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Andy Byford
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A few key moments from Andy Byford’s
60 Minutes
appearance
Toronto's gift to the world just keeps on giving
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What we learned from the
New Yorker
’s profile of Andy Byford
The ex-TTC chief has hit the big time
City News
Andy Byford, Toronto’s departing transit chief, just sold his Summerhill house
As he prepares to move to New York, the TTC's CEO cashes in on his Toronto real estate
City News
Watch Jus Reign and TTC CEO Andy Byford drive around Toronto
Andy Byford's company car, he likes to joke, is the subway. Maybe that's because he's the CEO of the TTC, which happens to be the...
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Q&A: Andy Byford, the TTC’s top executive, staunchest defender and chief apology specialist
Most Toronto transit riders have experienced at least one moment of hopelessness about the state of the TTC—but Andy Byford...
City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014
It’s been a big year in the corridors of power, with an infusion of ambitious new leaders in the city’s most influential...
City News
Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
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Watch Andy Byford talk about the lesser-known features of Toronto’s new streetcars
With only a little more than a week to go before the first of the TTC's next-generation streetcars goes into service on Spadina...
City News
You’ll never believe how ancient the TTC’s technology actually is (there’s a blacksmith involved)
Fresh off an apology for Monday morning's awful commute, TTC CEO Andy Byford appeared on CBC's Metro Morning today to talk about...
City News
The Spadina Subway Extension is behind schedule—but at least it’s actually being built
Here's a phrase you never want to hear from TTC CEO Andy Byford : "The project is facing a serious schedule challenge."...
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The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
City News
TTC fare hike is probably coming just when no one wants it—in January
Something to contemplate as you wait on the crammed subway platform this evening: the Toronto Transit Commission is looking to...
City News
SLIDESHOW: Boardroom bigshots, gossip gurus and civic leaders at Toronto Life’s bash for the city’s most influential people
Powerful Torontonians descended on the Ritz-Carlton last night to see Toronto Life unveil its 2013 ranking of the city’s 50 Most...
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Six common reactions to the proposal to rename Toronto subway lines
In two weeks, the TTC board will consider replacing the names of Toronto subway lines with numbers to make things less confusing...
City News
Sunshine List: how much Rob Ford, Paul Godfrey and Chris Spence earned in 2012
Each year, Queen’s Park releases the sunshine list, a catalogue of all the Ontario public servants who made $100,000 or...
City News
QUOTED: Andy Byford to Rob Ford, “Don’t Call Me [Maybe]”
—TTC chief Andy Byford, asking Rob Ford to take him off his speed dial in the wake of the brouhaha surrounding a TTC bus that...
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More evidence of a new era at the TTC: cellphone service on subway platforms is in; maroon jackets are out
As soon as Andy Byford took the helm of the TTC in March, the changes began. He opted for a beefed up title—“CEO” rather...
City News
The TTC embraces transparency—and (hopefully) punctuality with new scorecards
The TTC has introduced a daily online report card (the next phase in an information blitz that also includes this charmingly...
City News
Rob Ford says a TTC driver “accosted” him for doing something perfectly legal
Rob Ford’ s dislike of streetcars had until now mostly been limited to speechifying and pamphlets on LRT crashes, but now he’s...
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Karen Stintz and Rob Ford get passive-aggressive while celebrating the Spadina subway extension
Yesterday, transit adversaries Rob Ford and Karen Stintz met up (awkward!) to celebrate the tunnelling of the first section of the...
City News
TTC supports Metrolinx’s Eglinton plans—but wants you to know who’s responsible if things go wrong
Despite ongoing reports of a TTC versus Metrolinx power struggle, TTC brass have grudgingly come out in support of Metrolinx’s...
City News
TTC staff eat an impressive amount of doughnuts—but aren’t so good with submitting receipts
Severe reprimands seem to be the trend this week at the Toronto Transit Commission; first came one from TTC chief exec Andy...
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Andy Byford writes an icy memo to TTC employees
The TTC has had a few customer service embarrassments over the last few years (workers texting on the road, leaving their routes...
City News
TTC boss (and clean freak) Andy Byford shows off some shiny new washrooms
With all the recent drama at the TTC, the commission may have found a new PR tactic to (briefly) redirect public attention:...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
Toronto Life
’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
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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