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Ex-McGuinty chief of staff is the focus of a criminal probe
This right here isn't the type of news the Ontario Liberals want on the front page of the Star in what's likely to be an election...
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The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
City News
How Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke brought the stodgy newspaper back to life
Michael Cooke, the Toronto Star’ s tabloid-minded editor, is on a mission to expose the corruption and crookedness of the...
City News
Jan Wong: The province’s shrewd but savage strategy to stick it to Ontario’s teachers
The school year is coming to a close, and not a moment too soon. It’s been an ugly one. Queen’s Park forced new labour...
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Sunshine List: how much Rob Ford, Paul Godfrey and Chris Spence earned in 2012
Each year, Queen’s Park releases the sunshine list, a catalogue of all the Ontario public servants who made $100,000 or...
City News
The Moment: the Bill 115 dust-up has been as mature as a cafeteria food fight
When a relationship goes sour, both sides tend to behave badly. McGuinty, the self-styled Education Premier, went first: his...
City News
Liberal Watch: The six contenders for the Ontario Liberal party leadership so far
Although leading the struggling Ontario Liberal party may be the worst job in the province (just ask Dalton McGuinty ), another...
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Glen Murray and Kathleen Wynne are running for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership
The race to be the next leader of the Ontario Liberal Party is now, finally, an actual race. Three weeks quietly passed following...
City News
The Moment: Dalton McGuinty’s emergency exit
During his nine years as premier, Dalton McGuinty displayed a magical ability to maintain the squeaky clean persona of Premier...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Premier Dalton McGuinty steps down and adjourns the legislature
We’ve never really thought of Dalton McGuinty as a big-surprises kind of guy, but Premier Dad shocked the province last night by...
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Rob Ford’s meeting with Dalton McGuinty is a triumph, according to Rob Ford
Rob Ford is claiming victory after Dalton McGuinty pledged $12.5 million to help prevent gun violence across the...
City News
Rob Granatstein: Toronto hydro rates are skyrocketing and politics are to blame
Toronto has a dearth of power plants and an aging grid. By the end of 2013, we’ll have the highest hydro rates on the...
City News
A fancy Muskoka resort orders its spa workers to hand over their tips (or get out)
A Marriott resort in cottage country is forcing some of its staff to give nearly half their gratuities to the hotel—if they...
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Why was President Obama at the wedding of a Toronto MPP’s son?
There’s just something about the slow-jamming, fly-swatting president of the United States—all Barack Obama had to do was show...
City News
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...
City News
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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Rob Ford invites Dalton McGuinty to hang out—at a community housing building
When the province decided to delay the city’s decision to sell 65 Toronto Community Housing homes, Rob Ford first took a formal...
City News
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...
Culture
Chicago wants something Toronto has: a Luminato-like arts festival (and tons of international tourists)
While Chicago has Toronto beat on virtually every other count when it comes to arts and culture, the Big Smoke trounces the Windy...
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Where to find Prince Charles and Camilla this afternoon while they’re in Toronto
Royalists, rejoice! Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are here, and they’re making some very public (and a few...
City News
The weirdest mayoralty ever—the inside story of Rob Ford’s city hall
On Newstalk 1010, the sly strains of the Hollies hit “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” offered the first clue. Then...
City News
Prince Charles will tour Toronto in the most regal of vehicles: a TTC bus
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are coming to Toronto later this month, and the prince will get to sample firsthand the...
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Rob Ford plans to unleash Ford Nation on Kitchener-Waterloo
Rob Ford is now looking outside Toronto’s borders to continue the eternal fight for subways. Ford, an avowed supporter of...
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The 2014 election (or Doug Ford’s election to Queen’s Park) could kill Transit City again
Rob Ford has been silent since Metrolinx resurrected the LRT-based transit plan he cancelled on his first day in office, but the...
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Deep Dives
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
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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
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
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand