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Bill Blair
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Police reduce dry cleaning costs, media dutifully report on most boring gravy ever
Turns out Bill Blair can be cooperative after all. Although Toronto media have largely focused on Rob Ford bending to Blair’s...
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Rob Ford gives into the police budget, shoots himself in the foot
Rob Ford’s decision last week to approve a pricey police budget suggests there may be some wiggle room for other city...
City News
Frances Nunziata proposes a new vehicle registration tax (i.e. licensing cyclists)
Councillor Frances Nunziata is talking about licensing cyclists, an idea that’s regularly floated at city hall and always met...
City News
Both sides declare victory on police budget (even though Bill Blair received pretty much everything he wanted)
Rob Ford’ s allies folded like a cheap shirt in the ongoing dispute regarding the police budget. Recall that Chief Bill Blair...
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Rob Ford is a model mayor for municipalities across Canada (no, really)
Apparently, cities across Canada still look to Toronto as a role model on certain municipal issues, particularly when it comes to...
City News
Comparisons between the G20 and Occupy Toronto protests are coming a touch too early
This weekend, Toronto demonstrators will launch a protest motivated by the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York...
City News
Rob Ford tries to explain what he loves about Toronto, only to fail miserably
Rob Ford made his triumphant return to CBC Radio this morning (of course, nothing tops his previous appearance ). In an interview...
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The chief vs. the mayor: Bill Blair gets a two-year option for budget cuts (but he isn’t happy about it)
Bill Blair is either incredibly gutsy or a little bit crazy. At a special police board meeting yesterday, the chief maintained his...
City News
Rob Ford distracts masses from real issues by making more bad life choices
Yesterday, news broke that police chief Bill Blair could be risking his career—oh, never mind. Rob Ford ’ s been caught using...
City News
Look out, greedy corporate types—New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement is coming to the Big Smoke to protest you
Word is protesters are planning to camp out on Bay Street in the coming weeks. But because Occupy Toronto organizers didn’t...
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City News
Standoff between Bill Blair and Rob Ford now officially more exciting than the provincial election
According to reports in the Toronto Star, Bill Blair seems to be gambling his job on the hopes that Rob Ford will publicly...
City News
Police chief versus mayor: Bill Blair takes on Rob Ford over budget cuts
Every city department is being forced to reckon with major budget cuts—just as Rob Ford instructed earlier this year. Most...
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
She who cures all: Q&A with Dhun Noria
For over 30 years as a doctor, Dhun Noria has battled disease. As the newest citizen member of the police board, she’s turning...
City News
Confidence-inspiring TTC budget found $24 million with haste and blue pen
The way that Rob Ford and Karen Stintz hastily announced and then de-announced the TTC fare hike left a lot of city hall observers...
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Rob Ford introduces his first budget. Here are the highlights and lowlights
As we’ve already mentioned , Rob Ford introduced his budget at a morning press conference. There will be arguments aplenty over...
City News
Toronto police enjoying a very special TGIF this week
More than anyone else in this city, the Toronto police (or at least their media people) are probably ready for this week to come...
City News
Ontario Ombudsman calls G20 fence “illegal,” “likely unconstitutional”
Not all the blame for G20 abuses needs to be heaped on Bill Blair —it looks like the Ontario government may come in for some...
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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...
City News
Bill Blair deeply regrets the plain meaning of his words
Earlier this week, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair put his foot in his mouth and bit down, hard, during an interview on CBC’s...
City News
G20 update: police chief Bill Blair opens mouth, inserts foot
Earlier this week, Toronto’s chief of police Bill Blair was on CBC’s Metro Morning with Matt Galloway when he made an odd...
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Timing is everything: G20 security bill was so massive because cops were given “short notice”
In the seemingly endless merry-go-round that is the G20 blame game, we've been presented with numerous scapegoats. Was the huge...
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Ontario announces inquiry into G20 fence law that is totally not related to the G20
When is an inquiry into the G20 not really an inquiry into the G20? When the province announces it’s going to appoint a...
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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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