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QUOTED: Bill Blair sidesteps the question of whether Rob Ford will be charged after more shady details surface
—Police Chief Bill Blair, not really answering the question on many Torontonians’ lips : why hasn’t Rob Ford been charged...
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The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
City News
QUOTED: Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick explains why all Canadians secretly adore Rob Ford
— Slate senior editor and Canadian expat Dahlia Lithwick, arguing that Rob Ford embodies our oh-so-polite country’s...
City News
Rob Ford, Figurehead: Rounding up the weirdest events at Monday’s very weird city council meeting
When Rob Ford became mayor in 2010, it was an unlikely ascent for an avowed council contrarian. In a series of humiliating votes...
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Rob Ford’s approval rating drops a whopping 10 per cent in one month—and that was before today’s crack video bombshell
On a Halloween marked by media frenzy, crack video revelations (it exists, in case you missed it) and a Twitterlanche of witty...
City News
The five weirdest metaphors Toronto city councillors used to describe the Scarborough subway
After four years, countless political squabbles and at least six competing proposals, Rob Ford’ s Scarborough subway dream is...
City News
Philip Preville: Why Kathleen Wynne needs Rob Ford
If Kathleen Wynne is to achieve anything for Toronto—and transit is top of the list—she needs Rob Ford to knock around Back in...
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Humber Valley Village residents enlist an architect—and Rob Ford— to fight a condo development
A proposal from First Capital Realty to build a 65,000-square-foot mixed-used development on the site of the Humbertown strip mall...
City News
Reaction Roundup: council’s petty and ultimately useless transit debate
As soon as Karen Stintz opened the Pandora’s Box of taxes to fund transit—a discussion Ford had fought to put off—last...
City News
The threat of a big-box development is still alive in Kensington Market—but so is Casa Acoreana
The developer hoping to build a big-box development on the western edge of Kensington Market isn’t giving up. After both the...
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Olivia Chow is writing a memoir, fueling speculation about a mayoral run
Olivia Chow, who has been toying with reporters about a possible mayoral run for months, is penning a memoir that’s supposed to...
Food & Drink
Hero Burger is going to run the new snack bar at Nathan Phillips Square
After a surprisingly contentious three-hour debate, city council has decided to give Hero Certified Burgers the contract for the...
City News
Sunshine List: how much Rob Ford, Paul Godfrey and Chris Spence earned in 2012
Each year, Queen’s Park releases the sunshine list, a catalogue of all the Ontario public servants who made $100,000 or...
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Is the Toronto casino dead? Politicos weigh in
The chances of a splashy Toronto casino slimmed significantly yesterday when premier Kathleen Wynne nixed a plan to give the city...
City News
Quoted: Rob Ford on a horrific consequence of councillor term limits
–Mayor Rob Ford, who served three terms as councillor for Etobicoke’s Ward 2, on one of the reasons he thinks voters, rather...
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High Rollers: we break down five different billion-dollar plans for a casino in downtown Toronto
City councillors could vote on whether to allow a downtown casino as soon as next month, and they, along with the rest of...
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Toronto’s Best Tweeters: top Twitter feeds from local entertainers, athletes and media personalities
Toronto’s Twitter-happy celebrity set supplies a constant stream of bon mots, feuds and photo scandals, so choosing our...
Real Estate News
Suburban real estate adventures: Brampton monster homes and Scarborough rooming houses
A bungalow-heavy neighbourhood in Brampton is seething over a partially finished 6,600-square-foot house (which the Toronto Star...
City News
The Parlour Game: a behind-the-scenes tour of Toronto’s thriving rub ’n’ tug industry
Ivy glows like a 1930s starlet. She’s 27, with high, round cheekbones, rosebud lips and luminescent skin. She has worked at...
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Rob Ford’s friend count is dropping fast
Although Rob Ford is calling it the “best budget in Toronto’s history,” the 2013 budget process has certainly diminished the...
City News
Dumb and Dumber: the most idiotic things Giorgio Mammoliti and Rob Ford did during the budget debates
City council approved the 2013 operating budget just after noon today, and, despite $12-million in last-minute spending...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti’s most memorable gaffes, including the one that could end his political career
Although Giorgio Mammoliti leapt from Rob Ford’ s lurching bandwagon in November, the two city hall fixtures still have a lot in...
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Jose Canseco for Toronto mayor? The pros and cons of the ex-slugger running city hall
Toronto city politics hit a new level of crazy at just after one o’clock this morning, when legendary home run hitter and...
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QUOTED: Doug Ford gets smug that he and Adam Vaughan actually agree on something
—Private-sector investment buff Doug Ford, on why Adam Vaughan, one of the Ford camp’s most vociferous adversaries, has raised...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
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
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