Toronto is located in Southern Ontario, on the shores of Lake Ontario. The last of the chain of great lakes. It is the capital of the province of Ontario, and the largest city in the country of Canada .

Toronto Area Weather Forecasts

• Intellicast
• Environment Canada Text Forecast
• Environment Canada Green Lane
• Environment Canada Weather Office
• Weather.com
• CBC
• Yahoo
• Sympatico
• Weather Underground
• The Weather Network
• Toronto Star
• CablePulse 24
• Global TV Weather
• CNN
• Accuweather
• WiredKingdom

Looking for more info ? Try these Canadian Search Engines !

• Maple Square
• Yahoo Canada
• Google Canada
• Canada.com
• AltaVista Canada
• Excite Canada
• Sympatico Lycos

Pictures and Web Cams

Skyline Web-Cam Yonge & Steeles Traffic Cam Live traffic Cams on the 401 Gardiner Expressway & DVP Traffic Cameras Toronto Star Web cams
Over 1000 Toronto Architectural Photos (Kenzington) Some nice photos here (lupic) Door Open - Historic buildings Megacity e-postcards

Toronto History

• A quick history lesson from the Ontario Government.
• Heritage Toronto
• West Toronto Junction Historical Society
• Early Toronto History
• Historical map of Toronto - 1898
• Fortune Magazine names Toronto the #1 International City (cause it is so safe) in November 1996.
  (Scroll down past the top US cities to get to International)

Neighbourhood Web Sites

• West Toronto Junction Business area (also the Junction Arts Festival)
• What's On Queen - Monthly guide to Queen Street
• St. Lawrence Market
• Cabbage Town
• The Beaches
• Toronto Islands
• Greek Danforth
  

Departments and Services

• Index of City Services
  • Garbage & Recycling    - NEW Garbage collection schedules Feb 2002
  • The Water Department deals with water conservation and treatment
• Police
• Fire
• Toronto Hydro
• Enbridge Consumers Gas
• Possibilities Project - Employment, Education and Training in Toronto

Maps of Toronto

• Virtual Toronto, a 3D VRML tour of Toronto!
• Large Black & White map (jpeg 1078x1553)
• Main Metro Roads
• Maps of cycling lanes
• Map of  Heritage Toronto Museums
• Expedia Map of  Toronto
• City Net map  (Gif Image)
• Also try MapQuest for a zoom-in map
• Various maps in PDF format
• Maps showing the Shopping Mall locations.
• City of Toronto, interactive map
• PATH the map of uderground downtown
• Show Me Toronto Clickable Map of selected downtown neighbourhoods
• Locations of Cell Phone Towers   in the GTA
• Former City of West Toronto (West Junction)
• Toronto Islands
• Simplified GTA maps
• Green Tourism Map
• Maps to Shopping Malls in Toronto
• University of Toronto - St. George Campus
• Historical map of Toronto - 1898
• Go Transit Map (and PDF)

Transportation

• Metro Cycling and Pedestrian Committee
• Cycling in Toronto
• Toronto Life Biking Guide
• Toronto Transit Commission (Subway, Street Cars, Buses, LRT)
  • TTC Home Page 
  • Navigate the TTC Subway
  • Subway Map in PDF format
  • Lower Queen and Lower Bay "Secret" subway stations
• GO Transit - GTA and area buses and trains (GO map in PDF format)
• Union Station
• Toronto Island Ferry Service

• Live traffic Cams on the 401 (COMPASS) and a second version from The Weather Network
• Gardiner Expressway & DVP Traffic Cameras
• The 407, Canada's first Pay per view highway, and the first highway with a home page on the internet ?
• Yonge & Steeles Traffic Cam
• myTO Traffic page

• The Pearson International Airport is here too, even though it is really in Mississauga, not Toronto.

Entertainment

Events

• Millenium Events
• Local Community Calendars
• a listing of Festivals in Toronto

Winter

• Autoshow - Feb 16-25, 2001 - Toronto Convention Centre
• Canadian Music Week - February 27 - March 3 2001

Spring

• Canadian Sportsmen's Show - March 9-17 2002
• Toronto Home Show - April 5 - 14 2002 - CNE National Trade Centre
• Spring Film Festivals April & May 2000
• We're Funny That Way Canada's International Gay and Lesbian Comedy and Music Festival May 2-5, 2001
• Doors Open - visit historic buildings in Toronto - May 26-27 2001

