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Lloyd Robertson to retire. We name five improbable replacements
Veteran news anchor Lloyd Robertson has announced his retirement as anchor of CTV's nightly news, effective late next year. There...
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What the Elephants Know
On the morning of November 30, at around 7:45, three keepers entered the elephant enclosure at the Toronto Zoo to begin their...
City News
Wait—street hockey is illegal in Toronto? No wonder our kids are fat
Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett was at Yonge and Dundas when Sidney Crosby scored the gold-medal goal for Canada back in...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Parts and Labour, Parkdale’s new bar-club-restaurant-art gallery-wine bar
For many residents of Parkdale, the opening of Parts and Labour at the Roncy end of Queen West means one of two things: here’s a...
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Kyle Rae holds city-funded farewell bash? The Sun is there
Downtown city councillor Kyle Rae is bidding adieu to municipal politics after almost 20 years in the clamshell, and decided to...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti’s Kyle Rae jokes more interesting than his waterfront plan
In his mayoral campaign, Giorgio Mammoliti has proposed a war against spray paint , a tween curfew and a Freudian redesign of...
City News
The city releases secret to cancelling parking tickets: pretty much any excuse works
After what sounds like years of conspiracies and cover-ups, drivers finally have a shot against the sneaky tactics of parking...
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Mayoral race to Toronto: would you be more interested if we threw in John Tory?
We’re not sure whether it’s a sign of inevitable Ford fatigue or just a slow news day, but the Toronto Star is running two...
City News
Never there: the adventures of our errant councillors
It might seem that our city councillors would get into less trouble if they'd just stop showing up at work. At least then they...
City News
Victoria Day in Toronto: even the TTC assaults involve fireworks
Sometimes, it must be really terrible to be a TTC employee. If they are not getting robbed , spat on or heckled , somebody thinks...
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The best of Rebel Mayor: the funniest quips from city hall’s mystery tweeter, who was unmasked (sort of) this week
The Rebel Mayor situation, the municipal election's only fun gossip story so far, may have ended before it was spoken of outside...
City News
Mayoral debate quickly turns to garbage
Last night, there was what felt like the 2,036,025,698th debate between the six major candidates to replace David Miller . This...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti may bill city for legal fees totalling $92,276
City hall pays for a large number of very skilled professionals to keep it from doing stupid things: planners to keep it from...
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Paula Fletcher accidentally kills bike lanes she championed
According to city clerk John Elvidge , the buttons that city councillors—including Paula Fletcher —use to vote are about two...
City News
Is Rob Ford Toronto’s Sarah Palin? A five-point comparison
Rob Ford is in trouble again for blabbing sensitive information to the public. This time, his critics on city council are accusing...
Food & Drink
10 a.m. drinking passes: city councillors officially become our enablers
Finally, change we can believe in. City council has officially rolled back the time at which people can start drinking by one hour...
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Markham votes to build over “best farmland in Canada”
The town of Markham has spent much of the last six months debating a proposal that would have forbidden the development of...
City News
Public bikes to hit Toronto streets next May
City council has given the thumbs up to a bike-sharing program that should see about 1,000 bikes set up for public use throughout...
City News
Howard Moscoe: a retrospective of antics
Last week, we saw some strange antics from city councillor Howard Moscoe . First, he invited drivers to support transit with those...
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Food & Drink
The Boardwalk Pub could dominate refreshment sales along Toronto’s eastern beaches
As any visitor to Woodbine Beach knows, there is only one spot nearby to grab a bite: the Boardwalk Pub . If city council approves...
City News
Rob Ford’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
After putting yesterday behind him, Rob Ford is no doubt having a big helping of TGIF. First there was the minor fiasco of a...
City News
A brief history of the most explosive f-bombs in Canadian politics
This week’s f-bomb, dropped by Senator Nancy Ruth, might have raised a few eyebrows, but public representatives using the f-word...
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This shit just got real: Toronto Zoo looking to make crappy deal that everyone is happy about
As the third-largest public zoo in the world, the Toronto Zoo is probably also the third-largest source of publicly funded animal...
City News
Strange bedfellows: with a plan similar to Thomson’s and Ford’s, Rossi turns the subway love-in into a threesome
It feels like it was just yesterday that Howard Moscoe was whining that none of the mayoral candidates was running as the champion...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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Guelph is having a moment
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A rare opportunity to own a custom-built masterpiece in the heart of Lawrence Park beautifully designed by Gray Smith and Arca Design for the most discerning buyer