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Austerity, shmausterity: Toronto Public Library asks for a $5.51-million increase
With less than a week before Rob Ford is sworn in, the new powers that be must be looking for major savings in the city budget...
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Ford’s final picks are out: council committee heads now lefty-free, ready to get to work
Toronto’s dailies have already picked over the early leaks of which councillors would be appointed to which committees under...
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Six things we learned from David Miller’s mass of exit interviews
Outgoing mayor David Miller seems to have been a busy bee yesterday, as all four of Toronto’s major dailies have exit interviews...
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Key to getting a top gig in the Ford mayoralty? Endorse Ford, or be Karen Stintz
We’re just over a week away from the first days of the Rob Ford mayoralty, and the buzz over whom he’ll be relying on to herd...
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Despite what Rob Ford says, light rail is best for Toronto: report
Turns out that David Miller ’s baby may not be as ugly as some were beginning to think . A new report says that Transit City is...
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Just like in their old jobs, departing Toronto councillors don’t know what to do with themselves
The Star has done a decent roundup of what Toronto’s departing councillors are going to do with their lives now that they’ve...
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Comparing cab rates: Toronto has the 20th most expensive taxis in the world
We all know that taxis are expensive in Toronto, but today’s Globe goes one step further and proves it . According to the paper...
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Councillors’ expenses for 2010: city hall’s five winners and five losers
The city has released the data on councillors' expenses for 2010: because of the election, their annual allowances are less, and...
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Kyle Rae vs. the Sun, round 97. Once more, with leather
The Toronto Sun and Kyle Rae , the outgoing councillor for Ward 27, have a simple relationship based on mutual loathing and...
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On the chopping block: we put odds on which city-funded projects will survive Ford’s first term
One thing we know about Rob Ford is that he hates it when the city—pardon us, his city—spends money on things that the private...
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Pandas are coming to Toronto—for $11 million
Giorgio Mammoliti is finally going to get his bears. For the past nine years, the city councillor and mayoral also-ran has been...
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How Ford-friendly will the new council be? A councillor-by-councillor analysis
“[ Rob Ford ] won’t be able to pass gas without the permission of council.” That was city council bomb-thrower Howard Moscoe...
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Swing to the right: it’s a whole new Toronto as Rob Ford and many right-wingers win offices at city hall
The election spanned 11 months, but counting the ballots took only a few minutes. At 8:08 p.m.—480 seconds after polls...
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Bixi bike-share program has 1,000 members, thanks to…a car company?
Toronto has been pushing to get 1,000 people to sign up for the Bixi bike-sharing program before November 1, or Bixi would lose...
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One week out, Toronto’s election gets crazier by the day
The polls will close in just over a week, but the election race in Toronto keeps getting odder and odder. Here’s a roundup of...
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George Smitherman proposes expert council to reform city; existing city council apparently unqualified
Yesterday, while racking up the endorsement of former mayor John Sewell , George Smitherman unveiled his latest idea for reforming...
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Like magic, TTC and Queen’s Park find some common ground on Presto
One of the most bizarrely acrimonious fights in the city over the past few months has been not over who pays for transit, or how...
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Mr. Popular: Why Rob Ford’s winning over Toronto
By any measure he’s a terrible candidate for mayor. But his obsession with cost-cutting and his contempt for City Hall have pushed him to the front of the pack. The unlikely allure of Rob Ford
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Rob Ford comes out against marathons in the streets
Rob Ford has already pledged to get cyclists and streetcars off Toronto’s streets—and it looks like marathons are next on his...
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Ford campaign identifies two biggest threats to victory: opposition, Rob Ford
With his thunderous lead in the polls, there’s almost nothing that can stop Rob Ford from getting what he wants come election...
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Showdown at the Boardwalk Café: Tuggs owner gets an earful from local candidate
There are many reasons readers might be familiar with Sandra Bussin , councillor for Beaches–East York. Some may remember the...
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The Rob Ford echo: mayoral front-runners suddenly sound a lot like Rob Ford
With Rob Ford solidly in the lead of the mayoral race, the other four candidates are all trying to figure out how to claw down his...
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Rocco Rossi appeals to non-voters in well thought-out plan
The Rocco Rossi campaign is doing its level best to introduce new ideas to the mayoral race: after announcing his support for...
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City hall now with fewer erection jokes: Howard Moscoe is retiring
Long-time city councillor Howard Moscoe is best known for his mouth: whether slagging Mel Lastman (something Moscoe started doing...
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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
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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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