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Toronto area code stereotypes: a guide to the city’s shifting phone-based social hierarchy
Each area code in Toronto comes with its own set of stereotypes that—rightly or wrongly—circulate with remarkable...
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City News
Toronto’s housing forecast according to Garth Turner, the Dr. Doom of real estate
If the Toronto real estate market has nine lives, so, too, does its most famous prophet of doom, Garth Turner. Over a 40-year...
Real Estate News
TREB accuses the land transfer tax of pushing buyers to the ’burbs
According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, Torontonians are so horrified by the land transfer tax that they’re running for the...
Real Estate News
Suburban condos sales top Toronto for the first time ever
New condo sales in the 905 hit record levels in August, beating out Toronto for the first time. The numbers aren’t even...
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City News
CONFIRMED: Toronto gets two new area codes—416 and 647, meet 437 and 387
We mentioned a couple days ago that the CRTC was considering—“within weeks”—announcing a new area code for Toronto, a...
City News
Toronto is set to get a third area code, 416 holders set to get even smugger
The city is running out of phone numbers. Two decades ago, the GTA had to be split into the 416 and 905 area codes keep pace with...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2011
This year’s crop of restaurants, from a million-dollar dining room to a brazen burger joint, pushed Toronto’s culinary culture...
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City News
Diesel vs. electric trains: study vindicates Clean Train Coalition on debate over rail line to Pearson (but the province is buying diesel cars anyway)
Finally, a transit story that has absolutely nothing to do with Transit City. This one’s about a basic disagreement over...
City News
Oshawa mayor wanted Toronto’s Transit City money to fund expansion of the 407
The city of Oshawa, fresh from electing a man to city council without knowing he couldn’t take the job, is now in an uproar over...
City News
GTA slowly becoming election battleground: Julian Fantino makes it to cabinet, Peter Kent gets a promotion
With the news breaking last night that there was going to be a cabinet shuffle this afternoon, all eyes turned to Ottawa, where...
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Food & Drink
Ed Ho pulls out of plans to open an Earth 2 restaurant in Mississauga
After many months of demolition and construction, and many dollars spent, restaurateur Ed Ho (of Globe Bistro and Earth ) is...
City News
Media treating Julian Fantino’s election as if the fate of the world were at stake
Apparently, all it takes to be the talk of the nation is for a GTA by-election to go your way. Vaughan, best known to Torontonians...
City News
Toronto’s former top cop takes forever to win Vaughan by-election
The Liberals managed to make the Vaughan by-election a tight race—so tight that it wasn’t called until after...
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City News
Despite what Rob Ford says, light rail is best for Toronto: report
Turns out that David Miller ’s baby may not be as ugly as some were beginning to think . A new report says that Transit City is...
City News
Hazel McCallion dances on Carolyn Parrish’s political grave
Mississauga’s mayor for life, Hazel McCallion , has had a thorn in her side for four years, and that thorn is named Carolyn...
City News
Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
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City News
Furious George on Adam Giambrone: “We should be glad he will soon be out of our hair”
Furious George has managed to keep his cool in public of late—perhaps his epic stroll across the city is part of his new Zen...
City News
From the 416 to the 905, Toronto area codes are about to get a lot more significant
With Toronto’s new area code looming, the Star is predicting a “long-sought bump in prestige” for the dreaded 647 digits and...
City News
Mississauga transportation department mistakes itself for fraternity
In what reads like an HR professional’s surreal nightmare, a manager at the city of Mississauga’s transportation department...
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At big-city mayors’ conference, McCallion comes out swinging (and Miller comes out zinging)
The mayors of Canada's 22 largest cities, just ahead of an annual meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, gathered...
City News
New GTA area code to complicate established phone-based stereotypes
Just when downtowners thought they had suburbanites pigeonholed under the convenient umbrella term “905ers” (ignoring the...
City News
MPP accuses Torontonians of not knowing who Bambi is
If the whole Toronto-as-its-own-province thing sounded like a bad idea last month, its current champion (not Mel Lastman , that's...
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Channelling Mel Lastman, Tory MPP wants Toronto to separate from Ontario
Bill Murdoch, Tory MPP for Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, is pretty confident that he knows what Ontario is and what it isn't. And...
Food & Drink
Anne Burrell sued for discrimination, picking the best rum, the Annex gets even more 905-friendly
• Although Amy Adams portrays her in Julie and Julia as a cute cubicle dweller wanting to escape , the real-life Julie Powell...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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