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War on the Car: cars still winning, this time in a battle against a Bixi bike stand
We didn't expect to see the clash between the city’s two allegedly warring modes of transportation play out quite so literally...
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Welcome to Toronto the Rude
We swear at each other from cars, bark at each other on the TTC and yell into our cellphones. How a supposedly livable city...
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Why selling off Toronto’s public housing is a bad idea
The Toronto Community Housing scandal has given rise to fears that Rob Ford will impose a U.S.-style rent voucher system uditors...
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Ford set to kill citizen committees, because he’s all about respect for taxpayers
The City of Toronto has a lot of committees, so it may be tempting to cheer when a small-government mayor like Rob Ford announces...
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Council’s left bloc wins one against Ford, doesn’t know what to do next
Last night, while the rest of the media was focused on the national leaders’ debate, something interesting was happening at...
Food & Drink
Toronto might be moving to food-cart sanity—if province, city hall and restaurant owners let it happen
The infamous Toronto à la Cart program is finally winding down—or, more accurately, dying an unlamented death after becoming...
City News
Plan to move seniors out of TCHC homes to test Teflon Ford’s political indestructibility
Since the mayoral race, one of the iron laws of Toronto city hall has been that no matter what he does, nothing seems to stick to...
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Mayor’s office allegedly pulls Now Magazine from city hall, increasing Now’s exposure by 10,000 per cent
The city’s media has a touchy relationship with Rob Ford ’s weight. The mayor is rarely as disarming to reporters as when...
Food & Drink
MPP Rosario Marchese floats private member’s bill destined to make Doug Ford very, very angry
Only days after the City of Toronto voted not to further restrict the sale of sugary pop through vending machines on city...
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Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday wants city to pay legal fees for case that would stop city from paying legal fees
Sometimes work that’s started with the best of intentions ends badly. When then-councillor Doug Holyday sued the City of Toronto...
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BREAKING NEWS! Doug Ford really doesn’t like the Toronto Star
Ever since the Toronto Star ran that article about Rob Ford abusing a young football player—something later explicitly and...
Food & Drink
Battle of the bulge: committee to debate ban on pop sales at city-owned facilities
Toronto’s Government Management Committee is going to debate whether or not to allow the sales of obesity-abetting pop on city...
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Giorgio Mammoliti entertains the press corps with island brothel idea
There are times where a good idea can be spoiled by lousy execution, either because the details are wrong, or because the people...
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City hall likely to cut funding for Pride 2011
Pride Toronto, which didn’t exactly have a stellar year in 2010, looks to be heading into a nasty 2011. City hall, now run by...
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Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam manages to save Afrofest at Queen’s Park, at least for this year
Last week, it looked like Afrofest and Freedom Festival were both going to get kicked out of Queen’s Park for serial noise and...
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No-nonsense addition to the TTC brain trust hates ideas from the left and right equally
With Rob Ford ’s plan to expand the TTC’s subway system along the Sheppard line and replace the Scarborough RT with an...
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City denies Afrofest an event permit. Is this a sign of things for the first Summer of Ford, or no big deal?
For more than 20 years, Toronto has hosted Afrofest at Queen’s Park. This year, however, just as the festival was booking its...
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Awkwardness ensues: Councillor Berardinetti chooses Rob Ford over her Liberal hubby
Politics make for strange bedfellows, as they say. Things get even stranger when family’s involved. For example, the Ontario and...
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“Party-free” politics at city hall, RIP
It’s the kind of thing that will be buried three times before we all agree it’s dead, but this looks and smells like the death...
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Amateur hour at city council yesterday shows nobody’s gettin’ ’er done
We’re going to start this with a correction of sorts: The Informer wrote yesterday that, after the first major reversal of Rob...
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Councillor Josh Matlow explains what’s wrong at city hall
The Toronto Sun quoted freshman councillor Josh Matlow yesterday on councillors’ salaries, how to fix them and why it’s all...
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Battleground Toronto: with Doug Ford staying on city council, Tim Hudak’s job just got a little harder
The CBC is reporting that Doug Ford , the mayor’s brother and occasional stand-in when reporters can’t get a quote from the...
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David Miller now getting handsomely paid to do the stuff he wanted to do anyway
While the new city council busies itself getting rid of what he built and planned, David Miller is going back to Bay Street. The...
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Rob Ford’s talking points discovered! Toronto’s slide towards political parties continues apace
Nice catch by OpenFile here: a copy of the talking points that the mayor’s office has been sending to all its allies on...
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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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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
Deep Dives
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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