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Hey, Hoy! Thanks for the publicity

Why do I bother plugging my own work when the city can do the job for me? In response to my January cover story, City Manager...
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Black Watch: Reaction from around the world

As was the case after verdict day, the ink flowed freely in Britain, the U.S. and Canada, bringing news of the continuing traffic...
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Black Watch: Post-Sentencing Report

Conrad Black’s three-ring circus and pandemonium medicine show came thundering back into town today. And while not so long ago...
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Black Watch: Sentenced

His Lordship has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison, and ordered to pay $6.1 million in restitution as well as a...
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The latest print edition of Toronto Life is now on newsstands, featuring a cover story penned by me. I had no say in the cover’s...

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The June issue of Toronto Life features the best new restaurants of 2026. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.

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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

It’s as though we’ve never been away. On Sunday night, with the Christmas lights of Chicago exploding along every...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Like a pack of overexcited bonobo chimps, the British press can barely contain their onanistic glee at the prospect of prison time...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Lots of harrumphing and throat clearing as the fourth estate prepares to descend on Chicago for this Monday’s reckoning on...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Lord Black’s pronouncement published today clearly indicates his resignation to the prospect of jail. “I can cope with it if...
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Oh Karlheinz! The Musical

Just to throw my voice upon the heap: Karlheinz Schreiber is a con artist, and last week’s column by Rick Salutin nailed his...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Like a gaggle of prattling private school brats straight out of Tom Brown’s Schooldays , the British press launched this morning...
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The Third Sector

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the gala dinner of the country’s first Social Entrepreneurship Summit. It was like...
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How Badly Does Tory Want to be Premier?

John Tory fans will want to take a quick peek here. It’s a cute attempt to unseat Tory as leader of the PC Party of Ontario (and...
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So there

I have been told, once or twice, that I was not qualified to write about Toronto politics because I am not from here. Admittedly...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

It really was inevitable, wasn’t it? Having more or less held their fire throughout Lord Black’s season of...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The weekend saw more fallout from Black’s rant on the BBC, a taunting swipe from an old enemy, and the usual run-up to...
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Do Hospitals Kill People?

I know a few doctors, and most of those I know didn’t have a fun weekend. So far as I can tell, most of the city’s hospital...
The Scarborough Curse
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The Scarborough Curse

How did boring, white-bread Scarberia become Scarlem—a mess of street gangs, firebombings and stabbings? Portrait of Toronto’s...
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File Under Stintz, Karen

And also under apologies, demanded and not received .
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Whatever else one might say about Conrad Black (most of which must have been broadcast at one time or another by participants on...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Another flood of Blackanalia this morning, what with reports on the defence’s 53-page response to the PSR, the hundred-odd...
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Spinal Tapped

Checking the Google News page today, I learned that Alanis Morrissette had been “tapped” for the Canadian Music Hall of...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

There was an avalanche of coverage this morning discussing the implications of his Lordship’s Pre Sentencing Report (PSR). Led...
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Toronto, Antiseptic City

Yesterday’s post was an ode to cart food, and so is today’s. The humourless Royal Ontario Museum wants to shoo hot dog vendors...
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Cost of Living

This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?
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This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?

“I love a good bargain, so I shop at No Frills”
This globetrotting couple earns a combined $287,000 a year. How do they spend it?
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This globetrotting couple earns a combined $287,000 a year. How do they spend it?

“Groceries are our biggest monthly expense after rent”
This Doctors Without Borders marketer earns $100,000 a year. How does she spend it?
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This Doctors Without Borders marketer earns $100,000 a year. How does she spend it?

Manpreet Badyal moved from Delhi to Vancouver to Toronto in search of success
How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money
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How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money

Business analyst and budding TikTok investment guru Chaeeun Lee hopes to visit 50 countries before she turns 30
This policy analyst and stand-up comedian makes $83,000 a year. How does she spend it?
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This policy analyst and stand-up comedian makes $83,000 a year. How does she spend it?

“Investing in mental health is important. I have an unlimited membership at Othership in Yorkville”
This entrepreneur is on track to make $23,000 this year. How does she spend it?
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This entrepreneur is on track to make $23,000 this year. How does she spend it?

“It was hard to accept financial aid from my parents, but it actually brought us closer together”
How an actor, influencer and amateur investor managed to earn a six-figure salary
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How an actor, influencer and amateur investor managed to earn a six-figure salary

“My family taught me to invest. It’s probably the wisest advice they’ve ever given me”

Urban Diplomat

Dear Urban Diplomat: What’s the etiquette for EV charging?
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Dear Urban Diplomat: What’s the etiquette for EV charging?

Dear Urban Diplomat , What’s the etiquette for EV charging? A few weeks ago, I finally found a spot in my neighbourhood to juice...
Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband thinks I'm a hoarder, but I'm a collector
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband thinks I’m a hoarder, but I’m a collector

He’s started quoting Marie Kondo and insisting that I get rid of my “emotional support tchotchkes.” How can I get him to back off?
Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo building has zero tolerance for the slightest noise
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo building has zero tolerance for the slightest noise

They’ve asked us not to shower after 11 p.m. because of “pipe whistling.” Is this normal?
Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband bought us a pass to skip the line at the ski hill. Why do I feel guilty for using it?
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband bought us a pass to skip the line at the ski hill. Why do I feel guilty for using it?

I can’t help being embarrassed every time I sheepishly walk past the eye rollers in the regular queue
Dear Urban Diplomat: My brother is lying online about Dry January
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My brother is lying online about Dry January

He’s preaching the virtues of sobriety on TikTok but still crushing six-packs every weekend, and the hypocrisy is getting on my nerves. Should I call him out?
Dear Urban Diplomat: My co-workers have forgotten how to behave in an office
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My co-workers have forgotten how to behave in an office

I actually don’t mind the return-to-office mandate, but it seems like so much working from home has caused my fellow employees’ self-awareness to atrophy
Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends are getting into sober raves, and I just can't see the appeal
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends are getting into sober raves, and I just can’t see the appeal

How does one cut loose in a well-lit room while the sun is shining and no one is even a little intoxicated?