Via blogTO's Amy Grief shares some Toronto transit humour.

In YouTuber sweetsingin's latest video, he introduces Toronto to the Prestissimo card, "which automatically adjusts your transit fare in Toronto based on poor-quality service ( Read more... )

Torontoist shares this authentically amusing comedic take on Toronto's underground infrastructure.

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I'd always been curious to see Annekenstein. It was almost legendary in the 1990s--imagine, a long-running sketch comedy show that made fun of Anne of Green Gables! I do not joke when I say that some of my elders were disapproving of the idea ( Read more... )

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