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I am not a close friend of Derek Finkle, the former editor of Toro magazine. I’d say we are to each other the very definition of...

Return of The Courtstalker

Once again, from the bowels of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Building, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, arrives a...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

As we head into day three of David Radler’s j’accuse , the battle lines along which the press wages its various campaigns are...

Skim Jim

Last week’s testimony of former Illinois governor Jim Thompson stunned even me, though I was already jaded by the previous...

Dazed and Confused

With the Trial of the Millennial Epoch in something of a lull this sunny afternoon—what with the defence pawing the contents of...

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.

Oh no, more nukes

Oh no, more nukes

Apparently Ontario’s bright future could include up to eight new nuclear reactors . Energy Minister Dwight Duncan is downplaying...

Black Watch: Today's Top Stories

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

The laptopped elites from three continents having descended once again on Room 1241, the mighty wattage of their hived mind was...

The bureaucratic shield

The city needs new sources of revenue. What do councillors do? They request a study from city staff, who oblige with a series of...

Hard Knock Life

In case you were wondering what everybody’s favourite hip hop star’s been up to lately, submerged as I am in the minutiae of...

Black and Browne and Read All Over

Those whom the gods would destroy they would first make into a sideshow in a sleazy British tabloid scandal involving a disgraced...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

In the movie The Perfect Storm , there’s the bit where the benighted ship, the Andrea Gail, having been tossed and turned this...

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...

Jane Jacobs heresies

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Who should head the TTC?

Just over one month ago, with little fanfare, the Toronto Transit Commission announced that it was launching an international...

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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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