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Suburbs versus downtown: who-voted-for-whom election maps confirm what everyone already knew
The City of Toronto released its official vote counts today, and this being 2010, the first thing smart folks did was put together...
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The Globe tells us how it all went wrong for George Smitherman (or, five lessons for Adam Vaughan on how not to run for mayor)
The Globe and Mail has an in-depth investigation of where everything went wrong for the mayoral campaign of George...
City News
Reaction roundup: what the world is saying about Rob Ford’s win
Toronto’s mayoral election has made the news not just in Toronto and Canada, but around the world (we made the big time, or at...
City News
Swing to the right: it’s a whole new Toronto as Rob Ford and many right-wingers win offices at city hall
The election spanned 11 months, but counting the ballots took only a few minutes. At 8:08 p.m.—480 seconds after polls...
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End-game: in last hours of election, things get even uglier
Like February 29th for the perpetually cynical, election day is that one moment every four years when municipal politics junkies...
City News
Social media in Toronto’s election: a sampling of blunders
One of the much talked-about aspects of Calgary’s recent election has been how Naheed Nenshi successfully transformed social...
City News
Mo Problems, Mo Money: Ford’s scandals brought in a ton of cash, but less than Pantalone
Politicians spend a lot of time and money trying to avoid scandals, except, of course, for when they don’t . The latest...
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City News
Head versus heart: Toronto’s lefties grapple with their choice—Pantalone or not-Ford?
As the campaign enters its final five days, the basic divide doesn’t seem to be changing much: Rob Ford and George Smitherman...
City News
Final TV debate of the mayor’s race features even more shouting than normal
Last night, the three front-running candidates for the mayor’s office— Rob Ford , George Smitherman and Joe Pantalone —sat...
City News
Calgary humiliates Toronto with its election results
With all the hubbub around Toronto’s municipal election—and it has received attention far beyond our little hamlet—we'd...
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City News
One week out, Toronto’s election gets crazier by the day
The polls will close in just over a week, but the election race in Toronto keeps getting odder and odder. Here’s a roundup of...
City News
Toronto’s weekend of entirely unsurprising mayoral endorsements
While the Globe was getting into some trouble Saturday morning with its Ford-is-fat story, the Toronto Sun and Toronto Star both...
City News
The anyone-but-Ford bandwagon gets a bit more cramped: Adam Vaughan endorses Smitherman
With the election now 10 days away and polls being increasingly unkind to anyone but the front-runners (that’s...
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And then there were three: after one last terrible, horrible, no good, very bad poll, Rocco Rossi drops out of the race
Arriving at the Rocco Rossi campaign headquarters at 9 p.m. last night was pretty surreal for the glut of reporters who responded...
City News
Peter C. Newman and six Rocco Rossi staffers defect to Smitherman. Let the sniping begin
Yesterday afternoon, the news broke that six former staffers for the Rocco Rossi campaign were defecting and signing on with...
City News
Rob Ford plagued by drive-by smears again
It’s hard out here for a front-runner: Rob Ford , having swatted down anonymous Web ads two weeks ago that referred to him as...
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George Smitherman proposes expert council to reform city; existing city council apparently unqualified
Yesterday, while racking up the endorsement of former mayor John Sewell , George Smitherman unveiled his latest idea for reforming...
City News
Oakville’s lesson for Toronto: if you complain loud enough, Queen’s Park will cave
In a principled and well thought-out plan, the Ontario government yesterday announced that, after much public outcry, they will...
City News
Mayor shocks no one by endorsing his deputy mayor, Joe Pantalone
Rumours circled yesterday evening, and this morning at 11 they were all confirmed. Mayor David Miller has endorsed his...
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Anyone-but-Ford movement gathers steam: Joe Mihevc jumps off Pantalone’s ship and onto the deck of the S.S. Smitherman
As the early polls opened today, Sarah Thomson made good on her endorsement of George Smitherman and cast her early ballot for the...
City News
Rossi unveils finance plan that doesn’t involve magic
In his race for the mayor’s office, Rocco Rossi has made some pretty big promises: privatizing Toronto Hydro, building subways...
City News
Top Rossi aide preparing to jump ship, order doughnuts
The most delicious story this Monday morning has to be the Globe ’s report on a top Rocco Rossi aide who is contemplating...
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City News
Like magic, TTC and Queen’s Park find some common ground on Presto
One of the most bizarrely acrimonious fights in the city over the past few months has been not over who pays for transit, or how...
City News
YouTube backlash: Adam Giambrone’s TTC opus proves once again that he just can’t do video
Adam Giambrone hasn't been a candidate for mayor since The Incident , but even he wants to get in on the game that Rob Ford and...
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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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