Running down the numbers on bikes in Toronto.

I’m in love with Bixi. But like all relationships, it ain’t perfect.

When it comes to cycling safety, Toronto is riding in circles.

MONTREAL – North America’s longest-running student strike marked its 100th day this week amidst a legislated crackdown, putting Canada on the map as a global anti-austerity hot spot.

The first song I ever heard by Edmonton dream-pop musician Jessica Jalbert was the melodic and mellow gem Lack Of A Lake. Climbing, clean guitar lines trade off with Jalbert’s pretty, drawling vocals, the effect like end-of-summer sun on bare skin.

Graham Douglas Bertie should be in Glasgow but is instead stuck in an airport in Berlin.

When the owner of 27-year-old bike shop Bathurst Cycle was ready to retire last fall, he approached Bateman’s Bicycle Company down the street about taking over the business. Robert Bateman wasn’t initially sure he wanted to expand again; he’d just finished converting an 1886 alleyway barn into a new repair shop. But the close proximity of the Bathurst Cycle space eventually sealed the deal.

Elizabeth Callahan wants people to think about how the food they eat gets to them.

The Gladstone’s second floor is given over this month to a broad and slightly uneven showcase of established and emerging photographers.

The rapid rise and fall of the first openly gay rock star is a fascinating story, but unfortunately it’s clumsily told in Keiran Turner’s doc. The film is packed with great interviews and archival footage but held back by badly integrated animated interludes and heavy-handed narration. Nevertheless, it’s a heartbreaking study of fame, hype and homophobia.