I choose Ossington for you. Look for places there. It’ll be loudest towards Queen & Dundas, and quieter the farther north towards Bloor you go. Lots of the apartments in that neighbourhood are subdivided houses, which can be really cool (or really grubby). Good luck!

You won’t be able to picnic comfortably outside until late May at the earliest.

Torontonians don’t really do the island in the winter unless they live there. But, here’s an article that says its great.

From the alternately dull and histrionic Torontoist:
“Holy Trinity’s “long history of innovative—critics would say maverick—approaches to church worship and outreach,” in Star reporter Tom Harpur’s words (May 28, 1977), was further strengthened when the Reverend C. James Fisk was appointed rector in 1962. Seeking to offer the membership greater influence in the running of the congregation, Fisk shared leadership with at least six part-time clergy selected from among the members.

Fisk believed, he once told a reporter, that Holy Trinity should welcome any person without their “beliefs and behavior” being questioned. Holy Trinity’s open-door policy eventually made it a haven for Vietnam War draft-dodgers, hippies, the city’s nascent gay community, the elderly, professors, and excommunicated priests. Responding to a journalist, one parishioner characterized the congregation as “unique.”

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a crowd of about 100 regularly attended the informal Sunday services—sitting in a circle, singing Pete Seeger-esque hymns to guitar accompaniment—and the church’s membership organized rallies in opposition to the Spadina Expressway, in support of gay rights, and countless other urban social causes. Religion was secondary, as one parishioner explained to a journalist: “The church services are regarded by some people as the least important part of this operation. I don’t really have any religion—nominally I’m an Anglican, I suppose. But I spend as much time around the square as the people who are religious.’” 

I believe the first anon covered all of that — no? Everyone agrees — Dimitri is terrible. 

<3 you guys

oh — I thought its horribleness was pretty obvious. Thanks for the help though!

Having one of the sales ravers in Graffiti Alley do it for you with her store’s hang-tag gun in 1994.

All tattoo artists in Toronto are anti-oppression.