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Shameless plug
The latest print edition of Toronto Life is now on newsstands, featuring a cover story penned by me. I had no say in the cover’s...
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Where’d that Star headline go?
Sorry for going AWOL on the blog. Long story. Anyway, the front-page headline in this morning’s Star —“PM to cities: Drop...
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Transit’s Gaping Maw
You know how Queen’s Parkies like to observe that health care costs eat up more and more of its budget, to the point where they...
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Why a panel of experts?
Today’s big city hall news is that Mayor David Miller has named an independent fiscal review panel , comprised of six...
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How Rude
On TVO last night Steve Paikin asked me for my take on the election results, but before I could answer I was pre-empted by Dalton...
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UPDATE: Councillors inundated with pro-tax emails
The Web site launched yesterday at a rally led by Mayor David Miller, www.fairtaxes.ca , encourages people to “click here to...
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Welcome back. Now gird yourself
I had a nice holiday. You too? Peachy! Just don’t ask anyone who works for either Mayor Miller or his close allies how their...
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The things I’ll miss while on vacation
I’m off on vacation, so this blog will go dormant until after Labour Day, at which time I’ll be sinking my teeth into the...
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Kicking some Ashton
Updated: Old news : Mayor Miller asked Brian Ashton for his resignation and got it. Not so old news: even though Councillor Gord...
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Good news for sports radio junkies
It’s been a slow week, but this is news to shake up the Toronto sports-media scene: AM640 is going to turn their Leafs Lunch...
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How Toronto will eventually tax cigarettes
Funny thing happened back when the city was still mulling over its many new revenue-taxing power-tools. One of the powers under...
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The sound of bureaucrats laughing
When she met with the media on Friday, City Manager Shirley Hoy, city hall’s top bureaucrat, didn’t mince words about the...
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The defining issue of our time…
… is of course climate change. But I have been sounding alarm bells on this blog about economic prosperity for a while now. And...
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How not to handle a political hot potato
If a government wants to introduce new taxes, it helps to manufacture a crisis. You have to make it seem as if there is no choice...
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Two strikes against the bohemian city
Everyone’s been aflutter since the weekend over the news that creative-cities guru Richard Florida, who encourages cities to...
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Act Up, where are you?
Today, when the Board of Health meets at city hall, on the agenda is a report recommending that the city ask Queen’s Park...
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The happy-go-lucky, cycle-commuting councillor
Glenn De Baeremaeker is unfailingly one of the happiest and most ebullient members of city council. I hadn’t met him up close...
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Green whine
Council’s executive committee yesterday approved Mayor David Miller’s climate-change plan. But despite the unanimous vote, a...
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Taking a toll on the city
This morning Toronto City Hall released its Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Action Plan , a truly remarkable policy...
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Michael Thompson, MPP?
City Councillor David Shiner has already announced he will be running for the Ontario John Tory Party in Willowdale, but at this...
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Paul Bedford’s modest proposal
I had a chat yesterday with Paul Bedford, former Chief Planner for the City of Toronto and all-around civic eminence grise . I...
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The bureaucratic shield
The city needs new sources of revenue. What do councillors do? They request a study from city staff, who oblige with a series of...
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Speeding through the Green Lane
An excellent story in this morning’s Globe and Mail warns that Toronto’s purchase of the Green Lane landfill near...
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Mayor for all New Democrats
It’s front page news in today’s Star that Mayor David Miller is no longer a member of the New Democratic Party. He says...
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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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