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Toronto Star really, really, really wants you to know Thomson has left the mayoral race
That’s a picture of the Google News results for the Star ’s reporting on Sarah Thomson in the past 24 hours or so. Notice...
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City News
Comparing the Ford and Smitherman financial plans: different ideas, same big question marks
Coincidences are rare in politics, so it makes perfect sense that the two leading contenders to be mayor of Toronto released their...
City News
Mr. Popular: Why Rob Ford’s winning over Toronto
By any measure he’s a terrible candidate for mayor. But his obsession with cost-cutting and his contempt for City Hall have pushed him to the front of the pack. The unlikely allure of Rob Ford
City News
And then there were four*: Sarah Thomson drops campaign bid, endorses Smitherman
It’s official: Sarah Thomson has announced that her cash-strapped, anemically polling campaign is calling it a race and...
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City News
Conrad Black takes time out of his busy schedule to endorse Sarah Thomson
There are some endorsements that a campaign could be excused for running away from. When a convicted felon, say, sends a campaign...
City News
Last night’s mayoral debate was one that voters should actually have watched
After approximately as many debates as there are grains of sand at Sugar Beach, Toronto voters could be forgiven for running as...
City News
Election slide show: what do the mayoral front-runners’ lawn signs say about them?
With September mostly done, the city is finally seeing the arrival of that most invasive of electoral species: the lawn sign. The...
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Food & Drink
Toronto Star confirms what we already know: A la Cart has been a total fiasco
When the city and provincial governments got together so that people could buy food that wasn't a hot dog from street vendors, the...
City News
Ford-pocalypse: poll shows Rob Ford destroying the competition—even downtown
After weeks of the election being dominated by campaign stunts and debates that the press barely pretend to pay attention to...
City News
38 Tories endorse Smitherman—but not John Tory, who says, “I’m not endorsing for mayor”
We’ve said before that former premier Mike Harris is politically toxic in this city, but we’ll eat our words if this latest...
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City News
It had to happen: Toronto mayoral candidates suffer from debate overload
Last night, the inevitable finally occurred. With approximately one squillion debates scheduled for this municipal election, some...
Culture
In rant at the Four Seasons, Peter Fonda proves that he’s mad as hell about something
Hollywood is fraught with uncertainty, but one thing we can all count on is that somewhere in Tinseltown, a Fonda has an opinion...
City News
The Rob Ford echo: mayoral front-runners suddenly sound a lot like Rob Ford
With Rob Ford solidly in the lead of the mayoral race, the other four candidates are all trying to figure out how to claw down his...
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City News
Rob Ford unveils transit plan: remove streetcars, get cyclists off roads, expand subway only in burbs
Well the last horse has finally crossed the finish line: the Rob Ford campaign has put out a transit policy, allowing us to...
City News
Mayoral hopefuls praise Toronto film industry, The Simpsons
This morning—that is, the morning before TIFF—the four males of Toronto's five leading mayoral hopefuls gathered at the lot...
City News
Labour Day is over. We now return to our regularly scheduled mayoral campaign, already in progress
The same phrase has been delivered by every candidate in the mayoral race so far (especially those not in first place): “the...
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City News
Total Recall: Rocco Rossi wants Torontonians to be able to sack their councillors by petition
We'll be the first to acknowledge that election campaigns are fun. There's shouting, polls, shouting, the occasional policy...
City News
Strategist extraordinaire Warren Kinsella grabs a bucket, starts bailing out the SS Rocco Rossi
As Toronto's mayoral campaign enters the home stretch, it's looking worse and worse for Rocco Rossi 's campaign. A Toronto Star...
City News
Shocker! Jack Layton endorses Joe Pantalone
We don't imagine there were that many NDP voters in the city who were wondering which candidate, exactly, was the left-most choice...
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Ford’s up, Rossi’s down and Miller could still win: Toronto gets a confusing new poll about the mayoral race
Political junkies in the city were finally blessed at 4:04 yesterday afternoon with the news they’d been waiting for: a new...
City News
Rob Ford calls out Adam Vaughan: “Be a man” and join the mayoral race
Speaking with John Oakley today on AM640, mayoral race front-runner Rob Ford made a wish: for Adam Vaughan to join the mayor's...
City News
Smitherman tries to get by with a little help from his friends
Over the past six months, we've catalogued a few examples of how Toronto has been ignored by the McGuinty government. The short...
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City News
Bubbes and zaydes treated to spicier-than-normal mayoral election debate
With the news out yesterday about Rob Ford 's idea of a romantic weekend away , it was a sure bet that there would be fireworks...
City News
After initial forgetfulness, Rob Ford comes clean on the time he was caught with pot and refused to take a breathalyzer
Rob Ford has had what anyone would call a pretty bad week. After his performance at the debate on Tuesday night, Wednesday was...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
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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