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Proposed TTC cuts to affect 250,000 riders
As the February 2 TTC meeting approaches, we’re getting more and more data about just how big the proposed cut to the city’s...
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Dog’s best friend: the story behind the Toronto Humane Society’s mutiny, raid and shutdown
Tim Trow had one sacred rule for the Toronto Humane Society: save every pet. But the shelter grew overcrowded and chaotic, the...
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Rob Ford’s chief of staff leaving mayor’s office, but will still be around to kick a union or two
The Globe and Mail ’s Kelly Grant broke the news late Friday night that Nick Kouvalis , Rob Ford ’s chief of staff and the...
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New poll shows Torontonians’ hate of LRTs has been greatly exaggerated
Since election day, the debate over transit in Toronto has been reduced to a logical fallacy: people voted for Rob Ford . Ford...
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Cars likely to win yet another battle as Adam Giambrone’s parking legacy on Dundas West comes almost completely undone
One of the last things Adam Giambrone did before events transpired to take him out of the race for mayor was remove parking spaces...
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Our Fare Lady: Q&A with Karen Stinz, the newly appointed TTC chair
Complaints about TTC customer service, possible strikes, delays—Stintz says she’s ready to take it all on You’re one of few...
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Pan Am fun begins early as costs double and city council freaks out
Toronto was pretty excited about winning the competition to host the 2015 Pan American Games , and why not? It wasn’t the...
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A sad end to 30 bizarre, horrible hours in Toronto
Starting yesterday morning and moving on into today, Toronto has had a 30-hour period that can only be described as tragic and...
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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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TTC fare hike dead in the water: city finds cash to freeze riders’ transit costs
Yesterday we said the optics of cutting taxes on motorists while raising the price of public transit are “so bad it’s hard to...
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Will Toronto’s rushed 2011 budget have major cuts? Depends on what your definition of “major” is
City staff are busy trying to put a budget together now that the mayor has directed them to find a way to freeze property...
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Five things we learned from Rob Ford’s year-end interview with the Globe
The mayor’s first big meeting with city council was a marathon affair in which he got everything he wanted . Rob Ford ’s plan...
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Who is more deluded: Rob Ford or the labour unions?
Rob Ford’s first—and nastiest—fight will be with organized labour. The unions are saying “bring it” The garbage strike...
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In a marathon session, council gives Rob Ford everything he wants
Despite some early bets that the mayor wouldn’t get everything he wanted out of council, Rob Ford has so far gotten everything...
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Rob Ford’s to-do list for today: slash budgets, cut taxes, declare TTC an essential service
Toronto’s city council tackles three of Rob Ford ’s biggest priorities today: cutting councillors’ office...
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Last month’s news comes to council later this week: “Too Asian” never dies
Sit down and let us tell you a story of long ago. Back in the mists of time—November—a magazine ran a regrettable article with...
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Death of Transit City leads to surprisingly widespread grieving
We already knew that the allies of former mayor David Miller were angry over the announced death of Transit City and getting ready...
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On its second day of work, council gets down to the important stuff: food and bruised egos
If yesterday was any indication, Rob Ford is in for a long four years. As the council met to approve choices for who got what...
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Toronto’s left-wing pinkos prove surprisingly entrepreneurial
It's been 24 hours since Don Cherry opened the first city council meeting of the Rob Ford era by calling out bike-riding...
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Allegations of vote fixing make Mississauga politics momentarily interesting
Shortly after election day, a few Mississauga councillors got a letter from a person known only as “Fred” that claimed the...
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What else can we say: Oshawa man abandons city council seat to keep TTC gig
This story leaves us wondering just how cushy, exactly, the average TTC job really is. Apparently, nobody explained to Mike...
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As expected, Don Cherry is the turd in the punch bowl at council’s first meeting
The opening of Toronto City Council’s first meeting was surprisingly amicable and friendly as Rob Ford took the oath of office...
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Rob Ford meets with the anti-Ford, aka Dalton McGuinty
Rob Ford and Dalton McGuinty are about as different politicians are one could find working within a single kilometre of each...
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Transit showdown brewing as rumours fly that Rob Ford will try to kill Transit City tomorrow
Despite some speculation that Rob Ford was going to make peace with Transit City after his election win, the National Post is...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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