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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

These are the days of tea leaves and shamans. While upward of a million Chicagoans wandered through Grant Park last night, staring...

Our pay-per-view future

News for media junkies: Today’s Statscan Daily reports that television had a banner year for advertising revenues in 2006. Two...

The happy-go-lucky, cycle-commuting councillor

Glenn De Baeremaeker is unfailingly one of the happiest and most ebullient members of city council. I hadn’t met him up close...

Counting cars

After yesterday’s lively discussion about the relationship between Toronto and its suburbs, along comes this clever little story...

Waiting Game

While we await a verdict in Conrad Black et al. v. the United States, the 12th floor of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Building...

Inside the Latest Issue

The July issue of Toronto Life features the monster cottages of Muskoka versus the resistance. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.

Visionary and incendiary

Visionary and incendiary

Those of you who read my column in the June issue of Toronto Life already know just how disorganized the city’s planning...

Black Talk: Now Live

We are taking your questions about the trial now. Please go here . Update: the discussion has now closed. Continue reading for the...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Rather than grinding your gears with a rehash of notes sent from the jury room to the judge , or recapping the Globe ’s tasteful...

Black Talk: A Live Discussion

Tomorrow, Friday, June 29, at noon ET, I will be answering questions from readers about the trial. The discussion will be live for...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

There was nothing quite so spectacularly—how to put it?—comprehensive as yesterday’s coverage in the Post . But the...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

As the Meedja moves into the period of building hysteria, coverage that was merely cacophonous has now morphed into confusion akin...

The Jury is Out: A Live Discussion

At 5 p.m. ET, I will be chatting with Alan Gold about the legal matters surrounding the trial. You can read the live conversation...

Green whine

Council’s executive committee yesterday approved Mayor David Miller’s climate-change plan. But despite the unanimous vote, a...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Reports this morning describe some effective theatrics from the defence. The Globe ’s Paul Waldie writes that Atkinson’s...

Transit City Revisited

Back when Toronto’s Transit City proposal for a new network of light-rail transit lines was first announced, I and many others...

June 26 Live Discussion

On Tuesday, June 26, Alan Gold, Roger Martin and myself will be discussing legal and business matters related to the trial. The...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The end is finally and irrevocably nigh. Today the limber-faced Ron Safer, acting for Mark Kipnis, finishes off the summary...

The black banana

Bad news for Dalton McGuinty: Ontario’s economy is Wall Street Journal . When Ontario’s economy grows slower than those of...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The last day of the trial week (in the final stages of a three-month ordeal) saw a lot of giddy school’s-out behaviour among...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

As the trial rattles toward its denouement sometime on Tuesday of next week and the fate of Black et al. falls into the laps of 12...

Accessories to an Alleged Crime

We’re finally nearing the end of the Conrad Black trial in Chicago. Jurors will soon be scratching their heads, gnawing on their...

Make mine 75 litres

I’ve had to go AWOL this week. Alas for me, I missed out as Wall Street Journal they’ve been floating for what feels like...

Put Your Eds Together

Yesterday was a banner—if somewhat disjointed—day for the defence. Eddie Greenspan’s presentation in the morning had a...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Monday was Ruder’s day, and yesterday and today belonged to the two Eddies—though you wouldn’t know it from Rosie DiManno in...

Cost of Living

These North York points enthusiasts earn $370,000 a year. How do they spend it?

These North York points enthusiasts earn $370,000 a year. How do they spend it?

“We try to maximize our rewards by using various credit cards plus PC Optimum”

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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”

Urban Diplomat

Dear Urban Diplomat: My family takes Mother’s Day more seriously than Father’s Day

Dear Urban Diplomat: My family takes Mother’s Day more seriously than Father’s Day

She gets flowers, gifts and breakfast in bed; I get a lousy grill brush. Am I wrong to feel slighted?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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