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Rob Ford Crack-o-Meter: eager, new hires and money laundering
Rob Ford has skated through some humiliating situations and emerged relatively unscathed. The crack-smoking scandal, though, has...
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Rob Ford Photo LOLz: The Mayor’s Smiling, Suspender-Clad Staff Before The Exodus
Last Halloween, former Rob Ford staffer Brian Johnston tweeted this pic of the mayor’s entire team, who had a good-natured go at...
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Rob Ford’s Official Tweets Vs. Reality: a day-by-day comparison of the last two weeks
In the two weeks since news broke that Rob Ford (allegedly) smokes crack, the mayor has lost his temper, nearly a third of his...
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Rob Ford resigns!
Well, a Rob Ford resigned—State Senator Robert Ford from South Carolina. Psych! (Sometimes a joke is so good you just have to...
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Rob Ford Photo LOLz: An Etsy Tote That Slams The Mayor While Carrying Your Organic Veg
Torontonians are expressing their outrage over the scandal engulfing city hall in ways both creative and cute. Graffiti artists...
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Six defences of Rob Ford, from somewhat reasonable to completely crazytown
In a show of Ford Nation’s loyalty, Rob Ford still has more-or-less the same approval rating as before he became the world’s...
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Rob Ford Crack-o-Meter: an arrest, a rap song and what Rob Ford knew about the crack video
Rob Ford has skated through some humiliating situations and emerged relatively unscathed. The crack-smoking scandal, though, has...
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Rob Ford Photo LOLz: Rob and Doug Ford Become Bob and Doug McKenzie
Like many Canadians of a particular vintage, we have a nostalgic love for the fictional pair of classic Canadians Bob and Doug...
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Rob Ford Crack-o-Meter: the Toronto Sun screws up and Ford’s football coach is scrutinized
Rob Ford has skated through some humiliating situations and emerged relatively unscathed. The crack-smoking scandal, though, has...
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Rob Ford Photo LOLz: The Mayor Gets The Saddest Birthday Cake Ever
Mayor Rob Ford turned 44 yesterday. Instead of getting a big bag of crack, a new high school football coaching job or a respite...
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It’s Rob Ford’s birthday: 10 gifts for the man who has everything (and by everything, we mean a crack scandal)
Rob Ford probably didn’t want to spend his 44th birthday dodging the media, walking past vacant desks where trusted advisors...
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A cheat sheet on Rob Ford’s freefall, from his shrinking staff to the latest on the crack video
In the 11 days since Gawker broke the story that mayor Rob Ford (allegedly) likes to smoke a little crack in his drug dealer’s...
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Two of Rob Ford’s senior staffers, including his press secretary, have quit
Only four days after the mayor’s chief of staff Mark Towhey was fired , two more of Rob Ford’ s close advisors have quit. The...
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QUOTED: Rob Ford finally speaks up about whether he smokes crack cocaine
—Embattled mayor and meme-maker’s best friend Rob Ford on the Toronto Star and Gawker’ s allegations that he was caught on...
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Rob Ford fires Mark Towhey—his chief of staff and most trusted advisor
Rob Ford’ s crazy week just got crazier. Mark Towhey, the mayor’s chief of staff and according to many the brains behind team...
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Philip Preville: Does Toronto really need a $1-billion police force?
Zulfiqar Khimani holds the distinction of being Toronto’s most prolific parking enforcement officer. In the last five years he...
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The Top 10 Most Amazing Things About the Rob Ford Crack-Smoking Story (Assuming All Allegations Are True and All Videos Are Fully Authenticated)
Below, a countdown of the 10 craziest things about the Rob Ford crack-smoking brouhaha. 10. Gawker broke the story. 9. The Toronto...
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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...
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A tragicomic scrapbook of Rob Ford’s crazy, blunder-filled mayoralty
We expected a bumpy ride with Ford as mayor, but we weren’t prepared for a self-sabotaging Lindsay Lohan of politics. With a new...
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Video: Jimmy Kimmel pokes fun at Rob Ford for walking into a TV camera
Rob Ford had yet another bizarre run-in at city hall on Monday, when, rushing out of an executive committee meeting, he was smoked...
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Reaction Roundup: city hall insiders respond to allegations that Rob Ford has a drinking problem
The Toronto Star created a city-wide firestorm when its story about Rob Ford’ s alleged drinking problem hit newsstands...
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The
Toronto Star
asks: does Rob Ford have a drinking problem?
The Toronto Star took aim at Rob Ford once again this morning with a lengthy story alleging that the mayor struggles to control...
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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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Mayor In Waiting: an inside look at Olivia Chow’s political ambitions
Olivia Chow’s public mourning after Jack Layton’s death cast her in a new light: dignified, likeable and, well, mayoral. Toronto wants her to run, but does she want Toronto?
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
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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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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