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Fits and Smarts

Somebody at a more august publication than www.conradblacktrial.com (hard to believe, I know) has written something so much...

Early Daze

There have been many superior movies whose subject is the courtroom: Inherit the Wind , The Caine Mutiny , Judgment at Nuremburg...

Commuter brain food

Commuter brain food

Attention all car commuters: have you ever wondered, as you sit idling on a stalled 401 and your two-hour commute turns into a...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

A pall of silence has fallen upon the trial of Conrad Black. Or at least that’s how his nibs would describe it. The great...

Hate Toronto? Why stop there?

Hate Toronto? Why stop there?

The publicity machine for Albert Nerenberg’s new film Let’s All Hate Toronto is firing on all cylinders right now, in advance...

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.

I still have a crush on Kate Fenner

A tip of the hat to fellow bloggers torontoist.com for dredging up a favourite memory of my early twenties with a look back at the...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

One of the reasons homo sapiens open the newspaper in the morning is so that we might, however briefly, however...

Oops!

The biggest news in Toronto this morning was this story in the Star , which claimed that the McGuinty Liberals were wooing former...

Legal File: Video Hits

It is not completely clear how and why the Torys lawyers were able to get away with testifying by means of videotaped...

Peers the Thing

As the videotape continues to whirr away, marking like grains of sand through the hourglass the prosecution’s diminishing...

NHL politics pool!

Just a thought: given that the federal Tories are so eager to identify withMiddle Canada, I've got ten bucks that says Prime...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Flip Wilson made a career in comedy suggesting that his naughty behaviour was the result of satanic intervention—as in “the...

Business Brief: The Big Lie

Who should be on trial in Chicago for perpetrating fraud? That’s the question last week’s shenanigans at the Black trial...

Trash talk

Trash talk

City Hall’s attention has been taken hostage for the last 48 hours by an audit of the trash in park bins which shows that dog...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Many years ago, I was one of those “accident victims” swatted off the back of my bike by a truck. Decades later, I read the...

Blame the Lawyers

A couple of weeks ago, Michael Schachter and Ronald Safer (lawyers for Atkinson and Kipnis respectively), in the course of their...

Mind Reader

In the midst of another dark dank day brimming with Fred Creasey, Bora Bora (could an island have been more aptly named for its...

Crossing Delaware

A big deal was made yesterday over defendant Jack Boultbee’s plea for a mistrial and request that he be afforded a separate...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Beyond a failed effort by Jack Boultbee’s lawyer to engineer a mistrial, thereby winning for his client a trial separate from...

Spin Report: Waiting for Radler

Last week’s brief controversy about who paid how much for what in the famous Bora-Bora jaunt failed to lift the trial from the...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

After the tsunami of reports last Friday summarizing Fred Creasey’s dubious performance on the stand when faced with evidence...

Guy Walks Into a Mac’s…

What with Fred Creasey supposedly flip-flopping around like a landed bass on the bottom of the boat, I thought I might change the...

Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

“Bora Bora did not fit my allocation methodology,” said Fred Creasey, former Hollinger International bean-counter-in-chief. As...

Chasing Amy

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

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