The List: 10 things CFL commissioner Mark Cohon can’t live without
1 | My indestructible watch In 1990 I went on an expedition to the Arctic with 30 Soviet and Canadian students. While I was preparing for the trip, my parents gave me this Rolex Submariner. On the...
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Battle of the baby polar bears: does Toronto or Buffalo have the cutest cub?
(Images: Hudson, Ken Ardill; Luna, Facebook) Toronto got a lot less adorable in January, when the Toronto Zoo’s young polar bear Hudson left for the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg. As if to rub it...
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Introducing: the Toronto Zoo’s new panda couple
After twelve years of planning, a pair of giant pandas on long-term loan from China’s Chongqing Zoo finally touched down in Toronto this morning. (The exhibit opens to the public in May after a...
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A tour of some of the Toronto Zoo’s cutest, cuddliest animals, including the...
Er Sun and Da Mao, two giant pandas on long-term loan from Chongqing Zoo in China, arrived via FedEx in March (Prime Minister Stephen Harper even signed for the package) and became an instant hit....
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Toronto’s three lady elephants are moving to California in a month (for real...
Finally, after years of bickering and delays, Toronto’s prolonged pachyderm saga is drawing to a close. Shortly after Thanksgiving, the Toronto Zoo’s biggest, wrinkliest residents, Toka, Iringa and...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Toronto Zoo’s new polar bear is approaching peak cuteness
There’s a magical time in the months after a polar bear is born when it’s too tiny to maul anyone, and yet also large and furry enough that it’s recognizably a bear. We saw Hudson, the Toronto Zoo‘s...
View ArticleHere’s a video of a Toronto Zoo panda playing in the snow
There’s plenty to hate about the city’s recent bout of extremely cold, snowy weather, but it seems as though the Toronto Zoo’s two pandas aren’t fazed by it. The pair are spending their first...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub takes the most adorable first steps...
The Toronto Zoo is the city’s greatest source of cute bear images. On Tuesday, we saw a delightful clip of a panda playing in the snow, and now the zoo has released this video of its two-month-old...
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See the Toronto Zoo’s new baby gorilla
Gorillas are huge primates, which somehow makes the baby versions even cuter than other newborn animals. Case in point is this tiny gorilla, born at the Toronto Zoo on January 9. As of Friday, zoo...
View ArticleWatch a Toronto Zoo panda tumble in the snow
What good is having pandas if you can’t watch security footage of them somersaulting through snowbanks? No good at all, that’s what. Thankfully, the Toronto Zoo realizes this, and the video is...
View ArticleVIDEO: the Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub frolics in the snow and continues to...
Toronto’s frigid winter and recent blizzards seem all worth it today. In the Toronto Zoo’s new video, its now three-month-old polar bear cub playfully embraces his new outdoor habitat and demonstrates...
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Toronto Zoo apologizes for almost giving its new polar bear cub a made-up...
(Image: Courtesy of the Toronto Zoo) Screwing up a clear-cut PR win like the naming of an adorable baby polar bear seems like it should be impossible, but now we know it isn’t. The Toronto Zoo has come...
View ArticleVIDEO: the Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub does a terrible job of revealing his...
Jeez, bear. Get it together. The post VIDEO: the Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub does a terrible job of revealing his new name appeared first on Toronto Life.
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 18–20
(Image: Michael Mitchener, from the Toronto Life Flickr Pool) In this edition of The Weekender, some Easter activities, Record Store Day and three more things to do in Toronto this weekend. THEATRE...
View ArticleEven pandas couldn’t help the Toronto Zoo last winter
165,636 —Total attendance at the Toronto Zoo during the first four months of 2014, according to a new report. That’s a loss of 9,049 visitors over the same period last year, which was before the zoo’s...
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