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Rob Ford is just “sick” about kids being taught sex ed by teachers, rather than mayors
In a YouTube interview with former Sun News personality Ezra Levant , Rob Ford offered some thoughts on Ontario's controversial...
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John Tory thinks Toronto is, if not world class, at least “really really good”
The National Post got mayor and level-headed individual John Tory to weigh in on a continual source of civic anxiety: whether or...
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John Tory has an opinion about police carding, which is that he has no discernible opinion
At a Wednesday summit on black issues where new police chief Mark Saunders (who is black) came out firmly in favour of continuing...
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Toronto’s ombudsman says Rob Ford used city hall security officers like hired goons
A report by city ombudsman Fiona Crean, set to be released on Thursday, will detail several ways Rob Ford abused his power over...
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Will Toronto really adopt 30-kilometre-per-hour speed limits on residential streets?
THE IDEA Toronto has long flirted with the prospect of reducing the speed limits on its residential streets to 30 kilometres per...
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We should admire the Gardiner Expressway, not tear it down
First, a confession: I love the Gardiner Expressway, not for its utility but for its aesthetic beauty. I kid you not. I am...
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Six Degrees of John H. Tory: a peek at the high-powered Rolodex of our new Mayor McSchmooze
(images: John H. Tory by Markian Lozowchuk; Liz Tory, Slaight, Phillips, Peterson, Horn, Lind, Crombie, Mulroney, Campbell by...
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Doug Ford can’t legally be Rob Ford’s replacement, but he’s going to try it anyway
Doug Ford has now apparently made peace with the fact that he can't legally take over Ward 2 councillor duties while his brother...
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Mel Lastman gets some furniture-sales help from the mayor who made him look good
The goofball-mayor singularity has arrived. The National Post reports that Wednesday's Toronto Star contained a full-page...
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John Tory announces a plan to make life slightly more frustrating for raccoons
This morning, our mercifully boring mayor John Tory came as close as he will probably ever come to picking a fight with a specific...
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Doug Ford wants to fill his brother’s council seat, whether he’s allowed to or not
Rob Ford’ s cancer surgery in May will keep him in the hospital for a week or two, and "out of commission" for four months—and...
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Q&A: Barbara Hall, the ex-mayor and human rights commissioner who just can’t quit politics
Over the course of her long career, Barbara Hall has been (among other things) an activist, a lawyer, a city councillor, a...
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Rob Ford has to apologize for being racist a couple times
Next week's city council meeting will be the setting of another classic Rob Ford forced apology, as he owns up to a few racist...
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Doug Ford is peeved that John Tory won’t help pay off his campaign debt
Doug Ford told the Sun that he's very, very disappointed by John Tory' s decision not to attend a $300-a-ticket fundraiser, the...
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The brother of Sandro Lisi’s alleged crack-video extortion victim got shot on Tuesday
On Tuesday afternoon, a 21-year-old man named Ahmed Siyad was shot in the parking garage of a Toronto Community Housing high-rise...
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Rob Ford tries 31 times to derail John Tory’s budget
City council approved mayor John Tory' s first budget on Wednesday evening, but not before reckoning with a classic Rob Ford...
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Ten things Denzil Minnan-Wong can’t live without
The outspoken city councillor—and Toronto’s backup mayor—shares the 10 things he can’t live without
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Rob Ford is selling his crack hoodie on eBay, too
Rob Ford' s latest eBay auction is proof that the ex-mayor still knows how to push everyone's buttons. The new item, currently...
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Someone’s going to pay thousands of dollars for Rob Ford’s crack-confession tie
Rob Ford started putting all sorts of crap (sorry, "memorabilia" ) from his office on eBay last week, but it doesn't get any...
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Try as we might, we can’t ignore Rob Ford—and neither should John Tory
Promises, promises. John Tory assured us he would make city hall boring again. He even held up boredom as an ideal, the grand...
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Rob Ford gets kicked out of council chambers for (what else?) not apologizing for doing something wrong
It started as most things do with Rob Ford : with a dispute over a vanishingly small amount of money. At today's city council...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I get my Ford-hating coworkers to stop mocking me?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a supporter of the Fords. When people badmouthed them at work, I stood up for them. Now that Tory’s...
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Rob Ford has a sibling we’ve never heard of who’s “a Muslim,” he says
On Wednesday, the media learned that Rob Ford may, at one point in time, have briefly been contemplated as an assassination target...
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Rob Ford, who lied about everything all the time, accuses John Tory of lying
Before being elected mayor, Rob Ford enjoyed a weird sort of moral high ground. His outsider status on city council meant he had...
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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
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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
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
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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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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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