Summer

• Events Calendar  @ Ontario Place
• NXNE Music Festival - 7th Annual - June 7-9 2001 (See my review from 1998, 1997 & 1996)
• Lion Dance Festival June 7-9 2001
• Toronto Busker Fest - Nathan Philips Square June 14-17 2001
• Gay Pride Week June 18-24 2001  (see also - Gay Toronto)
• Dragon Boat Races June 22-24 2001 (on Centre Island)
• Downtown Toronto Jazz Fest June 22 - July 1 2001
• Fringe Festival - Live Theatre July 5-15 2001
• Molson Indy Car Race July 13-15 2001
• Scream in High Park - July 16 2001 - Spoken word festival
• Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition - Nathan Philips Square July 6-8 2001
• Comdex Canada Computer Show & Conference July 11-13 2001
• Beaches Jazz Festival July 26-29 2001
• Toronto Festival of Beer  @ old fort york, Aug 10-12 2001
• The CNE Canadian National Exhibition Aug 17-Sep 3 2001 (with Air Show Sep 1-3)

Fall

• Toronto International Film Festival Sept 6-15 2001
• The Junction Arts Festival Sept 14-16 2001
• The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair - Nov 2 - 11 2001
• The Santa Claus Parade - Nov 18 2001

• Computer Fest 4 computer sales a year
  

Live Music & Theatre

• Primordial Schmooze GigBot Gig listings
• Now Live Music Listings & Theatre Listings (Night & Day Menu)
• Eye's Toronto Listings Clubs, Shows, Events, Movies etc.
• Toronto.com Club Gigs this week
• Star CitySearch - Live Music

Clubs

• Lee's Palace - 529 Bloor St. W
• Phoenix Concert Theatre (other Liberty Clubs)
• El Mocombo - 464 Spadina Ave. (now Closed :-( )
• The 360 Club - 326 Queen St. W
• Rivoli - 332 Queen St. W
• The Horseshoe Tavern - 370 Queen St. W
• The Bovine Sex Club - 542 Queen St. W
• The Big Bop (the Kathedral, the Reverb and Holy Joe's) - 651 Queen St. W
• Healey's Jeff's new blues club - 178 Bathurst St.
• The Guvernment & Kool Haus (aka The Warehouse) - 132 Queens Quay East
• Hugh's Room - Folk - 2261 Dundas St. W near Roncesvalles
• Lula Lounge - Latin Dance & Live Bands - 1585 Dundas St. W (Between Dufferin & Landsdown)

Larger venues

• Harbourfront Centre
• Roy Thompson Hall
• Massey Hall
• Molson Amphitheatre booked by the House of Blues
• Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
• St. Lawrence Centre (Flash intesive site!)
• On Stage Now - The Royal Alexandra, and Princess of Wales theatres
• Toronto Centre for the Arts (in North York)

• Ticketmaster Toronto
• Star CitySearch - Theatre

Movies

• Toronto Movie Listings @ Eye
• First Run & Beyond @ Now
• Toronto.Com - Movies
• myTo Movies
• MovieTickets.com - buy tickets online for Famous Player's Theatres, listings only for others
• Moviefone
• Reg Hartt's Cineforum - Moments of Film history, that you will not find elsewhere.
• The Festival - Toronto has several repertoire movie theatres (a $6 membership gets you into 2nd run, classic, and unique screenings for a year. Members see films for $3.50 usually. There is a different movie at each screening, so why not stay for a double feature !). 
• The Bloor Cimema used to belong to the Festival group, but struck out on their own. The most famous of Toronto's repertoire cinemas
  506 Bloor Street W @ Bathurst
• Ontario Place (includes the Cinesphere and Molson Amphitheatre)
• I just gotta link the Internet Movie Database even if it has nothing to do with Toronto.

Harbourfront

• Harbourfront Centre
• Toronto Island Ferry Service Schedule
• Harbourfront Antique Market

City Guides and other links

• FYI Toronto - From CANOE, and the Toronto Sun, also a daily paper.
• myTO - from Telus
• TheMegacity.com - includes a business directory, and entertainment. They seem a little moose obsessed.
• Student's Guide to Toronto
• Rough Guide to Toronto
• Toronto Life Events Calendar
• Toronto Adventure and Recreation guide
• Toronto Info Directory - Great Site with many more links to more obscure Toronto items, as well as the sports teams.
• City.Net Toronto Page
• Destination Toronto
• Tourism Toronto From the Metro Toronto Convention and Visitors association (you can send E-mail postcards)
• TorInfo
• Show Me Toronto also has classified ads
• Toronto Wired
• UofT's Math department Toronto Page
• Star CitySearch (New and Big! from the Toronto Star. Their well publicized front door site is Toronto.com)
• Yahoo Canada - Toronto
• Sympatico's Around Toronto
• Celestica's Toronto Links
• Go shopping at the mall.
• Show me Toronto
• 4 Toronto Info
• Jacks Pics and Links (lupic) - great photos, and great links
• City of Toronto Links
• Toronto Green Tourism Association, with maps events, etc.

