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A Vaughan pastor is part of an alleged $99,600 fraud scheme that targeted homelessness prevention funds
Police have charged 15 suspects with fraud-related offences
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City News
An Air Canada employee tried to export drugs through an unsuspecting couple’s luggage
Jan Baumann, one of the wrongfully detained passengers, said the airline should screen its employees carefully
City News
Halton police busted six people for selling $60,000 worth of “film prop money”
Fake Canadian and Australian banknotes, as well as Euros, were allegedly sold through Instagram
City News
An Air Canada employee has been charged in connection to alleged drug smuggling at Pearson
The employee allegedly attached luggage tags in the names of unsuspecting passengers to suitcases full of drugs
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City News
Doug Ford says TTC special constables should be able to arrest drug users
The Ministry of the Solicitor General is considering changes to the Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act
City News
York Regional Police chief Jim MacSween will retire in June
The announcement comes several weeks after Project South uncovered alleged police corruption
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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Deep Dives
Pathological Lawyer: Inside the multimillion-dollar embezzlement case against attorney Singa Bui
What happens when a lawyer uses her firm’s trust account to finance her family’s lavish lifestyle? A cautionary tale about real estate fraud
Deep Dives
Becoming El Jefe: The story of Ryan Wedding, Canada’s Olympic snowboarder turned ruthless drug lord
Before Wedding landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list as a high-level associate of El Chapo, he was a bright-eyed kid from Thunder Bay. Inside the rise of one of the world’s most dangerous and powerful cartel leaders
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
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City News
“I wonder if I’m asking for enough”: Toronto Police Association president Clayton Campbell on the service’s $46-million budget hike
Police Association boss is one of the most contentious jobs in the city, and new president Campbell is ready for a fight. Step one: arguing for more money
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
“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
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Deep Dives
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
City News
“Testifying that I’d been sexually assaulted took all my strength. When the case was thrown out due to courtroom delays, it broke me”
Emily Ager is one of several complainants in criminal trials whose cases have been dismissed because of staffing shortages and delays at Toronto’s new $956-million courthouse
City News
This doctor was sentenced to 12 years in prison for fentanyl trafficking. Now he’s an international fugitive
When George Otto disappeared while out on bail, his wife reported him missing. It turned out he'd fled to his home country of Uganda
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I have to tell my friend I’m stealing his cable?
"It doesn’t cost him extra and I’d probably never get caught"
Life
My life in street gangs
Gang life gave me a sense of power and belonging that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Then a knife fight turned fatal
City News
The Double Life of Ben Levin: His depraved online world, and the sting that brought him down
Benjamin Levin dazzled everyone around him. He was the second of four brothers, born in 1952 to a warm, loving, staunch NDP family...
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Jennifer Pan’s Revenge: The inside story of a golden child, the killers she hired, and the parents she wanted dead
Read this article in Mandarin Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was...
City News
The Cult of Jian: His life as an outcast, who’s standing by him, and why he’s sure he’ll walk
Jian Ghomeshi and I first met in February of 1999. I was in my early 20s, and I’d just been hired as an arts reporter at the...
City News
“Getting cussed out comes with the job”: Ten parking enforcement officers share their on-the-job horror stories
John Tory's “zero tolerance” policy on illegal parking during rush hour has a lot of Torontonians seeing...
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Deep Dives
The Break-In Artist: The hunt for the cat burglar who terrorized Toronto’s wealthiest neighbourhoods
he Fort Knox of Thornhill is a stucco mansion with a mansard roof, front-yard fountain and U-shaped driveway on the area’s most...
City News
#TorontoIsFailingMe: My brother was killed outside a bar, and everyone assumed he was in a gang
My father, Tsehaie Berhane, fled Asmara, Eritrea, in the ’80s during the war with Ethiopia. He was a professor, and the...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
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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