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The Street Food Furniture Program

Who knew Toronto’s hot dog carts were such an eyesore of non-conformity? Yesterday, Mayor Miller put the kibosh to councillor...
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’Round and ’Round with Economic Indicators!

Apropos last Friday’s post about a Statscan report which noted that Canada’s rising incomes are being generated not by big...
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Return of the LongPen

The mutually beneficial embrace entwining Conrad Black and the LongPen continues this Wednesday at Waterstone’s Piccadilly in...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

On several occasions on this blog, I’ve suggested that the entwined cases of Muhammad Salah and Abdelhaleem Ashqar might be...
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Another Inconvenient Truth

Cities are the engines of the national economy. This is the assertion that girds every call for more money for municipalities:...

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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

Fortune’s ebb and flow is never more apparent than at auction. Joyner Waddington’s fall sale of Canadian art last night was no...
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A better reception than Stephen Harper would get

So there I was yesterday at city council, sitting at the back of the press gallery, caught up in conversation with councillor Adam...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Besides keeping an eye on a couple of his Canadian paintings up for auction at Waddington’s this evening, no doubt Lord Black is...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Recently a British composer of note described for me how the gutter instinct infects every strata of limey journalism. “The...
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When a Paradigm Turns Smug

The blog entry you are about to read probably should have been posted one week ago, when its topic—diabetes in suburbia—was...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Smatterings of Conrad Black in the news today as his portrait by Andy Warhol sells at Sotheby’s for more than expected ($240,000...
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Condominium Connect-the-Dots

So here we are: condominium sales have overtaken home sales for the first time ever. But I will refrain from crowing about the...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

There’s something spectacularly beside the point in Theresa Tedesco’s opus in this morning’s Post . Tedesco reports that...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

It’s a theme that runs through our collective take on Canada’s great and not so great. McCall and Clarkson on Trudeau: “He...
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I wouldn’t mind an increase in my water bill…

… such as the 9 per cent hike proposed by council’s executive committee yesterday , if Toronto Water was not in the habit of...
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The Science of Sentencing

Reading the mind of Judge Amy St. Eve when it comes to sentencing Conrad Black falls somewhere between deciphering tea leaves and...
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Where’d that Star headline go?

Sorry for going AWOL on the blog. Long story. Anyway, the front-page headline in this morning’s Star —“PM to cities: Drop...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

A careful parsing of his Lordship’s interview with Tom Moroney of Bloomberg Radio offers further evidence that despite his...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

This morning’s offerings include the usual assortment of Brits playing catch-up on Conrad Black’s most recent travails. Among...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Plenty to mull over today in light of Amy St. Eve’s entirely expected ruling quashing Conrad Black et al.’s efforts to elicit...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Down the years, Conrad Black’s efforts at both practising journalism and owning the presses that print it have met with mixed...
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Timing is Everything

As a businessman, Conrad Black’s successes were invariably put down to impeccable timing. In landing Argus and The Daily...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

While Canadians turn their attentions to the alleged misdeeds of Conrad Black’s old pal and confidant Brian Mulroney (see pages...
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Transit’s Gaping Maw

You know how Queen’s Parkies like to observe that health care costs eat up more and more of its budget, to the point where they...
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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?