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Q&A: Mike McCormack, Toronto cops’ biggest defender
Mike McCormack is the head of the Toronto Police Association , the labour union that represents over 8,000 civilian and uniformed...
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The Toronto area’s homicide rate hits a new low (in a good way)
—The Toronto area's 2013 homicide rate, according to Statistics Canada . (That's per 100,000 residents. Canada's most murderous...
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A Toronto police officer gets a light fine for assaulting a drunk guy
—The court-ordered fine levied on Gary Gould , a Toronto police officer who pleaded guilty to assault after punching a drunk man...
City News
The Jihadists of Suburbia
Raed Jaser, a school bus driver with a long record of petty crime, and Chiheb Esseghaier, a doctoral student in...
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Memoir: growing a few pot plants in the basement seemed like a great idea—until I got busted
On the evening of July 25, 2007, I was trimming the drooping branches of the weeping mulberry tree in the garden of my house in a...
City News
One of Rob Ford’s campaign volunteers has been charged with assaulting a weird protester
The details aren't totally clear, but the Sun reports that William Byers , a 60-year-old Rob Ford campaign volunteer, has been...
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Rob Ford will be subpoenaed to testify in Sandro Lisi’s extortion case
For the third time since becoming mayor, Rob Ford may be forced to give testimony in court. He wouldn't be talking about anything...
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Almost a year after Sammy Yatim, Toronto Police get a report on how to deal with people in crisis
Almost a year to the day after the shooting death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim , a long-awaited report on police encounters with...
City News
Murder in Muskoka: How a mysterious crate in a cottage crawl space cracked Samantha Collins’s murder
met Ian Borbely at a mutual friend’s party in 2003. They came from different worlds. She was 25 and striking, with long black...
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Rob Ford’s sister Kathy talked to the police
As far as we know, Rob Ford has never cooperated with Project Brazen 2, the Toronto Police–led criminal probe into his...
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Behold: the Toronto Police Service press release of the decade
Let this be a lesson to all library-goers: keep your phallic vegetables to yourself. Here's a mugshot of the alleged perp, from...
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Survey says: most Canadians think selling sex should be legal
—Percentage of respondents to a Department of Justice online survey who answered "no" when asked whether selling sexual services...
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A judge settled a dog-poop dispute between two Forest Hill couples in the most sarcastic way possible
Only in Forest Hill could a dispute over dog poop escalate into a lawsuit. Fortunately for all of us, Justice E.M. Morgan , who...
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Paid-duty policing: Toronto’s perennial scandal
Here's an excerpt from a December 1993 Globe and Mail article about the excesses of paid-duty policing—a kind of official...
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Global News figured out where all of Toronto’s sex offenders live
Don't panic, Liberty Villagers, Parkdalians and Corktownspeople, but listen carefully: your parts of the city are home to...
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The Captive: John Greyson’s time in Egyptian prison
John Greyson is the quintessential loud-and-proud gay activist—earnest, ardent and perpetually revved up about one cause or...
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Toronto socialite accused of stealing millions from a 92-year-old with dementia
Here's a story Toronto will be hearing more about: Nancy Tsai , once a key figure in Toronto's charity-gala scene and founder of...
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QUOTED: Rob Ford’s sister Kathy, on almost missing a court date, again
- Kathy Ford , apologizing on Monday to Justice of the Peace Diane McAleer after arriving hours late to court. According to the...
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Memoir: a group of street thugs became my surrogate family—until one of them betrayed me
I grew up in the Vineways, a townhouse in Willowdale populated largely by immigrant and working-class families. It was a...
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Woodbridge shooting may have been a gangland hit
It's organized-crime week in Toronto, apparently. On Thursday, the same day reports of possible mob infiltration into Toronto's...
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Toronto police officers can no longer accost you for no reason
At a special meeting on Thursday, the Toronto Police Services Board approved a long-awaited new policy that forbids police...
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Reporters probe possible mob ties to Toronto’s construction industry
What is this, Montreal ? An investigation published jointly by the Star and the CBC last night suggests that organized crime...
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The police officer charged with Sammy Yatim’s murder is back at work
With his preliminary hearing underway, constable James Forcillo , the police officer charged with second-degree murder in the...
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Rob Ford may not be charged, but he could still be forced to testify
The CBC points out an interesting footnote to yesterday's news that the police investigation into Rob Ford has stalled: even...
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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
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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