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Rob Ford gets chewed out over Woodbine Live’s lack of progress
On BlogTO yesterday, a longtime Etobicoke-North resident verbally smoked Rob Ford over the Woodbine Live project—you know, the...
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Municipal election spoiler: Rob Ford wants a full slate of candidates in 2014
The next municipal election is still more than two years away, but Rob Ford is already talking strategy. Speaking on his radio...
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Reaction Roundup: what the pundits are saying about Rob Ford’s humiliating Sheppard defeat
Though Rob Ford did everything he could think of (short of making a pie chart, at least), his dream of a Sheppard subway extension...
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Council votes for LRT on Sheppard Avenue, Rob Ford stalks off to his office to sulk
After months of debate and some memorable hissy fits from Rob Ford, city council has voted 24-19 in favour of an LRT line on...
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QUOTED: Doug Ford engages in a little monkey business during the Sheppard subway debate
—The reliably voluble Doug Ford earlier today, expressing frustration with his fellow councillors as the Sheppard Avenue transit...
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Rob Ford’s allies go rogue just ahead of the Sheppard transit vote
As city council heads into the big Sheppard transit vote, we bring you some final evidence that Rob Ford has lost control of his...
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Rob Granatstein: how city hall tries—and fails—to tackle the systemically screwed-up Toronto taxi industry
Toronto’s taxi industry has been a mess for more than 50 years. As a passenger, you feel it as soon as you slide your bum onto...
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Exclusive golf clubs are actually going to pay their taxes...soonish
Just in time for pseudo-summer, today’s Toronto Star returns to a strange tax situation involving nine exclusive country clubs...
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Rob Ford’s newest enemy: expert transit panels
Even after all his AstroTurfing and truth bending (or whatever you want to call this), things look bad for Rob Ford’ s subway...
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The Anti-Ford: Kristyn Wong-Tam believes Toronto is in better shape than you’re being told
In her first year on city council, Kristyn Wong-Tam hogged the spotlight with proposals to ban shark fin soup, save bike lanes and...
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Rob Ford would prefer that councillors not buy office supplies—especially fancy ones
After the release of city council’s expense reports on Friday, Rob Ford expressed his usual moral indignation over some...
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Has Doug Ford finally become a political handicap for Rob Ford?
Doug Ford’ s antics are finally catching up to him—and his brother. According to a nice piece in the Globe and Mail...
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Karen Stintz triumphs over Rob Ford (again)—though it may not be the coup it seems
Yesterday, council voted 29-15 —a solid majority—in favour of Karen Stintz’ s plan to blow up the nine-councillor transit...
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Karen Stintz moves to dissolve the TTC board, while Rob and Doug Ford back a citizens-only proposal
When making political decisions worthy of careful consideration and consultation, it’s apparently best to do so off the cuff and...
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Rob Ford and Karen Stintz agree to keep city councillors in control of the TTC board
TTC chair Karen Stintz and Rob Ford have reportedly reached a compromise on the composition of the TTC board, which currently...
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Toronto residents are paying more taxes than they have to—on purpose!
When city councillors floated the idea of voluntary taxes last year, we couldn’t tell if they were making a sincere...
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Will Rob Ford’s Sheppard subway fantasy die on March 15?
The long-running saga of Rob Ford’ s Sheppard subway dream looks like it will finally reach a not-so-surprising...
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Rob Ford’s re-election campaign seems to be off to a good start, continuing the imaginary fight for subways
The Globe and Mail says the conflicting messages from Dalton McGuinty and Rob Ford on the transit file are enough to make the two...
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Rob Ford and brother Doug now have their own talk radio show (seriously)
We already knew that Rob Ford prefers to do even the smallest of jobs himself, like, say, moving a pile of sand. Now, it appears...
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With Gary Webster’s sacking, Ford’s allies somehow made a hero out of a civil servant
As expected, five transit commissioners voted yesterday to oust TTC chief general manager Gary Webster, whose penchant for...
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Confidence Man: how Glen Murray is positioning himself to grab the reins of political power
The famously gay former mayor of Winnipeg was lured to Toronto by a group of backroom nabobs and remade as an influential member...
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Two of Rob Ford’s most loyal, most fiscally conservative friends quarrel over money
Doug Ford and Denzil Minnan-Wong are having a bit of a tiff over whether or not Build Toronto executives should make lots of money...
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The prospect of a new casino divides councillors along urban/suburban lines (what else is new?)
Meeting in their various community councils on Tuesday, Toronto city councillors discussed the possibility of opening a casino in...
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QUOTED: Doug Ford, getting all potty-mouthed about transit (once again)
That’s councillor Doug Ford , claiming that suburban councillors who opposed Rob Ford ’s transit plan are now being inundated...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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
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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
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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
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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