
Toronto TAIWANfest explores the hidden history behind the city’s most famous intersection
Paige Wen hopes that the Decoding Toronto: The Invisible Cross of Toronto exhibition helps people feel more connected to the city.

Paige Wen hopes that the Decoding Toronto: The Invisible Cross of Toronto exhibition helps people feel more connected to the city.

A newcomer learns the words Yonge and Bloor before they learn a single building. Ask someone who arrived last month to find Casa Loma, and they reach for their phone…


Discover how Toronto’s 1793 Park Lot system still shapes its streets, neighbourhoods, and the familiar Bloor-Yonge cross today.

For a while, Yonge Street held a world record. It was also, for much of its early life, barely usable. Guinness World Records once listed Yonge Street as the longest street in the world at 1,896 kilometres.

On Saturday, June 6, around forty participants gathered at the Gardiner Museum for a Decoding Toronto knowledge stroll titled “Heritage Victorian College Building Styles at the University of Toronto,” led by Ron Shieh, an OAA architect and Life Member of the RAIC…

Toronto has never been a city with one right answer. Order hides rebellion here. Tolerance hides hierarchy…










Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society created Toronto Spark to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.