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The Cult of Pastor Song: a religious sex scandal in Toronto’s Korean community
The sex scandal consuming Toronto’s Korean community began when six international students said they were repeatedly gang-raped...
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Remember when Perez Hilton was assaulted in Toronto? He’s coming back to visit!
Some people consider Perez Hilton to be obnoxious, but he made waves recently when he decided to wear a blazer with no shirt in an...
City News
GALLERY: some of our favourite signs, outfits and marchers at the second annual SlutWalk
Hundreds of marchers—in outfits ranging from jeans and tees to bondage gear to not much of anything—cheered, chanted and...
City News
How bullying became the crisis of a generation
Kids are committing suicide, parents are in a panic, and schools that neglect to protect students are lawsuit targets Mitchell...
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Activist arrested after penning a blog post calling out a “screw-rat infiltrator”
Activist, journalist and blogger Dan Kellar was arrested last week after he named and published a picture of a man he believed to...
City News
TTC to ban passengers who assault transit staff
In the aftermath of a particularly vicious assault on a TTC worker last Monday, the TTC is going to try to lower the boom on...
City News
How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
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SIU closes investigation into the Adam Nobody assault—again
The total number of police officers who will be charged in the beating of Adam Nobody at last summer’s G20 summit...
City News
Another front-page treatment on the Star, another officer charged with G20 offenses
The Toronto Star continued to do the investigative work the Toronto police would prefer it didn’t, managing once more to splash...
City News
UPDATE: Toronto Police Service reopens G20 assault case after the Star makes it look bad
Well, that was fast. This morning, the Toronto Star reported that even the roommate of the cop who allegedly assaulted Dorian...
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CBC reporter Mellissa Fung was abducted, stabbed and held captive in the Afghan desert for 28 days—and she wants to go back
In your new book, Under an Afghan Sky, you describe being taken hostage by Taliban sympathizers. Tell us about the abduction. I...
City News
Yesterday’s arrest means Parkdale can breathe a little easier—but the treatment of the mentally ill remains an issue
After a disturbing series of assaults that targeted residents with mental illness—some of whom were elderly—in the city’s...
City News
Toronto cop reportedly tells students to avoid sexual assault by not dressing “like a slut”
A word of advice to women from a Toronto police officer: to avoid sexual assault, don’t dress “like a slut.” This according...
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SIU charges Toronto officer in Adam Nobody beating, as poll shows confidence in police slipping
Breaking news today as the SIU—the body looking into police behaviour during the G20—announces it has finally, after the...
City News
Toronto Leonardo DiCaprio slasher sentenced to time in U.S.
The Toronto woman who slashed Leonardo DiCaprio in the face with broken glass at a house party in 2005 has been sentenced to two...
City News
Things keep getting better for Toronto police—now they’ve lost Rosie DiManno
When he issued an apology last Friday, Bill Blair probably hoped that he’d put the matter of “ Adam Nobody vs. Many Police...
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Hell House: Why the Don Jail is a wretched, dangerous dungeon that should have been shut down ages ago
Last year, Jeff Munro was beaten to death at the Don Jail over a bag of chips. His fate was not unusual. The Don is a...
Culture
Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach charged with assault in Peterborough
Sebastian Bach —to some the lead singer of Skid Row, to us the rocker from Gilmore Girls —has been charged with assault after...
City News
Mr. Popular: Why Rob Ford’s winning over Toronto
By any measure he’s a terrible candidate for mayor. But his obsession with cost-cutting and his contempt for City Hall have pushed him to the front of the pack. The unlikely allure of Rob Ford
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What evil lurks: sexual assault is a serious problem at universities, and our schools are overlooking the solution
York University’s Vanier College welcome brochures contain helpful information for frosh week. They list clubs to join and an...
City News
Michael Bryant’s very bad year: his life on bail, how he got off, and his surprise comeback
A 28-second fight resulted in the death of a cyclist and almost ended the career of the cocky, ruthlessly ambitious Michael...
City News
After initial forgetfulness, Rob Ford comes clean on the time he was caught with pot and refused to take a breathalyzer
Rob Ford has had what anyone would call a pretty bad week. After his performance at the debate on Tuesday night, Wednesday was...
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Officer Bubbles takes Toronto
This G20 thing just isn’t going away. A video by Real News that went viral on YouTube last week shows a young woman blowing...
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Is Rob Ford Toronto’s Sarah Palin? A five-point comparison
Rob Ford is in trouble again for blabbing sensitive information to the public. This time, his critics on city council are accusing...
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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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