• Toronto at Night  - Currently offline, but may come back

Food and Drink

• TorDine - Search for restaurants in Toronto.
• Restaurant.ca
• Toronto Life Restaurant Guide
• Vegetarian Restaurants
• Now Restaurant Guide (Older page still available)
• Send Me Food - look up restaurants that deliver, no online ordering though.
• Toronto.Com Restaurants and Bars
• ShowMe Toronto, links to bars and restaurants with Web pages
• Toronto Bars - addresses, phone numbers and links
• Liberty Group restaurants

• Medieval Times - Eat like a King, with real horses (and get $5 off)
• The Old Mill
• Order groceries from Grocery Gateway

CyberCafés

• Electric Bean Yonge & Eglinton
• Cyberland Café 257 Yonge
• Insomnia Internet Bar/Café 563 Bloor St. W (@ Bathurst)
  
  
• The Daily Bread Food Bank Feed the hungry

Media

FM Radio

Most of these stations broadcast on RealAudio. You just have to go to the site to get the link.
Toronto Radio Waves, lists many more sites, and links to online listening

• CFNY 102.1 (AKA Edge102) listen all the time. - Alternative
• Q107 (also broadcasts in RealAudio) - Classic Rock
• Energy FM was at 107.9, now relocated to 95.3 FM
• Mix 99.9
• CHFI 98.1
• Chum FM (live in RealAudio) 104.5 FM
• CBC Radio (not all of CBC is in Toronto, but they built a big new building there (more...))
• Classical 96.3 CFMX
• Z103.5 - Hits FM
• Jazz FM 91.1

AM Radio

• 1050 Chum Oldies <-- Exists only on the Internet now. 1050 AM has become sports talk radio "The Team"
• 590 The Fan - more Sports talk radio on AM
• 680 News (used to be 680 CFTR, the AM Top 40 station)
• CFRB 1010 AM Talk radio (listen live in RealAudio)
• Mojo Radio - 640 AM (previously The Hog, and Talk 640) now talk radio for guys

  College Radio

• CKLN 88.1 FM Ryerson (broadcasts in RealAudio)
• CIUT 89.5 FM UofT college radio
• CHRY 105.5 York U

  Television

• CBLT channel 5 CBC Television
• TVO Public Television
• CITY TV 57
  • (also CityInteractive, MuchMusic, Much More Music, Space Station, CablePulse 24  & Bravo)
• CFTO channel 9. A Batton Broadcasting CTV affiliate. Their WebMania Sites are there, but not much else
• Global TV
• Roger's Cable TV. Channel lineups and web sites for Toronto, York & Parkdale/Etobicoke/Mississauga
• The Toob provides cable listings for Ontario.

  Newspapers & Magazines

  Dailies

• The Globe and Mail
• The National Post
• The Toronto Star
• The Toronto Sun

  Weeklies

• Eye Magazine
• Now Magazine
• The Villager - Bloor West Village community newspaper (Now Weekly !)
• Mirror-Guardian publishes several local papers, and includes local news Online

Monthlies

• !*@# Exclaim, The Alternative music paper
• Your Own Worst Enemy and Cygnals
• Access Magazine (Rock Radio Network fodder)
• Tribe Rave and dance oriented
• Spill the self proclaimed "Toronto's hippest underground music mag"
• Toronto Life Lifeline
• Where Toronto Traveller's Magazine
• Our Toronto Free Press
• Homes Magazine - New home builders in the Toronto area
• Exit

Computer Papers

• Toronto Computes
• The Computer Paper
• We Compute Paper (also the Original site)

Business

• The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE)

Museums, Zoos, Libraries and Galleries

• Royal Ontario Museum (the ROM)
• Art Gallery of Ontario (the AGO)
• Ontario Science Center
• Metro Toronto Zoo
• Black Creek Pioneer Village
• Museums operated by the Toronto Historical Board, inlcuding Old Fort York, Marine Museum, Colborne Lodge
• Museums run by the City of Toronto
• Casa Loma
• Public Art in Toronto
• A-Space
• Museum for Textiles
• Bata Shoe Museum
• Children's Own Museum - (in the old planatarium)
• Hockey Hall of Fame
• Toronto Public Libraries
• The Virtual Reference Library
• Toronto Reference Library
• North York Public Libraries
• Star CitySearch - Art Galleries & Museums

Environmental

• Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
• Metro Toronto Parks
• Centre for Landscape Research - with Humber river pictures, and satellite images
• Don River - Watershed Infrastructure and Ecology Program
• Green Community Groups
• Toronto Area Watersheds

Need a place to stay ?

