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Ford campaign identifies two biggest threats to victory: opposition, Rob Ford
With his thunderous lead in the polls, there’s almost nothing that can stop Rob Ford from getting what he wants come election...
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Boardwalk Café owner giving Ford a choice: apology or lawsuit
The long-running drama over the city’s decision to grant George Foulidis a 20-year monopoly on selling food and drinks along the...
City News
38 Tories endorse Smitherman—but not John Tory, who says, “I’m not endorsing for mayor”
We’ve said before that former premier Mike Harris is politically toxic in this city, but we’ll eat our words if this latest...
City News
Michael Bryant’s very bad year: his life on bail, how he got off, and his surprise comeback
A 28-second fight resulted in the death of a cyclist and almost ended the career of the cocky, ruthlessly ambitious Michael...
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Showdown at the Boardwalk Café: Tuggs owner gets an earful from local candidate
There are many reasons readers might be familiar with Sandra Bussin , councillor for Beaches–East York. Some may remember the...
City News
Mayoral hopefuls praise Toronto film industry, The Simpsons
This morning—that is, the morning before TIFF—the four males of Toronto's five leading mayoral hopefuls gathered at the lot...
City News
City’s new recycling program takes cues from Cash for Gold
This week’s homegrown viral video comes from the municipal government, which earlier in the week released a series of...
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Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
City News
City hall now with fewer erection jokes: Howard Moscoe is retiring
Long-time city councillor Howard Moscoe is best known for his mouth: whether slagging Mel Lastman (something Moscoe started doing...
Food & Drink
War on fun: New zoning bylaw prohibits restaurants and bars located south of Bloor from having back patios
Think the one-year ban on bars and restaurants on Ossington was strict? This week, a new zoning bylaw quietly went into effect; it...
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Latest mayoral debate features duelling Roccos, melanin and group shouting at Rob Ford
Last night's mayoral debate at St. Lawrence Hall featured the first new face since Rob Ford entered the race: candidate Rocco...
City News
Total Recall: Rocco Rossi wants Torontonians to be able to sack their councillors by petition
We'll be the first to acknowledge that election campaigns are fun. There's shouting, polls, shouting, the occasional policy...
City News
Strategist extraordinaire Warren Kinsella grabs a bucket, starts bailing out the SS Rocco Rossi
As Toronto's mayoral campaign enters the home stretch, it's looking worse and worse for Rocco Rossi 's campaign. A Toronto Star...
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Rob Ford’s frenemies on council eager to emphasize the “fre” part
Mayoral front-runner Rob Ford doesn't have a lot of people he could call friends on council, or so the story goes. Just yesterday...
City News
Mammoliti will not be endorsing Sarah Thomson; Thomson seems OK with it
One of the great prerogatives of running for office and then quitting the race is that you get to shop your influence around and...
City News
Rob Ford campaigns against city council lunches (insert ironic joke about Ford’s waistline here)
Next up on Rob Ford’s chopping block: lunch. The mayoral candidate continued his legacy of bottom-line nitpicking (and pissing...
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Shocker! Jack Layton endorses Joe Pantalone
We don't imagine there were that many NDP voters in the city who were wondering which candidate, exactly, was the left-most choice...
City News
Wild Thing: the story behind the Brick Works
The bucolic eco-paradise between Rosedale and the DVP almost never was. How big money and one ambitious entrepreneur remade the...
Culture
The penis problem: Toronto Art Fair in a censorship battle over male nudes
We're used to viewer's discretion advisories for everything from CSI to Freaks and Geeks reruns, but somehow censor warnings on...
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Immigration conflagration: we talk to the five front-runners about Rob Ford’s “enough’s enough” stand on newcomers
In case you missed it, at Tuesday night's CP24 mayoral debate, Rob Ford said: There's some argument about the numbers that Ford...
City News
Seven Long Years: How will David Miller be remembered?
As a kvetchy, largely ineffective do-gooder ultimately undone by the unionists who helped elect him Unless Joe Pantalone, the...
City News
Latest mayoral debate: Ford opposes immigration and giving credit to Suzan Hall, proposes scrapping the land transfer tax
With the mayoral election just over two months away, the front-running candidates are upping their game when it comes to the...
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Six things our city politicians achieved in one day
Boy, let it never be said that the city can't buckle down and get some work done when there's a deadline looming. Yesterday's...
Culture
Good news for arts spending, as long as Rob Ford doesn’t get elected
Good news is a rare treasure in the arts community in these post-recession days, which is why yesterday's city hall executive...
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
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
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
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