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Total Recall: Rocco Rossi wants Torontonians to be able to sack their councillors by petition
We'll be the first to acknowledge that election campaigns are fun. There's shouting, polls, shouting, the occasional policy...
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Food & Drink
Go now: Ossington’s Salt Wine Bar could soon be closed for licence infractions
Salt Wine Bar, a small, excellent new tapas place on Ossington Avenue, might not survive its first month in business, after a...
City News
A week in Toronto council: flagpoles, ice rinks and doubling down on crazy
Racing to meet a deadline—that pesky election that we've heard so much about—Toronto's city council is hard at work trying to...
City News
From the “hilarity ensues” files: suburban councillor insults her suburban voters in election year
Here's a lesson a councillor shouldn't need after their 22nd year in office: don't insult constituents when heading into the most...
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Rob Ford’s frenemies on council eager to emphasize the “fre” part
Mayoral front-runner Rob Ford doesn't have a lot of people he could call friends on council, or so the story goes. Just yesterday...
City News
Rob Ford campaigns against city council lunches (insert ironic joke about Ford’s waistline here)
Next up on Rob Ford’s chopping block: lunch. The mayoral candidate continued his legacy of bottom-line nitpicking (and pissing...
City News
As Rob Ford is punished again, councillors contemplate the Mayor Ford era, plan coup
Another day, another report from the integrity commissioner that Rob Ford did something he shouldn't have. In this case, Ford...
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Rob Ford calls out Adam Vaughan: “Be a man” and join the mayoral race
Speaking with John Oakley today on AM640, mayoral race front-runner Rob Ford made a wish: for Adam Vaughan to join the mayor's...
Real Estate News
Guerrilla activists hack 85 Toronto billboards, replacing ads with art
Four months after Banksy's stop in Toronto, another group of guerrilla art activists has taken to the streets—only this...
City News
Toronto councillor declares war on kite-based violence
If asked to name the most pressing concern regarding violence against both people and wildlife in the city, people might name...
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City News
Latest mayoral debate: Ford opposes immigration and giving credit to Suzan Hall, proposes scrapping the land transfer tax
With the mayoral election just over two months away, the front-running candidates are upping their game when it comes to the...
City News
Six things our city politicians achieved in one day
Boy, let it never be said that the city can't buckle down and get some work done when there's a deadline looming. Yesterday's...
Culture
Good news for arts spending, as long as Rob Ford doesn’t get elected
Good news is a rare treasure in the arts community in these post-recession days, which is why yesterday's city hall executive...
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Real Estate News
What do former mayoral candidates do with their free time? Just ask Giorgio Mammoliti about his giant pole
Giorgio Mammoliti has been quiet since his departure from the mayoral race, which is a shame: we'll never forget his wacky YouTube...
City News
City tries, fails to privatize ski hills
This goes a long way to explaining why the city still owns golf courses: sometimes it's hard to get rid of things, even when you...
City News
Question: does the mayor deserve a $16,000 raise? Answer: it’s an election year
Received wisdom dictates that it's never a good time for a politician to get a raise. For this reason, the city has tried to take...
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Rob Ford endorses, is endorsed by pride-dissing, anti-gay-marriage pastor. Hilarity ensues
The story of the day, as far as city politics goes, is Rob Ford 's endorsement of Wendell Brereton —the pastor of Glorious...
City News
Marginal charges, maximal outrage: the Sun takes on bag fees
We noted yesterday that the Toronto Sun , in high dudgeon over city councillors' spending habits, was busy making a mountain out...
City News
Fun with budget numbers: most city councillors have been prudent with cash, but the Sun slams them anyway
True to form, the Toronto Sun leads today with ( yet another ) story on the spending habits of Toronto’s city councillors. The...
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All five leading mayoral candidates finally agree on one thing: no party politics in city council
Last week we noted that city council is going to have a decidedly less morgue-like Wall Street Journal since there are 11 open...
City News
Wave of retirements to leave our city council smelling unusually un-morgue-like
Keen observers of city council have been noting that Toronto's going to be run by a pretty different bunch of folks come...
City News
CFRB indulges our fantasies by pretending there are only two candidates for mayor
In the gruelling, seemingly endless slog for mayor, Toronto’s voters have roughly 30 different candidates to consider (no...
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CP24’s third mayoral debate actually has some fireworks
The five front-running mayoral candidates all gathered around CP24’s table last night to discuss Toronto’s most important...
City News
Spadina subway expansion might be delayed because of obscure rule; city council appears to lose its mind
It's bad enough that a much-needed expansion of Toronto's transit system is being delayed because the province can't cough up the...
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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
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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