• Star CitySearch - Places To Stay
• Tourism Toronto - Places to Stay
• Bed and Breakfast
• Hostels

Buildings with Homepages

• The Crossways is an apartment building, and mall at Dundas West and Bloor in Toronto.
• Maple Leaf Gardens (includes seating plan)
• Air Canada Centre (ACC)
• The CN Tower
• The SkyDome
• Union Station
• Metro Toronto Convention Centre
• National Trade Centre (at CNE)
• Liberty Grand in the CNE
• Metronome - not a building yet, but they are planning on turning the waterfront malting silos into a symphony hall
• BCE Place
• CBC Broadcast centre
• The Eaton's Centre
• Yorkdale Shopping Mall

Schools

• Centennial College includes Digital Animation and media lab
• George Brown College
• Humber College
• Seneca College
• York College of Information Technologies

• Ryerson Poytechnic University
• University of Toronto
• York University

• Jarvis Collegiate

• Toronto District School Board -
  • Formerly the Toronto Board of Education
  • Formerly the Board of Education for the City of York, with net based correspondence courses
  • Formerly East York Board of Education
  • Formerly Etobicoke Board of Education
  • Formerly Scarborough Board of Education
• Toronto Catholic District School Board
• In the summer of 2000 The school board removed 172 playgrounds, because it was cheaper to pull them down and replace them, than it was to repair them, except they didn't have enought money to replace them, just enough to remove them. And to top it all off, they probably weren't unsafe in the first place, they just didn't meet the new higher standards for building new ones. So now they are hoping enough people are willing to make a tax deductable donation at TorontoPlaygrounds.com so that the school playgrounds can be rebuilt. Maybe you can donate your Harris bribe money since it won't be spent on Healthcare or the Education system ?!?

Clubs

• Toronto Web Grrls - Women on the Web
• Digital Eve Toronto Chapter & Local site - More Women on the Web - Monthly E-zize WOWlife
• Toronto Internet Developers Association - TIDA
• Personal Computer Club of Toronto - PCCT
• Toronto Oracle Users Group - TOUG
• High Park Ski Club

Looking for God ?

• Anglican Parishes in Toronto.

Area Charities & Social Services

• United Way of Greater Toronto
• Children's Aid Society of  Toronto
• The Daily Bread Food Bank
• Second Harvest
• AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)
• AIDSWalk - Sept 24, 2000
• Toronto Hostpital HIV Clinic & Positive Times Newsletter
• Toronto Humane Society
• Etobicoke Humane Society
• Annex Cat Rescue
• Toronto Cat Rescue
• Big Brothers of Toronto
• Metro Network for Social Justice
• Epilepsy Toronto
• St. Stephen's Community House

Toronto Local Politics

Olympics ?

Some People thought that Toronto should host the Olympics in 2008 (see also TorontoSummerGames.com and the City Olympic Office). They may even clean up the lakefront before they bulldoze it. Bread not Circuses thinks it would be better to spend the money feeding the poor. (No Olympics for Toronto - Beijing for 2008)

MegaCity

In 1996 the provincial (PC/Harris) government decided that it would be more efficient if the 6 cities, that made up Metro Toronto, amalgamated into one MegaCity, known as Toronto. (see the remenants of the "1 Toronto for all of us" campaign) Some services had been shared under the "metro" banner, but each city, elected their own mayor, and delt with their own local issues, such as garbage collection, snow removal etc. All the cities had the same mail-in referendum. on March 3rd 1997. And the result was a resounding NO ,But that didn't seem to matter. January 1st 1998 The amalgamation of the 6 cities ( Toronto, Etobicoke, York, East York, North York and Scarborough) began. We elected Mel Lastman, long time North York Mayor, as the first MegaCity Mayor on November 10 1997. Welcome to Melville ! You will notice that all organizations that once had "Metro Toronto" in their name, no longer use that term.

• The New City of Toronto web site is up (though it is often hard to connect to !)
• and the Old City of Toronto site has been archived
• The Metro Toronto web site still exists.
• City of Scarborough MegaCity Information site
• Election Results for MegaCity Council from Former City of Scarborough
• Toronto Transition Team

Against the MegaCity

• Citizens for Local Democracy
• No MegaCity Coalition
• Stop Bill 103

Politicians

• Derwyn Shea - My (former)MPP (PC) - High Park-Swansee
• Sarmite Bulte - My (former) MP (Lib) - Parkdale-High Park
  

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