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In 2008, I bought a house in a neighbourhood not far from downtown. The land transfer tax cost me thousands of dollars, and I...

Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro’s chilling, dystopic teen novel takes place in a near future both recognizable and...

Joining a drama in progress, it looks like yet another Canadian publication is getting burned—or at least mildly singed—from...

What a coincidence: once again, Rihanna has a new album to promote, and once again the tabloids are buzzing about a possible...

While some of us are still waiting for our new Twitter accounts to be switched over, at least one tech firm has rolled out its new...

K’naan and Shad Forget Drake (just for a moment). No other artist has been as successful at popularizing Canadian hip hop as...

Adam Giambrone hasn't been a candidate for mayor since The Incident , but even he wants to get in on the game that Rob Ford and...

In the fine tradition of Toronto summer projects, the Globe and Mail has been working hard at renovating its aging exterior into...

She’s regularly described as the finest Verdi soprano of her generation, the successor to legends Leontyne Price and Zinka...

Torontonians finally have some news about 311, city hall’s easy-info phone line that’s been up and running for nearly a...

Shortly after noon today, Conrad Black’ s lawyers walked into a Chicago courtroom and basically asked a panel of judges to kill...

That’s a picture of the Google News results for the Star ’s reporting on Sarah Thomson in the past 24 hours or so. Notice...

Coincidences are rare in politics, so it makes perfect sense that the two leading contenders to be mayor of Toronto released their...

By any measure he’s a terrible candidate for mayor. But his obsession with cost-cutting and his contempt for City Hall have pushed him to the front of the pack. The unlikely allure of Rob Ford

Dominatrices and sex workers were delighted today as a Toronto judge ruled to strike down Canada’s Criminal Code provisions...

Yesterday saw the latest battle in the war we’ve started to think of as “Is this the next [insert Apple product...

It’s official: Sarah Thomson has announced that her cash-strapped, anemically polling campaign is calling it a race and...

There are some endorsements that a campaign could be excused for running away from. When a convicted felon, say, sends a campaign...

As everyone surely knows by now, there was a massive high-rise fire in St. James Town last Friday, and now almost 2,000 people...

York University’s Vanier College welcome brochures contain helpful information for frosh week. They list clubs to join and an...

Rob Ford has already pledged to get cyclists and streetcars off Toronto’s streets—and it looks like marathons are next on his...

Phillip Crawley, the publisher of the Globe and Mail , is gambling $1.7 billion on a redesign that could revolutionize the...

Overwhelmed by the prospect of navigating Nuit Blanche’s 12-hour downtown art party? Don’t be. Here's an insider’s guide to...

After approximately as many debates as there are grains of sand at Sugar Beach, Toronto voters could be forgiven for running as...