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Reaction Roundup: what protestors, police and pundits are saying about Sammy Yatim’s death
Early Saturday morning, 18-year-old Sammy Yatim brandished a knife on the Dundas West streetcar, ordering everyone to get off. A...
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Here’s what the massive pre-dawn drug raid had to do with Rob Ford
After a (mostly) quiet week on the ongoing Rob Ford crack scandal, the rumour-mill revved up again this morning when police...
City News
Philip Preville: Does Toronto really need a $1-billion police force?
Zulfiqar Khimani holds the distinction of being Toronto’s most prolific parking enforcement officer. In the last five years he...
City News
The Audit: bank bonuses, the Blue Jays’ payroll and the month’s other notable numbers
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50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
City News
City hall budget warfare, round two: blanket freeze edition
Last year’s painful budget deliberations may still feel fresh, but it’s already time to start examining the 2013...
City News
Rob Ford’s meeting with Dalton McGuinty is a triumph, according to Rob Ford
Rob Ford is claiming victory after Dalton McGuinty pledged $12.5 million to help prevent gun violence across the...
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Reaction Roundup: who’s to blame for the Scarborough shooting and what should be done
Already unnerved by two brazen public shootings this summer, the city is now grappling with the Scarborough shooting that ended...
City News
One Redditor combed Twitter to build a surprisingly vivid account of the Scarborough shooting
This morning, Police Chief Bill Blair briefed the media about last night’s gun fight in Scarborough that killed two and left 21...
City News
Bill Blair sounds pretty skeptical about banning guns in Toronto
Bill Blair is the latest city personality to voice doubts about Adam Vaughan’ s suggestion to ban guns and bullets. On...
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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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Bill Blair finally admits that “things were not done well” at the G20 summit
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair was initially defensive about Gerry McNeilly’s scathing Independent Police Review report on G20...
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A report slams the G20 police response—but says most officers acted properly
Another long-awaited report on G20 policing—the second this week— is out, and it details some egregious behaviour, including...
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Some notables earning six-figures (or more!) from Ontario’s annual “sunshine list”
Once again, Ontario’s sunshine list has spotlighted the public servants who made $100,000 or more last year. A list of rich...
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Bill Blair blasts the Toronto Star for its use of “grotesque language”
The Toronto Star , having long chronicled Toronto’s police missteps and scandals, has finally gone too far for Police Chief Bill...
City News
There’s a new character in the sordid tale of Rob Ford versus Marg Delahunty: the almighty CBC ombudsperson
Although Bill Blair swooped in to save Rob Ford from reports that he’d called 911 dispatchers “bitches”—and called himself...
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Does Rob Ford have a real plan for the police (aside from offering his unconditional love and support)?
By now, you’ve likely heard— over and over and over —about Toronto’s particularly low homicide rate in 2011, which dropped...
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Toronto police play the part of The Avengers (and improve their image in the process)
The Globe and Mail reports that this week’s coordinated police raids—which took place both here and in far-flung locales like...
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Occupy Toronto gets its marching orders; police take a hands-off approach to the eviction
Yesterday, a judge ruled that it was within the city’s rights to evict Occupy Toronto from St. James Park. Some protesters...
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Quoted: Rob Ford says it’s about time the city asked Occupy Toronto to “move on”
“They have had a peaceful protest. I think it is time that we ask them to move on.” That was Mayor Rob Ford , speaking to...
City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
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More horror stories from the G20 detention centre means more searching for closure for the city
The long-simmering anger over the Toronto G20 was revived this week after the Toronto Star released surveillance footage from the...
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Rob Ford’s demand for 10 per cent budget cuts in all city departments is looking more and more arbitrary
With all the talk of Rob Ford’ s business cards, it’s easy to forget that city hall is in the midst of a nasty budget...
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Bill Blair comes to Rob Ford’s rescue over disputed 911 call
Bill Blair hasn’t exactly been Rob Ford’ s staunchest supporter of late. But at the end of last week, the police chief came to...
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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
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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