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Murdoch Most Foul

Among the stray thoughts that ran through Conrad Black’s mind this week, I’m certain more than a few were reserved for Rupert...
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Jane Jacobs heresies
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Jane Jacobs heresies

Mayor David Miller has issued a proclamation making today, May 4, 2007, Jane Jacobs Day. Jacobs, author of the seminal work The...
16.67% of GST revenues for your thoughts
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16.67% of GST revenues for your thoughts

The campaign to have the federal government cough up a share of GST revenues for cities got a shot in the arm yesterday, when the...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Any lingering doubt (and there can’t have been much) that may have plagued Lord Black et al. as to whether they got their...
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The Toronto Lexicon Returns!

expense account (x-p’nss a-kown’t) n. A petty cash allocation for office costs, in the amount of $53,000 per city councillor...

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 Burt and Kravis Show

The timing is rarely this good, so I might as well take advantage of it. In my last two pieces, I argued, among other things, that...
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Who should head the TTC?

Just over one month ago, with little fanfare, the Toronto Transit Commission announced that it was launching an international...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

With even the odd Brit straggling back to Room 1241 to hear the testimony of Big Jim Thompson (who, if you believe the...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

It’s all hands on deck as the prosecution puts the former four-term governor of Illinois, big Jim Thompson, on the stand. Once...
Advertising? In the city?
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Advertising? In the city?

When it comes to the city’s new street furniture contract , you have to take my perspective with a grain of salt. You see, I’m...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

After weeks of andante, the case turns lively this week as the prosecution tempo accelerates toward its crescendo and climax. With...
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Only Her Hairdresser Knows

When Barack Obama, presidential hopeful and Men’s Vogue cover boy, was recently on the Late Show With David Letterman , the host...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The prosecution’s version of that other legendary Chicago combination, Tinker to Evers to Chance (Burt to Kravis to...
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Double Standards

Perhaps it’s the first sign of trial-induced dementia, but lately I’ve been struck by certain paradoxical parallels between...
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The Best Defence

Last week, I argued that shareholders are deluded if they think that boards, company auditors, company lawyers and regulators can...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

While I’m sure the disinclined will suggest I’m fomenting a tempest in a teapot, this morning’s offerings deliver a plethora...
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Speeding through the Green Lane
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Speeding through the Green Lane

An excellent story in this morning’s Globe and Mail warns that Toronto’s purchase of the Green Lane landfill near...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

What’s past is prologue, and with the arrival of Richard Burt, Shakespeare’s bromide will inform the approach of both sides to...
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Airport cabbies redux

To update you on yesterday afternoon's post , council passedHoward Moscoe's Tit-for-Tat taxi bylaw forbidding Mississauga taxis...
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What are the Odds?

Some time after nine o’clock yesterday morning, I spied Albert Schultz, who played Conrad Black in the great man’s...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

If you’re one of those people who finds themselves sniggering uncontrollably at the following joke: What do you call 10,000...
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Cabbies, cops converge in council chamber

Just a quick tip for regular readers: watch the local six o’clock news tonight, because what happened today at city...
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Money out the Window

In a sense, it’s not just Conrad Black who’s on trial but many in a generation of what Peter Newman, in his 1981 second volume...
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Commuters inconvenienced by grisly, tragic death

Does my headline seem callous to you? I'm only mirroring the sensitivities of the Star in its front page headline . The inside...
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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?