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A bike advocate and a worried business owner face off over the Bloor Street bike lanes
The temporary Bloor bike lanes are on their way to becoming permanent, but not everyone is pleased
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I report the guy who hit me with his car door to the police?
"I didn’t break any bones, but my $700 bike was badly damaged"
City News
How to bike through the winter in comfort and style
Secret no. 4 to making the most of the city this chilly season
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I have to slow down when pedestrians wander into the bike lane?
"When I swerved around him, I accidentally nicked him with the end of my handlebar"
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: what should I do about an annoying e-biker?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Every day on my commute along Eastern Avenue, this guy on an electric bike zooms past my car, sometimes in...
City News
Hudson’s Bay Centre has pretty much been stealing people’s bikes
A communications consultant named Lisa Ferguson says she thought her bike had been stolen on Wednesday when she returned to the...
City News
Everybody hates Adelaide Street’s new bike lane
The official opening of Adelaide Street's new separated bike lane should have been a moment worth celebrating for Toronto's...
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City News
Goodbye Bixi, hello “Bike Share Toronto”
The long-awaited changing of the bike-share guard is going to be happening on Tuesday, April 1, when Bixi Toronto officially...
City News
Bixi has filed for bankruptcy (but Toronto’s bike stations should be fine)
After years of financial struggles, Bixi has finally gone and done it. The Montreal Gazette reports that the bike-share service's...
City News
Bixi Toronto isn’t shutting down after all because toilets
Bixi Toronto , the bike-share service whose demise once seemed virtually assured (largely due to the financial missteps of its...
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City News
Bixi Toronto is having major financial problems
Despite attracting thousands of subscribers, Bixi Toronto is still having trouble covering its operating costs two years in. The...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a Fred Perry cycling shirt designed by a Tour de France champ
With taxis, streetcar tracks, cars and rogue pedestrians to contend with, biking in Toronto can feel like a high-stakes road...
City News
Philip Preville: The case for making bike helmets mandatory
Driving without a seat belt is considered absurdly reckless. Why isn’t cycling without a helmet? Any cyclist who’s ever been...
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City News
The List: 10 things physician, undersea explorer and author Joe MacInnis can’t live without
1 | My customized hard hat I co-led an expedition to the Titanic in 1991. Everyone on board needed a hard hat, so I decided as...
Style
Street Style: 27 looks at the city on bikes (and other self-propelled vehicles)
There’s no question that Toronto is a city of cyclists (no matter what Rob Ford has to say about it). Still, thoroughfares...
City News
The coroner’s office wants Ontario to pass a mandatory bike helmet law
Ontario’s coroner’s office has revived the idea of a mandatory helmet law for all cyclists, rather than just riders younger...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 10, because the city is safer than ever
There were 45 homicides in Toronto last year. It’s a grim group: a 28-year-old man was gunned down at a family barbecue; a...
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Giro d’Italia winner rode a bike made by Toronto-based company Cervélo SA
Last weekend, Ryder Hesjedal won the Giro d’Italia road cycling race, and he rode a Toronto brand’s bicycle to win...
City News
The weirdest mayoralty ever—the inside story of Rob Ford’s city hall
On Newstalk 1010, the sly strains of the Hollies hit “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” offered the first clue. Then...
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City News
Torontonians pay higher Bixi fees than...well, everyone
Living in Toronto has been getting pricier and pricier, and the city’s rap for being expensive extends to its Bixi...
City News
How did Bixi do in its first year in Toronto?
Like proud parents, we can’t believe Bixi, the bike rental service and bona fide reason to love Toronto, is a year old already...
City News
Is Rob Ford waging a war on bikes?
It’s always fun when news agencies outside of Toronto pay attention to the city’s political scene, but this BBC clip about...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Lilly’s Lunches, a new bike-based brown bag delivery service
Lilly’s Lunches is a new one-woman and one-bike operation run entirely by Elizabeth Callahan. After growing weary with her day...
Style
Igor Kenk’s stolen bicycles will ride again (high schoolers are making sure of it)
Ever wonder what happened to the collection of stolen bicycles belonging (well, sort of) to bike-hoarder extraordinaire Igor Kenk?...
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Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative