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Rob Ford continues to ignore city hall rules; still, his allies steadfastly support him
In the midst of a heated debate at city hall, important things are sometimes forgotten—like good manners, logic or...
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Is Rob Ford willing to, gulp, compromise on the TCHC fire sale proposal?
Rob Ford usually regards compromise with the same sense of scorn he reserves for cyclists, public sector unions and above-grade...
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Karen Stintz praises and supports Rob Ford, who responds by calling her a backstabber
Even if he wanted to, it looks like Rob Ford won’t be able to can Karen Stintz as chair of the TTC, and—perhaps...
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Dalton McGuinty says council is supreme; Tim Hudak says it should be ignored
Apparently, no amount of midnight subway riding will help Rob Ford convince Dalton McGuinty to contravene city council and build...
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Quoted: Frank Di Giorgio says something dumb about the “nation’s capital”
—Councillor Frank Di Giorgio, speaking out against LRTs at yesterday’s council meeting, appears to have gotten a little...
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Rob Ford doesn’t get his way at council—so he deems the whole proceedings “irrelevant”
After a lengthy special council meeting to debate the city’s overarching transit plan, where Rob Ford and his allies repeatedly...
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Toronto city council asks to leave the OMB; developers aren’t into it
Buried under the talk of the city’s transit battle is news that city councillors asked the province to exempt Toronto from the...
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Will some councillors vote for Rob Ford’s transit plan at their own ward’s expense?
Rob Ford will likely endure another public defeat at a special council meeting tomorrow, this time over his beloved Sheppard...
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Marcus Gee wants Metrolinx to endorse a transit plan (for crying out loud!)
After enduring a crummy PowerPoint presentation from Metrolinx, apparently, city columnist Marcus Gee is a little cranky. In the...
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Karen Stintz calls for a special council meeting to kibosh Rob Ford’s transit plan
With the support of 23 fellow councillors , Karen Stintz boldly called for a special council meeting to confirm the city’s...
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Local experts blast Rob Ford’s transit plan, turning his government-as-business rhetoric against him
Just in case the mayor is feeling a little too confident after city hall’s victory over CUPE 416 in the recent labour...
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Millionaires Doug and Rob Ford are “dead against” city councillors getting any kind of pay increase
Doug Ford says he and the mayor won’t be accepting a pay raise in 2012, ostensibly an act of selfless devotion to protecting the...
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Rob Ford’s powers as mayor may not be as grand as he thinks they are
With Rob Ford’ s transit plans poised to grind to a rather embarrassing halt after a local law firm, solicited by Councillor Joe...
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Mike Del Grande jokes about millions of dollars just for a few LOLs
Last week, silver-tongued Mike Del Grande asked the executive committee to redirect $16.4 million in funding from Regent Park to...
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Quoted: Rob Ford on “Joe” Stalin, and the city councillors that are apparently just like him
Like his right-hand man Giorgio Mammoliti, Rob Ford can smell the communists in his midst. Ford made the remarks (“Joe”...
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Rob Ford’s executive committee is no longer all-powerful as city council enters a new era
Either the magical powers of Giorgio Mammoliti ’s thumb are waning or the mayor’s executive committee is quickly realizing it...
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Karen Stintz picks a fight with council over $5 million in TTC money (and then promptly loses it)
When she’s not busy undermining Rob Ford’ s grand transit plan, Karen Stintz has been busy feuding with her fellow councillors...
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Apparently, mere conversations are now evidence of progress in the city labour dispute
Negotiations between city hall and CUPE Local 416 are continuing this week, as the city creeps slowly toward an ever more likely...
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Savvy backroom politics and creepy tactics were behind council’s big budget victory
Apparently the fight to save city services might have been won somewhere between the council chamber and the city hall...
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Karen Stintz kills council’s buzz with her plans for the saved transit cash
By our count, the dizzying thrill of victory for council’s lefties and centrists lasted less than 24 hours. TTC chair—and...
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Giorgio Mammoliti resurrects one of Rob Ford’s campaign promises: cutting city council in half
Apparently, looking to waste a little bit more of everyone’s time, Giorgio Mammoliti says he’ll soon move to reduce the number...
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Mike Del Grande isn’t resigning—he just wants to give up his job and be replaced soon
The budget chief’s hands may be “shot” from all the typing he does every day, but apparently he isn’t resigning (or at...
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Reaction roundup: city hall votes on the budget
A no-confidence vote, pepper spray and jellyfish; in other words, a look at what the media, protesters and the Twittersphere had...
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In the wake of the budget defeat, Rob Ford compares his opponents to dogs
After a large portion of his proposed budget was dismantled, Rob Ford, ever gracious, did what any classy politician would do: he...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
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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
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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
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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
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Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
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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
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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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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!”
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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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