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Rob Ford’s allies fight Adam Vaughan in an epic battle of words, tweets and blurry photos
Rob Ford supporters clashed with Councillor (and likely 2014 mayoral candidate ) Adam Vaughan yesterday, in an...
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Reaction Roundup: The OneCity proposal sparked lots of chatter and crowned an alternate mayor
With cloak-and-dagger plans, alliance building and power shifts, Toronto politics has veered into epic poem territory of...
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Rob Ford’s vague plans keep him from the raising of the rainbow flag. Again.
Though his likeness made an appearance, Rob Ford himself was “unavailable” for the raising of the Pride flag at city hall...
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Rob Ford got asked whether he owns a gun
With the recent talk of gun and bullet bans, one Toronto Sun reporter started wondering: is ban opponent Rob Ford packing heat?...
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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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The yearly debate over Pride funding ends in a truce, and a condemnation
After hemming and hawing (once again) over whether to fund Pride if Queers Against Israeli Apartheid marches, council ultimately...
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QUOTED: Rob Ford opponent Shelley Carroll says she wants to see more of the mayor
—Councillor Shelley Carroll, targeting Rob Ford for spending too much time gadding about instead of staying at his desk and...
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Glenn De Baeremaeker’s office dwarfs Doug Holyday’s—and Sue-Ann Levy is not cool with that
Toronto Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy is riled up that some city councillors have taken up an offer to move into bigger...
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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...
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Doug Holyday wants to ban casino lobbyists (who are already making the rounds at city hall)
Doug Holyday, one of Rob Ford’ s closest non-familial allies, hasn’t yet said what he thinks about the prospect of a GTA...
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Councillors try—and fail—to wriggle out of jury duty
A majority of city councillors want to get out of serving jury duty like federal and provincial politicians (making us wonder...
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A report recommends three safe-injection sites in Toronto, but the province doesn’t agree
Researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto took four years to produce a hefty report on safe...
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Reaction Roundup: councillors on the surprisingly dramatic vote on cleaning contracts
The formerly “mushy middle” and the left-leaners on city council teamed up against another of Rob Ford’ s campaign promises...
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QUOTED: Doug Holyday on what Toronto can expect from Rob Ford for the next two years
—Deputy mayor Doug Holyday’ s preview of Rob Ford’ s agenda for the next two and a half years can be summarized thusly: who...
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Does Rob Ford have some secret ability to charm unions?
Rob Ford’s administration has avoided any drawn-out work stoppages, which is kind of a shocker for a mayor obsessed with...
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The trick to getting your way at city hall: always bring strippers
What a week of debauchery at city hall. First, Giorgio Mammoliti revived his idea for a red-light district on Toronto Island, and...
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Some of Toronto’s inside workers accepted the city’s offer, making Doug Holyday sort of right
Doug Holyday was half-right (or half-wrong, we guess)—the deputy mayor had predicted that Toronto’s inside workers would...
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Inside workers will hold a deal-or-no-deal vote on Wednesday (without Howie Mandel, sadly)
Doug Holyday, the mayor’s point man in the negotiations with CUPE Local 79, is proclaiming victory, telling reporters that the...
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Inside workers union says it won’t strike—but if it does, it’s the city’s fault
Showing some PR smarts, CUPE Local 79 is proclaiming that its 23,000 members won’t strike this weekend —unless the city makes...
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OLG pushes for a casino in the GTA, downtown councillors push right back
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation wants to open a big ol’ casino in the GTA, which it says will create jobs and spark...
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The prospect of a new casino divides councillors along urban/suburban lines (what else is new?)
Meeting in their various community councils on Tuesday, Toronto city councillors discussed the possibility of opening a casino in...
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City hall and CUPE come to an agreement, avoid a work stoppage and live happily ever after (only not really)
Following months of public bickering, negotiating through the media and much sabre rattling, the discussions between CUPE Local...
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City issues preemptive explanation for a lockout: CUPE made us do it
Despite the February 5 deadline for an agreement in the labour negotiations between the city and CUPE Local 416, Doug Holyday...
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Doug Holyday balks at EMS demands, going out of his way to look stubborn
While Doug Holyday has been a key part of the city’s effort to look like the reasonable party in the ongoing labour negotiations...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
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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
Deep Dives
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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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