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Rob Ford turns down $5,000 (and Doug Ford follows suit)
Rob Ford continued his sometimes serious, sometimes ridiculous crusade against city spending this week by turning down an...
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Olivia Chow is not running for mayor (so stop asking)
Anyone still holding out hope that Olivia Chow will challenge Rob Ford in the 2014 mayoral race (i.e. many, many people ) will be...
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The man who raised millions for George Smitherman’s campaign is helping get Rob Ford re-elected
It’s no secret Rob Ford is thinking ahead to the 2014 election—and now he has landed fundraising veteran Ralph Lean to...
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Five things we learned about the workings of Rob Ford’s inner circle from the Globe and Mail
Based on Rob Ford’ s habitual muteness and flights into gaffe territory, sometimes we wonder if his camp has any communications...
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Adam Vaughan votes against further study of his own bullet ban proposal
Adam Vaughan’ s bullet ban received a lukewarm response from his colleagues at this week’s meeting, the last before the summer...
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OneCity plan made waves, faltered, shrank and died, all in two weeks
OneCity, Karen Stintz’ s surprise (and surprisingly ambitious) transit plan for the masses, died a humiliating death on council...
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POLL: Who will Rob Ford pick as his next chief of staff?
Now that Rob Ford’ s chief of staff Amir Remtulla has quit to take a gig with the Pan Am Games, sources say there are two main...
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The Toronto Sun forgets which Ford brother is actually mayor
Doug Ford is the mayor of Toronto (and looks a lot like his brother Rob ) according to this Toronto Sun caption posted...
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Rob Ford wants to freeze property taxes but even his allies aren’t enthusiastic
In a letter to the city manager late last week, Rob Ford called for a property tax freeze to begin in...
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Is Adam Vaughan slowly morphing into Rob Ford?
Right-wing mayor Rob Ford and leftist councillor Adam Vaughan don’t agree on much. But the mayor’s former press secretary...
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Rob Ford’s chief of staff quits—and there are plenty of rumours about why
Rob Ford is losing a key aide (no, Doug Ford is not making the leap to provincial politics—yet). Amir Remtulla, the mayor’s...
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Rob Ford’s allies fight Adam Vaughan in an epic battle of words, tweets and blurry photos
Rob Ford supporters clashed with Councillor (and likely 2014 mayoral candidate ) Adam Vaughan yesterday, in an...
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Karen Stintz wishes she hadn’t been so secretive about OneCity
OneCity may have launched a thousand op-eds and fired up Torontonians, but the ambitious transit plan is losing momentum after...
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Rob Ford says a TTC driver “accosted” him for doing something perfectly legal
Rob Ford’ s dislike of streetcars had until now mostly been limited to speechifying and pamphlets on LRT crashes, but now he’s...
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Reaction Roundup: The OneCity proposal sparked lots of chatter and crowned an alternate mayor
With cloak-and-dagger plans, alliance building and power shifts, Toronto politics has veered into epic poem territory of...
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Karen Stintz created a game-changing $30-billion transit proposal (without consulting Rob Ford)
Transit rogue Karen Stintz has done it again—after spending the winter annihilating all of Rob Ford’ s transit ideas, the TTC...
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Karen Stintz offered the TTC chair job to Rob Ford—twice
At an event for the Women’s Executive Network yesterday, Karen Stintz admitted to offering to quit her job as TTC...
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Olivia Chow joins the list of fantasy picks to take down Rob Ford in 2014
Olivia Chow is the latest addition to the growing “please run for mayor in 2014” wish list. Joe Cressy, a family friend and...
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QUOTED: Doug Ford’s daughter Krista on whether she’ll be the third Ford at city hall
— Krista Ford, a personal trainer and former Lingerie Football League player, on whether she’d ever join her dad, Doug...
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QUOTED: Doug Ford on why he may quit city politics by July
—Councillor and would-be MPP Doug Ford, on why he may make his leap to provincial politics as soon as this summer, rather than...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 4, because principle finally trumped ideology at City Hall
Remember way back in 2008 when Karen Stintz took public speaking lessons in order to, in her words, not sound so “shrill”? It...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 25, because Rob Ford isn’t so bad for the arts after all
The silver lining of our library-loathing mayor’s no-frills agenda has been an outpouring of city-wide creativity. Here, a...
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Rob Ford sends a polite but angry letter to Dalton McGuinty
The provincial Liberals annoyed Rob Ford earlier this spring by refusing to override council on the LRT-versus-subway...
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Rob Ford casts the sole vote to reject free (!) federal money for gang prevention
Rob Ford can’t seem to shake his roots as a contrarian councillor. At last week’s council meeting, he was the sole person to...
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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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