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Five things we learned about the workings of Rob Ford’s inner circle from the Globe and Mail
Based on Rob Ford’ s habitual muteness and flights into gaffe territory, sometimes we wonder if his camp has any communications...
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Rob Ford’s chief of staff quits—and there are plenty of rumours about why
Rob Ford is losing a key aide (no, Doug Ford is not making the leap to provincial politics—yet). Amir Remtulla, the mayor’s...
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Rob Ford opposes road tolls and sales taxes, but his executive isn’t so sure
Josh Matlow hasn’t been shy about wanting to use tolls or taxes to expand Toronto’s lagging transit network, and it looks like...
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Rob Ford casts the sole vote to reject free (!) federal money for gang prevention
Rob Ford can’t seem to shake his roots as a contrarian councillor. At last week’s council meeting, he was the sole person to...
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Will the 2024 Olympics take place in Toronto? Maybe
It seems as though there’s a case of Olympic fever at city council, since Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong introduced a motion...
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Kristyn Wong-Tam and Denzil Minnan-Wong argue over how to turn Yonge into New York
Yonge Street retailers are complaining that the area has too much foot traffic—which sounds a little nuts, but their reasoning...
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QUOTED: Denzil Minnan-Wong scolds Toronto’s chief medical officer for wanting to cut speed limits
—Denzil Minnan-Wong, chair of the public works committee, getting testy over Dr. David McKeown’ s call to cut the speed limit...
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Did Councillor Pam McConnell mess up by buying a condo in the Regent Park redevelopment?
Some well-placed folks may have broken the rules when they scored brand-new condos in a redevelopment partly financed by the...
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Rob Granatstein: how city hall tries—and fails—to tackle the systemically screwed-up Toronto taxi industry
Toronto’s taxi industry has been a mess for more than 50 years. As a passenger, you feel it as soon as you slide your bum onto...
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The Anti-Ford: Kristyn Wong-Tam believes Toronto is in better shape than you’re being told
In her first year on city council, Kristyn Wong-Tam hogged the spotlight with proposals to ban shark fin soup, save bike lanes and...
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QUOTED: Denzil Minnan-Wong offers Rob Ford a few words of political wisdom
— Rob Ford ally Denzil Minnan-Wong , reflecting on the implications of yesterday’s transit vote, yet another big defeat for...
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Two of Rob Ford’s most loyal, most fiscally conservative friends quarrel over money
Doug Ford and Denzil Minnan-Wong are having a bit of a tiff over whether or not Build Toronto executives should make lots of money...
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Rob Ford doesn’t get his way at council—so he deems the whole proceedings “irrelevant”
After a lengthy special council meeting to debate the city’s overarching transit plan, where Rob Ford and his allies repeatedly...
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City councillors are (once again) considering licensing cyclists—that terrible idea that refuses to die
The city is looking to crack down on reckless cyclists—specifically those who ride on the sidewalk—and apparently they’re...
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Special highway lane restrictions could cause Pan Am–demonium in 2015
We expected playing host to the second-largest multi-sport extravaganza in the world would create a few headaches, but this is...
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Wong vs. Wong: Denzil Minnan-Wong calls Kristyn Wong-Tam’s Bank of Toronto stupid, insane and illegal
Earlier this week, Kristyn Wong-Tam suggested that the city establish its own bank. Critics responded with choice quotes...
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Has conservative councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby become a Ford Nation exile?
The “it’s complicated”–style relationship between conservative councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby and Mayor Rob Ford appears...
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Denzil Minnan-Wong now serving as bean counter–in–chief and lead gravy hunter for the Rob Ford administration
Thanks to a freedom of information query put forward by Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, who requested “the 25 highest mileage...
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Denzil Minnan-Wong sets his sights on the Dundas and Yonge scramble intersection, snubbing Kristyn Wong-Tam (once again)
Yesterday afternoon, council announced its latest salvo in the war on the car: Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong is calling for the...
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Garbage privatization happening six months early, savings (maybe) larger than expected
It was a bit of a surprise yesterday when Denzil Minnan-Wong announced that the City of Toronto would be moving forward with...
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As the executive committee digs in for a marathon meeting, is the mayor even listening?
Today, and possibly for several days to come, Toronto’s executive committee—the one that will be recommending cuts to city...
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The next act in the grand core service review theatre: don’t cut the gravy
Yesterday’s meeting of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee was the council’s first look at what to actually do with...
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Council clears a (straighter) path for the Island airport’s pedestrian tunnel
One of the last pieces of business that city council dealt with on its third day of meetings yesterday was approving a deal with...
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Jarvis and Scarborough bike lanes die following particularly childish council debate
Well, that’s that: just before taking their lunch break today, council voted to adopt Denzil Minnan-Wong ’s bike network...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
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The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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