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Rob Ford allegedly flips a mother and daughter the finger; the Star confirms that, yes, it is an allegation
Here’s one for the journalism classes in this city: a Facebook post alleges that, while driving in Toronto, a woman and her...
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In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him
In the ’60s, McLuhan was hobnobbing with celebrities, advising politicians and forever changing how we think about mass media. A...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti’s failed gotcha mission—showing up at the Dyke March with a video camera
No, the man with the hand-held video camera pointed at Saturday’s Dyke March was not a creepy voyeur—it was just city...
City News
G20 Aftermath: one of the largest mass arrests in Canadian history nets only a handful of charges
This Sunday marks the first anniversary of the G20 summit in Toronto, and instead of a celebratory kettle of local citizens—you...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 25, Bike-riding pinkos have a sense of humour
Last December, when Don Cherry stepped up to the mike at Rob Ford’s mayoral investiture dressed in a signature...
City News
Toronto Star is last paper on earth to discover that anglophones aren’t keen on the BQ. Maybe there should there be a Bloc Torontois?
How can there still be reporters who are surprised to discover that English Canada hasn’t warmed to the Bloc Québécois being...
City News
Q&A with Ezra Levant, professional loudmouth and TV host on the spanking new Sun News Network
Do you find it ironic that you had to move from Calgary to Toronto to host a conservative-friendly TV news show? No, for the...
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City News
Ontario teachers told not to friend students on Facebook
We assumed it went without saying, but apparently it doesn't. The Ontario College of Teachers has put out an advisory on the...
City News
“Cancer faker” story comes to an appropriately weird close
Last year, Toronto’s press was all over the bizarre story of Ashley Anne Kirilow , the young woman from Burlington who shaved...
City News
Watch the Liberals turn Harper’s campaign lemons into attack-ad lemonade
This story moved fast, even by the standards of modern election campaigns. First, multiple reports of university-age students...
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Food & Drink
New calorie-counting app gives iPhone users another excuse to obsessively photograph their food
Counting calories can be a pain. For all the lazy dieters out there, salvation has arrived in the form of a new iPhone app by the...
City News
Oakwood Collegiate proposed as T.O.’s first Africentric high school—but nobody asked the students first
Toronto’s Oakwood Collegiate Institute on St. Clair Avenue West may become the first Africentric high school in the city. Just...
City News
Alberta man looks to buy the Maple Leafs—for $1,000
Darren Thompson , of Leduc, Alberta, wants to buy the Toronto Maple Leafs . It may seem like high treason for an Albertan to own...
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Food & Drink
Sick Kids dumps Burger King from food court, but Pizza Pizza and Subway remain
A minor victory for anti–junk food forces came last week as the creepy despot of the beef kingdom, Burger King , served its last...
City News
How does Ford Nation stack up to other nations—Leafs, Colbert and Bieber?
City News
Sarah Thomson makes her MPP candidacy, riding and party official
End the rumours, here are the facts: Sarah Thomson , one-time candidate for mayor and then champion for anyone-but-Ford , is...
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Buck 65 and Jully Black talk about awards, ambition and the all-powerful Internet
The place: Hub Coffee House and Locavorium on Shaw. The people: hip hopper Buck 65 and R&B singer Jully Black. The subject:...
City News
Not safe for work: Why cyberslacking makes you the company’s most valuable employee
Your boss is reading your e-mail, spying on the sites you visit and recording your keystrokes. The biggest time wasters used to be...
Culture
Skins recap, episode 7: the show that gets high school right—except when it doesn’t
We’ve been waiting a while for the Michelle episode. Who is this girl that hosts hot tub parties and lets Tony treat her like...
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How to lose a telecom company in two easy steps: Rogers Edition
Kvetching about bad service from phone, TV and Internet providers is a national sport in Canada. Well, the rules for that sport...
Style
Two retail bandwagons collide at Roots: social media saturation and the pop-up shop
Toronto is no stranger to pop-up shops, from the Drake BBQ to Frye’s boot stand at Ron White ’s to the A2Zane bag emporium on...
City News
Report: Tony Clement beats Stephen Harper on Twitter; most MPs are still pre-2002
How do modern politics and social media mix? Not well, it seems. A new report by digital public affairs strategist and...
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Memoir: my son was a leader, in life and in death
On a warm night last August, some 2,000 teenagers gathered for an end-of-summer party at Woodbine Beach. My 17-year-old...
City News
Facebook launches “Deals” service with awkward assurances on personal data
Facebook’s in a delicate time of its life: a movie about the company has piles of Oscars waiting , and people are lining up to...
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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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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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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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