This weekend is Halloween! And to celebrate, I've created a morbid map of Toronto, sharing a few of the stories that appear in The Toron...

1779. The American Revolution was at its bloody height. John Graves Simcoe had already seen plenty of action. Years before he founded the ...

If you're a long-time reader, then you know all about The Toronto Dreams Project — it's the reason I started this blog way back i...

The most famous boarding school in the world just got a little bit more famous. Thanks to the shocking result of the Brexit referendum, E...

Wall Street. Home to the New York Stock Exchange. The heart of the American economy. Every day, countless tourists flock to this spot — a...

St. Patrick’s Day, 1858: a bloody day in the history of Toronto. Thomas D'Arcy McGee has come to town. He was once was an Irish revol...

In my first book, The Toronto Book of the Dead , we explored the history of the city through some of its most gruesome and grisly deaths....