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City News
Rob Ford gets kicked out of council chambers for (what else?) not apologizing for doing something wrong
It started as most things do with Rob Ford : with a dispute over a vanishingly small amount of money. At today's city council...
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John Tory’s first actions as mayor aren’t divisive, they’re just smart
The Rob Ford era is over. Even if you didn’t catch a glimpse of John Tory’s swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, you can feel the...
City News
Rob Ford almost apologizes for accusing all councillors except Mammoliti of being corrupt
Rob Ford has lost much of his political clout, but his sense of outrage is still very much intact. On Monday, he helped bring a...
City News
The definitive guide to the supporters and opponents of a Toronto casino
After more than a year of debate, Toronto’s still-hypothetical casino will soon face a crucial test. A long-awaited city staff...
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Rob Ford re-ignites his election campaign at the biggest Ford Fest ever
Forget TIFF: The biggest party this weekend was Rob Ford’s annual barbecue. No, seriously—Ford Fest attracted more than 6,000...
City News
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...
City News
Parade battleground: Rob Ford considers a big Canada Day event for the same weekend as Pride
On his last Newstalk 1010 show until September, Rob Ford entertained the idea of a big, celebratory parade held in Toronto on July...
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Which city councillors are most like which Game of Thrones characters?
Yesterday, the Toronto Standard posted a roundup comparing Rob Ford, Karen Stintz, Giorgio Mammoliti and other city hall figures...
City News
Metrolinx says the Air Rail Link is supposed to be express (so stop asking for more stops)
Just days after the unlikely team of Mike Layton and Frances Nunziata called for more stops on the rail link to Pearson...
City News
Should the Air Rail Link to Pearson Airport have more stops?
Forming an unlikely alliance, councillors Mike Layton and Frances Nunziata are asking Metrolinx to add more stops to the line from...
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Rob Ford learns that charming female colleagues takes more than roses
With conservative councillor Jaye Robinson planning to quit the mayor’s executive committee at the end of this year, the Globe...
City News
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...
City News
Rob Ford could lose another crucial council battle over, um, plastic bags
Apparently bored with actual news, the Toronto Sun conducted a poll of city councillors to see if Rob Ford has the votes necessary...
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Frances Nunziata proposes a new vehicle registration tax (i.e. licensing cyclists)
Councillor Frances Nunziata is talking about licensing cyclists, an idea that’s regularly floated at city hall and always met...
City News
Reformed commie—and now avowed red hunter—Giorgio Mammoliti breaks rank and returns to his union roots
Giorgio Mammoliti , apparently a political chameleon of the highest degree, has once again found a labour cause that he can get...
City News
Two more Rob Ford allies pledge their allegiance to Toronto’s new Mayor of the Moment, Margaret Atwood
If the week that was is any indication, the one thing that scares Toronto’s right-leaning councillors more than being caught...
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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...
City News
The name game: city councillors look to scrap “priority neighbourhood” label
In a bid to distance themselves from previous strategies that involved public investment and social programs—heaven forbid—a...
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Is Rob Ford going to attend Pride after all?
Mayor Rob Ford missed the beginning of Pride Week yesterday, sending council s peaker Frances Nunziata in his stead to the raising...
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Is council’s vote to sell off 22 TCHC assets the beginning of a Toronto social housing fire sale?
A day after Mayor Rob Ford mused about selling Casa Loma , he and a large majority of councillors voted to divest city hall of a...
City News
Council votes to start the trash privatization process—but is the mayor already losing his magic touch?
Yesterday’s council debate started, fittingly, with a little trash talk. Rob Ford unleashed his inner loudmouth (which is...
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Council votes to fire TCHC board, but not before hours of hilarity, weirdness, jazz hands and unwitting racism
The headline news out of city council last night was that, as expected, Mayor Rob Ford and his allies voted 25–18 to dismiss the...
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Key to getting a top gig in the Ford mayoralty? Endorse Ford, or be Karen Stintz
We’re just over a week away from the first days of the Rob Ford mayoralty, and the buzz over whom he’ll be relying on to herd...
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Councillors’ expenses for 2010: city hall’s five winners and five losers
The city has released the data on councillors' expenses for 2010: because of the election, their annual allowances are less, and...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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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