Real Estate News
Food & Drink
City News
Deep Dives
Culture
Style
Neighbourhoods
Just Listed
Newsletters
Membership
Subscribe
Sign in
George Smitherman
City News
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...
Advertisement
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...
Advertisement
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...
Advertisement
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...
Advertisement
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...
Advertisement
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...
Advertisement
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...
Advertisement
City News
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...
Advertisement
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...
<<
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
>>
Advertisement
Just Listed
Just Listed
For Sale: 25 North Drive
Leave the city in the city
Just Listed
For Sale: 25 Strathgowan Crescent
This Grande Dame of Lawrence Park is an absolute treasure
Just Listed
For Sale: 9 Audubon Court
Welcome to 9 Audubon Court, a Mid-Century Modern retreat among the treetops
Just Listed
For Sale: 500 Wellington St W PH1001
Experience unparalleled luxury in this breathtaking 6,200 sq. ft. penthouse, designed to perfection including a private 2,000 sq. ft. rooftop terrace, complete with a raised glass pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, and unobstructed panoramic city views.
Just Listed
For Sale: 1445 Islington Avenue
Welcome to 1445 Islington, a stunning property located in highly sought-after Edenbridge-Humber Valley
Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
Deep Dives
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
Deep Dives
A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
Deep Dives
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