Toronto is always a buzz with a scandal, unrest at city hall, or the poor play of a local sports team. Thankfully, the city is served by a number of deticated television networks, newspapers, radio stations, and online blogs/sites.
Official City Site: http://www.toronto.ca/
Local Blogs/Sites:
Blog TO - One of the better and more up to date blogs on the City of Toronto. Slightly hipster, but none the less, they provide a great amount of information if you're looking for food, drinks, or an opinion.
Torontoist - A blog more focused news and arts, rather than 'Best of' list.
Spacing Toronto - A great blog focusing mostly on news of the day. They always have a compiled list of news sorted out, if you're just looking for the latest headlines.
Urban Toronto - In my experience, this is the most active forum on the web in regards to Toronto. The specific focus of the site is on urban planning, but the forums touch upon all bases for life in the city.
Newspapers:
The Toronto Star - The city's major newspaper, for better, or worse. They have AP releases, opinion articles, weather, and the most sports coverage.
Metro News - The city's free newspaper, which actual has quite a bit of content. You can identify these ones by the green newspaper stands on nearly every corner of downtown. Or by the mess of newspapers on the subway cars after rush hour.
Toronto Sun - The local tabloids of sorts, with a more Conservative tone if the Star reading 'Pinkos' have you down. They don't tend to break much news, so much as make it.
The Globe and Mail - A national paper with a specific section for Toronto.
The National Post - A national paper with a specific section for Toronto.
Television and Radio:
CP24 - 24 Hour news station for Toronto. If you're in a Coffee Time, convenience store, or waiting room, it's likely this is on.
CityTV - CityTV's local Toronto station featuring a lot of prime time programming, as well as morning and evening newscast.
CBC - CBC's local Toronto site, featuring weather, news, links to the CBC Toronto radio stations, and podcast.
News Talk 680 - News talk radio for Toronto, mostly running repeated news every half an hour with traffic conditions. Tune in to this if you're on the road and want to know what's up ahead.
Fan 590 - Sports talk radio, where you can hear hockey-pucks yuk up the Leafs all day long, but occasionally you may find a baseball, or basketball game on.
Toronto is one of the often overlooked tortured sports cities of North America. We even have those annoying fans to boot! But despite recent troubles in nearly every sport (aside from our glorious NLL team), there is reason for optimism with a few franchises. And uh.. well, we won 'America's Past Time' twice in the 90s! Take that!
Teams:
Toronto Maple Leafs , NHL - The talk of the town, and it's usually not positive. They've torn the team down and are rebuilding with younger talent. A far better method than signing veterans and praying to make the 8th seed. Tickets are absurd in price for most games, and the seats are usually filled with suits.
Toronto Raptors, NBA - When it comes to basketball, I wonder if people remember there's an NBA team playing in the city still after Chris Bosh took his talents to South Beach. The team has not had much success over the years (issues convincing American free agents to sign), but there is a very devoted fan base.
Toronto Blue Jays, MLB - It's a tough life playing in the same division with the Red Sox and Yankees, but a couple decades ago the Jays were the cream of the crop in all of baseball. It's been a promising start to 2011, but we'll see..
Toronto FC, MLS. Our very popular, but not so successful soccer franchise. They do have the benefit of playing in the best stadium in the city.
Toronto Argonauts, CFL. One of the more overlooked franchises when they're not making it to Grey Cups, the Argonauts have been competitive most years. If they could only move out of the dome..
Toronto Marlies, AHL. The Marlies might do a better job if the Leafs would quit calling people up. Never having much success, they struggle with attendance as well.
Toronto Rock, NLL. Finally, the successful franchise in the city. Our lacrosse team has championships in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2011. If you want to see what winning looks like, go to a Rock game for a fraction of a Leaf's ticket price.
Major Venues:
Rogers Centre -Jays/Argos
Air Canada Centre -Leafs/Raptors/Rock
BMO Field -TFC
Ricoh Coliseum -Marlies
Fan Sites:
Raptors RealGM - The most active board on RealGM. Where a lot of fantasy trades are discussed and never happen.
HF Leafs - A very active Leaf's forum.
DrunkJaysfans - A humours blog about the on going season for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Big Soccer TFC - A fan forum for Toronto FC.