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The Influentials 2017: The top 50
The power wielders whose smarts, connections and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Q&A: Daniel Dale, the
Star
reporter who has covered both Ford and Trump
Our Six in the Six interview with a witness to two of the decade's most notable political trainwrecks
City News
A recap of Rob Ford’s weekend in Hollywood, from the airport, to the Sunset Strip, to the studio
If Hollywood were to get its hands on Rob Ford 's story, would the resulting movie be an inspirational one? Would it be the tale...
City News
Reaction Roundup: the nine top responses to Rob Ford’s refusal to attend Toronto’s World Pride event
“I’m not going to go to the Pride parade. I’ve never gone to a Pride parade. So I’m not going to change the way I am.”...
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Daniel Dale drops his defamation lawsuit against Rob Ford
After rejecting Rob Ford 's initial attempt at an apology, Star reporter Daniel Dale says he'll drop his defamation lawsuit...
City News
Watch Rob Ford dance just moments after apologizing to reporter over pedophile claims
Just moments after uttering a soon-to-be-rejected apology for suggesting that the Toronto Star 's Daniel Dale was a pedophile...
City News
Daniel Dale rejects Rob Ford’s apology, will proceed with his defamation suit
Earlier today, we wondered if Rob Ford ’s surprise apology to Star reporter Daniel Dale would be enough to head off the...
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UPDATED: Rob Ford’s day of apologies continues—with an “I’m sorry” to the
Star
’s Daniel Dale
Not long after not-quite apologizing for Monday's comparatively minor slip of the tongue, Rob Ford apologized for something much...
City News
The feud between Conrad Black and Rosie DiManno is bad for newspaper readers, great for the dictionary industry
Conrad Black and Rosie DiManno have spent the past few days attacking each other in their respective newspaper columns, and it's...
City News
Indiegogo campaign tries to crowdfund legal fees for Rob Ford
Does a guy whose family members can afford to hand out $20 bills to crowds need charity from the internet? The creator of this...
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City News
QUOTED: ZoomerMedia on being sued by Daniel Dale
— ZoomerMedia , on its decision to stay silent after being served with a notice of libel by Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale...
City News
It’s official: Star reporter Daniel Dale is going to sue Rob Ford over “pedophile” suggestion [UPDATED]
It seems as though Rob Ford has earned himself another defamation lawsuit. (He's 1-0 on these things, so far .) Daniel Dale —the...
City News
QUOTED:
Star
reporter Daniel Dale on whether he’ll sue Rob Ford
- Toronto Star city hall reporter Daniel Dale , on whether he'll sue Mayor Rob Ford . The conflict stems from an interview between...
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A tragicomic scrapbook of Rob Ford’s crazy, blunder-filled mayoralty
We expected a bumpy ride with Ford as mayor, but we weren’t prepared for a self-sabotaging Lindsay Lohan of politics. With a new...
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
TRCA kills Rob Ford’s dream of buying up parkland by his house to build a big fence
As expected, the executive committee of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has decided to follow its staff’s...
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Etobicoke has fallen out of love with Rob Ford since his reporter-chasing hijinks
Funnily enough (or sadly enough, from the perspective of civic engagement), the ridiculous Daniel Dale incident seems to have...
City News
TRCA staff not cool with Rob Ford buying the (now infamous) land near his house
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority officials hinted that its board shouldn’t allow Rob Ford to buy that notorious bit of...
City News
Rob Ford doesn’t go mute when faced with Toronto Star reporters
After finding Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale near his house on May 3, Rob Ford vowed not to participate in press conferences if...
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Daniel Dale won’t face charges for standing near Rob Ford’s house
City News
Rob Ford and journalists get passive-aggressive during World Press Freedom Week
Here’s a scenario that feels more like satire than real life: Rob Ford marked World Press Freedom Week with a speech about the...
City News
Sun News Network’s David Menzies makes Rob Ford’s radio show that much more offensive
The Sun News Network’ s David Menzies managed to be more controversial than Rob and Doug Ford on the brothers’ radio show this...
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Rob Ford’s plan to buy parkland advances—as does the Toronto Star’s campaign against it
There won’t be any decision just yet about whether Rob Ford can buy the strip of parkland next to his Etobicoke bungalow...
City News
Reaction Roundup: a few sane arguments (in a whole sea of crazy) about Rob Ford’s backyard showdown
The strange tale of Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale’s altercation with Rob Ford keeps escalating (as does our vicarious...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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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