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Q&A with Dominic D’Alessandro: the former CEO of Manulife tell us how to turn Toronto into a global financial capital
What have you been up to since you left Manulife a year ago? I sit on a number of boards, so I’m as busy as I want to be. I’ve...
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National media totally excited that Canada might get mentioned on Wikileaks
Like all good Canadians, we can’t help but notice when Canada is mentioned in international media, whether it’s The Daily Show...
City News
George Smitherman, Rick Mercer and other Canadian gays appear in It Gets Better video series
Tim Gunn did one . Hillary Clinton did one . Hell, Barack Obama did one . Seems as though making an It Gets Better video has...
City News
Ford’s up, Rossi’s down and Miller could still win: Toronto gets a confusing new poll about the mayoral race
Political junkies in the city were finally blessed at 4:04 yesterday afternoon with the news they’d been waiting for: a new...
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Reaction roundup: the best things said about Rob Ford’s worst week
If a mayoral candidate named Rob Ford has a Wednesday filled with such questions as “Is Rob Ford prejudiced?” and “How...
City News
Five things we learned about Canada from Esquire magazine’s grudging cross-border compliment
The stories just keep on coming: Canada has weathered the economic crisis relatively well, thanks to our prudent and stable...
City News
Is John Tory ready to concede that his 15 minutes is up—again?
Early on, we called John Tory 's mayoral indecision a “ Hamlet act .” Well, it now looks like Tory might finally have read the...
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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...
City News
Queen’s RIM job: five wonderful things Elizabeth II can do with her new BlackBerry
On Monday, our royal sovereign joined the ranks of famous BlackBerry owners ( Barack Obama , Queen Rania Al Abdullah of...
Food & Drink
Ladies’ choice: women are apparently better beer tasters than men
In February, when Stephen Harper chose Molson Canadian as his prize for winning a bet with Barack Obama , we wondered why he...
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City News
Five things we learned from Jon Stewart’s coverage of G20 Toronto
We’re as guilty as anyone for noting that coverage of the G20 was kind of sparse in the international media, but we knew that...
City News
Hogtown versus the world: how does Toronto’s G20 compare with previous summits?
The G20 summit has mostly wound down, and the result is pretty mediocre: for billions in spending and a few torched police...
City News
Welcome, G20 leaders! Now, spend some money here
The long-anticipated G20 summit has arrived in Toronto and has not been an unblemished joy for the people who live here. Between...
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Canadian rappers issue danceable call to arms, fuel G20 protestors’ unspecific rage
The music video for “Crash the Meeting” by local artists Test Their Logik is making the rounds on protestor sites. We see it...
City News
Tories spend $10M on North Bay airport for G8; no G8 planes actually landing there
We’ve got to hand it to the Star , which is being utterly relentless in following the G8/G20 spending debacle. Today's front...
City News
Obama borrows from Stephen Harper playbook, sings Beatles song
As Stephen Harper well knows, singing a little Beatles ditty is political gold. We have to admit we swooned a little when Harper...
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James Cameron to save world in real life, put an end to oil spill
The BP oil spill has been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history and the possible downfall of the Obama...
City News
“Political panellist” Ben Mulroney to Idol-ize mayoral debates
Starting tomorrow, Torontonians will get to witness a more civic side of Ben Mulroney . The pompadoured ex- Idol host is serving...
City News
Hometown boy David Frum sacked after speaking his mind
Prominent Toronto-born conservative David Frum is going to have to find another tank in which to do his thinking. Last week, after...
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G20 will allow Torontonians all the dignity of airport security without even travelling to Pearson
According to city leaders, the security planners in Ottawa aren’t listening to Toronto’s logistical concerns. Case in point:...
City News
Sarah Thomson’s cure for Toronto’s transit blues: subways, subways, subways (oh, and road tolls)
Mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson believes she has one solution to most of Toronto’s problems: 58 kilometres of new subway...
City News
Stephen Harper to interact with humans via machines
Stephen Harper, continuing his practice of bringing up the rear of the hip train driven by Barack Obama, has announced that he...
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Food & Drink
Harper and Obama bet on hockey game, winner takes beer
Sunday provided a trifecta of high stakes for Stephen Harper: Canada’s hockey matchup against the U.S.; the chance for Canada to...
Food & Drink
The art of scotch pairing, the messiah of coffee comes to Toronto, Martha Stewart’s vegetarian Thanksgiving
• According to the Globe and Mail , scotch’s “vast array of sweet toffee, smoky mineral, spiced citrus, dried fruit and...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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
Big Stories
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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