Deep Dives

Noam Tomaschoff grew up in a tight-knit family with strong ties to Toronto’s Jewish community. After he took a DNA test on a lark, the story of his life unravelled

Doug Ford’s U-turn decision to earmark swaths of the Greenbelt for development prompted widespread outrage, plus pockets of praise, across the GTA. But what do the people who live and work on the land think about it?

Before she became a global phenomenon, Shania Twain was flipping burgers, hawking jeans and fronting cover bands in Toronto. Today, the queen of country pop is touring the world with a new album, but she’s still nostalgic about the city that made her

From a young age, Courtney Wallis Simpson had big plans, and she was ruthlessly ambitious when it came to achieving them. To finance her lifestyle, she hatched a series of property schemes that would cost her victims—more than 100 of them—millions

In 2022, the Toronto District School Board consolidated two high schools into one crumbling, crowded building. Within weeks, stressed-out students were brawling in the halls, teachers were refusing to come in to work and parents were yanking their kids out of class

The police traced the weapon, raided his workshop and shot him. Two people dead. No problems solved. Inside the impossible gun violence epidemic

Inside the scandal that decimated one of the province's fastest-growing congregations

Baseball got him through a turbulent childhood, and he grew up to be a phenomenal pitcher with a heart of gold. He's a good friend to have and a fierce enemy to face. In other words, just what the Jays need right now

On a quiet country road just outside of Toronto, a charismatic martial arts teacher built a megamansion for his entourage of disciples. For 15 years, he preached peace and love. Then, one morning, the police stormed in and secrets came spilling out

Before he was the egomaniacal, influential and just plain weird owner of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, he was an awkward kid who built computers and chased girls at Queen’s University

He was charming, successful and looking for love. What could go wrong?

It took 36 years, three police forces and a massive search of DNA databases to finally, definitively, crack the case

Tse Chi Lop, the suspected ringleader of a $21-billion crime syndicate, may be the world’s most innovative drug lord. And Toronto was his training ground

Sanjay Madan’s job was to distribute pandemic payments to Ontario families. He found an ingenious way to take millions for himself

When my colleague got Covid-19, I was scared. When 280 others caught it, I was convinced I was next

George Otto was a respected family physician with a clinic in the northwest corner of the city. But he had a secret: after hours, he was running a booming fentanyl business

It's fine for kids who have high-speed internet, fancy laptops and tech-savvy adults around to help out. This is a story about everybody else

A year's worth of murder, fraud and Covid heroes

The sensible shoes and twin sets are gone, replaced by stilettos and crystal-encrusted gowns. There are valet parking and personal shoppers, and they’re serving champagne up on three. It’s all a part of the Bay’s scheme to win the loyalty of society shopaholics—and steal the fashion crown from Holts

A story about contaminated hospitals, dirty doctors and the bacteria that are killing 8,000 Canadians a year

Months before the market crumbled, she wrote a best-seller about careless investments and crushing debt. This isn’t the first time she’s had prophetic visions.

Loblaw’s decline is a story of clashing egos, professional jealousy and strategic screw-ups, the biggest mistake being the company’s decision to try to out-Wal-Mart Wal-Mart.

In the early morning of February 21, 1974, Tim Horton drove off the Queen Elizabeth Way at over 250 kilometres an hour trying to avoid a police roadblock, killing himself, shattering a family, ending a business partnership and setting in motion the process that would erase the memory of who he really was

In the dead of night, he breaks into your house and snatches your car keys. The next day, your SUV is in a shipping container on its way to the Middle East, and he’s $50,000 richer