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Time for a TTC fare freeze

Now that the TTC has raised fares for metropasses, tickets and tokens, it seems like a good time to remind everyone that Howard...
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The tax debate meets the race for Queen's Park
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The tax debate meets the race for Queen’s Park

This morning Mayor David Miller, flanked by a bevy of city councillors and surrounded by a supportive audience, launched a public...
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McGuinty’s Teflon-coated broken promises

Everybody loves a horse race, especially one with a photo finish, and that’s what many are predicting in Ontario’s election: a...
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A Conversation with Peter Newman (Part 2)

What follows is the second part of my conversation with Peter C. Newman—whose story on the trial, A Great Fall," is in the...
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A Conversation with Peter Newman (Part 1)

What follows is the transcript of a conversation between myself and Peter C. Newman—whose story on the trial, A Great Fall," is...

Inside the Latest Issue

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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The secular argument for faith-based schooling

Has anyone yet noticed that all the arguments John Tory marshals in favour of his proposal to fund religious schools are purely...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The trial of Conrad Black has featured plenty of high drama, low comedy and the odd snaggle-toothed British reporter. But poetry?...
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Clever, clever Liberals
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Clever, clever Liberals

The McGuinty platform is full of appealing promises (full-day kindergarten saves parents money and opens up daycare spaces) and...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The September issue of the Literary Review of Canada , a subsidized Cancon knock off of the New York Review of Books , has a piece...
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Religious schools and the meaning of diversity

The Protestant supremacism of Orange Ontario is alive and well and cloaked in the sheep’s costume called secular humanism. This...
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A Great Fall

Watch this space next Monday, September 10. My conversation with Peter C. Newman—about his cover story on Conrad Black in the...
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Minority Report

There were no brownouts in August. In fact, to John Tory’s misfortune, we’ve had a remarkably mild summer, with most nights...
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Welcome back. Now gird yourself

I had a nice holiday. You too? Peachy! Just don’t ask anyone who works for either Mayor Miller or his close allies how their...
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Whyte Wash

Following the most spectacular journalistic comeuppances since Dewey Defeats Truman,” I promised myself I’d lay off...
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I’ll Be There For You

“News” regarding Baron Black of Crossharbour having been reduced for the moment to sightings at the Palm Beach Kwik-E-Mart, I...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Word that Marc Martin has asked, on his client’s behalf, that the judge “arrest” the judgment against him, has about it the...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Never has the phrase “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” been more sorely tested. Among the tsunami of punditing pundits...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The Chicago papers are full this morning of news and commentary bearing on Black nemesis “Skim” Jim Thompson. Yesterday, an...
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Sock It to ’Em

It was the day of the infamous jury note. Conrad arrived at the courthouse on a half-hour’s notice in something of a rumpled...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

One of the more engaging aspects of reading The Globe And Mail day to day is puzzling through some of the abstruse allusions and...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The idea that Conrad Black might have his house seized by the American government to pay off his forfeiture is just the chum in...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

This morning’s papers featured the first hard news coverage on the fallout from the Black trial in a couple of...
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Words of Wisdom

When not marvelling at the Rogers Cup tennis doings of Federer, Djokovic and Dancevic, I spent a good portion of my weekend with...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

A week ago last Wednesday, when Conrad Black walked out the back of Room 1241 condemned to stay in Chicago (possibly ferrying as...
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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?