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We speculate about how the vote will break down when the Jarvis bike lanes go in front of council next month
The Jarvis bike lanes will be on the city hall chopping block next month, and when the vote goes down we’ll be watching. The...
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Public works committee votes to scrap Jarvis Street bike lanes
Jarvis bike lanes, we hardly knew ye. Yesterday, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee voted in favour of removing eight...
City News
Rob Ford wages his own war on the car—no, really: he thinks cars illegally parked in handicapped spots are bad
We assumed that Toronto’s war on the car ended when Rob Ford won the election. But apparently the good mayor himself is willing...
City News
Rob Ford says no to (free!) nurses, once again turning down (free!) provincial dollars for health
A pattern appears to be forming when it comes to Rob Ford and public health resources: first, the province offers the city...
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Toronto councillor tweets about “hot chicks,” promptly embarrasses himself
Sure, our public servants are human beings, too—they have their foibles and they make mistakes. But the fun part about living in...
City News
Rob Ford, the Liberator? Toronto’s mayor takes on the city’s love of rules
Here’s something that might actually span the political chasm in this town: getting rid of some of Toronto’s more absurd rules...
City News
Councillor loses his piggy, prompting city council to make jokes that were actually kind of funny
In an attempt to remind people of the seriousness of the city’s dire fiscal straits, Toronto budget chief Mike Del Grande has...
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Is council’s vote to sell off 22 TCHC assets the beginning of a Toronto social housing fire sale?
A day after Mayor Rob Ford mused about selling Casa Loma , he and a large majority of councillors voted to divest city hall of a...
City News
Apparently the Mastercard Centre for Hockey Excellence is a financial sinkhole
Hockey seems to be the topic of the day. First, the Vancouver Canucks get thumped by the Boston Bruins in game six of the Stanley...
City News
Five things we learned about Doug Ford from Saturday’s Globe and Mail
Doug Ford is a toughie for Toronto press corps to write about. Officially, he’s just another councillor, and a really green one...
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With big-time budget problems, Toronto can’t afford another big-time tax giveaway (imagine that)
In his mayoral campaign, Rob Ford promised that he would scrap both the vehicle registration tax and the land transfer tax , those...
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Costco gas station is causing massive traffic snarls, proposes to fix things by making them worse
Everybody knows what a Boxing Day door-crasher sale at a big box store is like, right? Now imagine that chaos, only with a crowd...
Food & Drink
Glenn De Baeremaeker proposes city-wide shark fin ban, taking a cue from…Brantford?
A couple weeks ago, the city of Brantford—yes, that Brantford—raised eyebrows when city councillors voted unanimously to ban...
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Mike Layton promises to start his own cycling committee—sadly, tree house not included
Rob Ford may be trying to kill off most of the advisory committees and task forces at city hall , but some more committee-friendly...
City News
The Jarvis bike lane brouhaha was such fractious fun last summer that city hall is bringing it back
Last year’s mayoral election was chock full of wacky issues—the 48-hour scandal over whether Rob Ford likes immigrants or not...
City News
The war on fun takes aim at a new target: city patios
City council was busy junking 2010’s harmonization of city zoning bylaws yesterday—but as the Toronto Star points out , that...
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An acrimonious city council claims another victim: the Fort York bridge bites the dust
Well, that’s that: after trying to bring the issue back to council, Mike Layton and the contingent of other councillors...
City News
Council votes to start the trash privatization process—but is the mayor already losing his magic touch?
Yesterday’s council debate started, fittingly, with a little trash talk. Rob Ford unleashed his inner loudmouth (which is...
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City hall storms Casa Loma’s gates! (Well, sort of)
While the rest of the city has managed to go about its business without really noticing, there's a long-running feud taking place...
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Get ready for something ugly, angry and mostly pointless—get ready for the Ward 9 by-election
The news broke Friday afternoon that City Clerk Ulli Watkiss had decided not to go forward with an appeal of the Ontario Superior...
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Critics cry foul after Ford spams supporters
In anticipation of the cuts to be made by the Rob Ford administration, the city is undertaking a review of its services. Because...
Culture
Jeff Melanson, Rob Ford’s special adviser on arts and culture, to leave Toronto for Banff
Jeff Melanson , we hardly knew ye. After six months on the job, Rob Ford ’s special adviser on arts and culture, who is also the...
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Apparently, Queen’s Park doesn’t hold a grudge—Joe Pantalone lands a spot at Waterfront Toronto
Turns out it isn’t necessary to run for a seat under Dalton McGuinty ’ s banner to wash away the bad taste left over from the...
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Could the solution to the city’s taxi trouble be worse than the original problem?
Toronto cabbies don’t have it easy—and not just because so many of them are wildly overqualified for their current jobs. While...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Toronto Life
’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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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