40 YEARS AGO: On February 12, Bill Holloway and Tom Field were in front of a Hudson Bay store in Toronto, posing for photos for an article on homophobia. The photos were to depict the two of them kissing, right there out in the open, on the streets, where anyone could see them. When a ...

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Canada’s cities are modern metropolises, but locals (and visitors) love that even in the heart of urban living, you’re never too far from nature. The romantic, 55-acre Butchart Gardens are just outside Victoria. In Montreal, cyclists can pedal along hundreds of miles of dedicated paths. Readers who voted the two cities as among the best ...

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List of demands from Black Lives Matter was only signed to end blockade of parade, but “I’m not deciding what’s in the parade,” says Mathieu Chantelois. Pride Toronto’s executive director says he signed a list of demands from Black Lives Matter to end the group’s blockade of Sunday’s Pride parade, but has no plans to ...

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‘We are not taking any space away from any folks,’ said Alexandra Williams, co-founder of BLM Toronto Members of the Black Lives Matter Toronto group briefly halted the Pride parade today, holding up the marching for about 30 minutes. The parade didn’t re-start until after Pride Toronto executive director Mathieu Chantelois signed a document agreeing to the group’s ...

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Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders will apologize for the raids on four gay bathhouses across the city 35 years ago, CBC News has confirmed. Saunders is set to make the apology on behalf of his force on Wednesday. Nearly 300 men who owned or were patrons of the bathhouses were arrested on Feb. 5, 1981, ...

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Fundraising success could mean move to better, larger location on Church Street Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop plans to expand like its life depends on it — and it kind of does. Michael Erickson is one of the 23 owners who bought the world’s oldest LGBTQ bookstore in 2012 to save it from impending closure. “We’ve ...

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . In August 1917, 15-year-old Arnold chatted up Thomas C outside of the Star Burlesque on Temperance Street, near the corner of Adelaide and Yonge, in downtown Toronto. Thomas was a single 26-year-old — a “sausage-casing expert,” hilariously enough. Arnold remarked ...

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An agreement with Boyd Kodak, a transsexual man who was jailed in a women’s facility, will lead to revised policies for police interactions. Toronto police and the province have settled a human rights complaint lodged by a transsexual man who was arrested, placed in a women’s jail and forced to put on women’s undergarments and ...

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