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Coming soon to a newspaper near you: police documents that may contain dirt on Rob Ford
Good news for Rob Ford scandal watchers: a group of media lawyers has scored a victory in their court battle to obtain a 500-page...
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Philip Preville: Does Toronto really need a $1-billion police force?
Zulfiqar Khimani holds the distinction of being Toronto’s most prolific parking enforcement officer. In the last five years he...
City News
QUOTED: Rob Ford, on whether he thinks he will win his appeal hearing
—mayor-for-now Rob Ford, on his optimism that a three-judge panel at the Court of Appeal will overturn Justice Charles...
City News
Rob Ford will remain mayor, for now
This morning, an Ontario Superior Court judge deemed that Rob Ford can remain in office until after a judgment is issued in his...
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A Life Interrupted: Hassan Rasouli’s journey from an earache to a high-stakes battle over end-of-life decisions
Early in the summer of 2010, Hassan Rasouli, a 59-year-old engineer, had a problem with his right ear. He noticed sounds were...
Real Estate News
The Trump Tower’s developer tries to subdue angry buyers—by suing them
Trouble keeps cropping up for Talon International, the developer of Toronto’s Trump International Hotel and Tower. First, sales...
City News
A federal government appeal jeopardizes Toronto’s bawdy house plans
All the talk about where to put brothels in the city (and how to make money off them) may have been a tad premature—the federal...
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City News
For once, the courts give Conrad Black reason to be “delighted”
The courts have delivered everybody’s second-most despised media supervillain something of a moral victory. The Supreme Court of...
City News
In a shocking development, Rob Ford tried to delay his campaign audit—again
Rob Ford is a man who knows how to stall, but even his very best tactics couldn’t delay his upcoming audit appeal hearing any...
Style
Law and Order: Toronto edition (wherein five former Toronto drug squad officers stand trial for corruption)
Five former Toronto drug cops go on trial today in what the CBC is calling “the largest case of alleged police corruption in...
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City News
Why three prominent Chinese-Canadian writers launched a $10-million plagiarism suit against Ling Zhang
A tale of death threats, tarnished reputations and literary jealousy The streets near Scarborough’s Confederation Park curve and...
City News
How bullying became the crisis of a generation
Kids are committing suicide, parents are in a panic, and schools that neglect to protect students are lawsuit targets Mitchell...
City News
Drunk, unruly RIM executives were tied up on an Air Canada flight—and then chewed through their restraints
The basic story reported two weeks ago was amusing enough—two Research in Motion executives get in a drunken row on a plane to...
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Rob Ford could go to court over campaign finances—but likely won’t have to take the stand
Rob Ford is hoping an Ontario court will disregard a compliance audit committee’s findings and instead hold a trial to determine...
City News
Byron Sonne: G20 geek, anarchist, accused bomb-maker and, um, baker?
The pre-trial of the “G20 geek” accused of planning an attack on the G20 summit with home-cooked bombs continues. The Toronto...
City News
Occupy Toronto gets crushed by the man, then fights the power and actually wins (at least, momentarily)
The campout will continue. After the city served Occupy Toronto with an eviction notice yesterday morning, it looked like the...
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City News
Financial fraudster Garth Drabinsky continues his valiant struggle against the Man
Professional grifter Garth Drabinsky refuses to just give up and go to jail already. The Toronto Star is reporting that...
City News
Conrad Black talks to Matt Galloway about the broken American criminal justice system (and how it’s done him wrong)
We’ve learned a lot about Conrad Black this week—be it his ability to make friends in the big house or that his verbose style...
City News
G20 aftermath: court allows class action lawsuit to proceed
Without any kind of serious, thorough and official reckoning in the wake of the G20 summit in Toronto last summer, we were finally...
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More legal troubles for the Black family: Jonathan Black facing harassment charges
As if the family of Conrad Black didn’t have enough to deal with, Conrad’s son Jonathan Black is now facing criminal charges...
City News
Danforth business owner and arsonist may get 10 years in the slammer—but he’ll also get to profit from his crime
This story reads more like a true crime novel with each passing day: a Danforth family business is burned to the ground, killing...
City News
Is a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab an unreasonable accomodation?
A case involving a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab is now headed for the Supreme Court. Maybe it’s time to...
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Conrad Black will have plenty of time to ponder whether insulting the court was the best idea after receiving another year of jail time
Conrad Black , former Canadian citizen, current British lord and now and forever a convicted felon, is heading back to prison to...
City News
How Byron Sonne’s obsession with the G20 security apparatus cost him everything
he fence, as the notorious G20 barricade was known, was three metres high and 10 kilometres long. It was put up at a cost of $9.4...
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business