Beer and News

Although Parkadale doesn’t really show up on this map of Toronto from 1894, the “institutions” that line its eastern and southern borders suggest that it was always kind of a haven for deviants and reprobates. I guess Parkdale was like the ‘burbs back then, only instead of having bix box stores like Costco and [...]

Hurray! Toronto police caught the notorious Parkdale purse snatcher. You can’t go stealing grannies’ purses in P-dale without the full might of Toronto’s finest coming down on your ass. But, although this “coward” is off the street, there are a few fellons still at large. Here are the ones that I know within two blocks [...]

I hate being at work when people start to fuck up my shit, but this story makes me feel lucky that I spend most of my day in a cubicle. It starts in late February when two armoured truck guards pull up to do a routine refill at a Parkdale ATM. However, on their way [...]

I should be surprised and disappointed that someone was gunned down two blocks from my house early Christmas morning, but I’m not. After spending the past week telling anyone who asked about what a shit hole (two words?) of a neighbourhood I moved to over the summer, it’s nice to see that I wasen’t exaggerating.
I use [...]

“Why I wanna be Parkdale’s city councillor,” by the Parkdale candidates
“I want to be councillor so I can make Parkdale more eco-friendly and TTC accesible…“
WTF!?! These candidates are delusional! They should be talking about making the ghetto less axe-murder friendly and crack-accessible. Sheeesh. Of course, this all-candidates profile was published in NOW — the pinkest, [...]

In “I did not know that” news, it turns out that Canadian Sexpert — and total MILF — Josey Vogels has been living in the Ghetto for years. She says the neighbourhood reminds her of her last home in Montreal. Funny, I’ve been to Montreal and I don’t recall any neighbourhoods that look like a [...]

You know sometimes when you wake up in the middle of the night thinking you heard something like a gun shot, or cop sirens or something? If you’re like me, you probably tell yourself you’re still drunk and to go back to sleep.
But then there are times when your neighbours house gets shot up. Man, [...]

I’ve been living in the fine ghetto of Parkdale for about a month now and I’ve slowly been getting used to the place. That is until yesterday evening when I was walking up Cowan St. and looked down to see a horrified face looking up at me from the sidewalk [pictured below]. I nearly crapped [...]