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The Sex Ed Revolution: A portrait of the powerful political bloc that’s waging war on Queen’s Park
Azeem Mohammed, a 38-year-old stay-at-home dad from East York, is the school council chair at Thorncliffe Park Public...
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Real Estate News
The Tenant From Hell: How a serial fraudster took advantage of Toronto’s red-hot real estate market
Wilf Dinnick and Sonia Verma unwittingly rented their house to a con artist. What happened next is every homeowner's worst nightmare
City News
Jennifer Pan’s Revenge: The inside story of a golden child, the killers she hired, and the parents she wanted dead
Read this article in Mandarin Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was...
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Read this article in English Bich Ha和Huei Hann...
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Sex, Drugs and EDM: high times and overdoses in Toronto’s dance festival scene
The electronic dance music genre has spawned a $20-billion economy of giant festivals, thumping bass and designer drugs. The partygoers think they’re invincible. The overdoses tell another story
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The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black
The summer I was nine, my teenage cousin Sana came from England to visit my family in Oshawa. He was tall, handsome and...
City News
The Break-In Artist: The hunt for the cat burglar who terrorized Toronto’s wealthiest neighbourhoods
The Fort Knox of Thornhill is a stucco mansion with a mansard roof, front-yard fountain and U-shaped driveway on the area’s most...
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The naked ambition of National Ballet artistic director Karen Kain
Beneath her poised veneer is an exacting perfectionist, a tenacious fundraiser and a total control freak. Which explains how she turned the floundering National Ballet of Canada into one of the world’s premiere arts organizations
City News
Inside the nasty, bizarro, contemptible, gobsmackingly screwed-up soap opera that is the TDSB
The evening of Wednesday October 29 was possibly the most absurd in the history of the Toronto District School Board. The board of...
City News
Puckheads: inside the crazed arenas of the GTHL
The world’s largest amateur hockey organization is also a breeding ground for unscrupulous coaches, raging parents and miserable...
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The Relentless Robert Deluce: Porter’s founder wants jets on the waterfront. Who’s going to stop him?
His plans to bring jets to the Island airport have made him Public Enemy Number One. But Robert Deluce isn't used to failure—and...
City News
#TorontoIsFailingMe: My seniors’ group safeguards the mall
I came to Canada from Trinidad in 1963. When I retired from my job at the Ministry of Transportation 14 years ago, a couple of...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: My parents worked round-the-clock to lift us out of poverty
My parents fled Sri Lanka as refugees from the civil war, arriving in Canada 30 years ago. My brother, Gobi, was born in 1981. I...
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The Yorkville Swindler: How Albert Allan Rosenberg scammed his way into high society
Looking back, it does seem unlikely that a Swiss billionaire baron would be seeking love on the Internet, but when Antoinette met...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: I want to teach kids that this neighbourhood isn’t a curse
I grew up in a five-bedroom townhouse in the Edgeley Village community housing complex. My whole life I had neighbours and...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: I moved to Mississauga to get away from gang life
I was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 1988. My mother moved to Canada a year later, and my father followed soon after. But they left...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: I ran against Rob Ford and suffered the consequences
My parents came to Toronto from Somalia during the civil war. I’m the fourth of nine children: eight girls and one boy. I still...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: My brother was killed outside a bar, and everyone assumed he was in a gang
My father, Tsehaie Berhane, fled Asmara, Eritrea, in the ’80s during the war with Ethiopia. He was a professor, and the...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: I tried to improve my neighbourhood and got arrested
In 1989, when I was nine, my parents fled the escalating civil war in Somalia, moving me and my two siblings to Windsor. I fit in...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: My students are terrified of getting shot
I took over as principal at Lawrence Heights Middle School in September 2009. I wanted to work in a challenging...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: My apartment tower is infested with cockroaches and bugs
When I first came to Toronto in 1980, I was 24. I remember thinking, What a beautiful city. I came from a very small village in...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: My kid’s school is a disgrace
My wife and I are originally from India, but spent more than a decade living in Abu Dhabi, where I worked as a computer...
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Why Toronto needs to talk about the inner suburbs
The seven-year-old girl above, Amal Syed, came to Canada three years ago from Abu Dhabi. Her father is a computer analyst who left...
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A Winter Hater’s Guide to Loving Winter: how to survive the season in style
This is the era of the polar vortex. Winters are colder, storms are icier and the frost sticks around till May. You could...
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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
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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