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Immigration conflagration: we talk to the five front-runners about Rob Ford’s “enough’s enough” stand on newcomers
In case you missed it, at Tuesday night's CP24 mayoral debate, Rob Ford said: There's some argument about the numbers that Ford...
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Seven Long Years: How will David Miller be remembered?
As a kvetchy, largely ineffective do-gooder ultimately undone by the unionists who helped elect him Unless Joe Pantalone, the...
City News
Latest mayoral debate: Ford opposes immigration and giving credit to Suzan Hall, proposes scrapping the land transfer tax
With the mayoral election just over two months away, the front-running candidates are upping their game when it comes to the...
City News
Newspapers jump on sketchy mayoral race poll showing Rob Ford in the lead
It's been a while since a major voter intention poll was put out for Toronto's mayoral race—the last one, confirming that George...
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Breaking news: Rob Ford has said some offensive things in the past
The George Smitherman campaign unveiled its latest attack on Rob Ford yesterday, fordonford.com. If anyone wasn't aware, Ford has...
City News
Latest chapter in mayoral debate wars: seniors attack!
The latest in the never-ending series of mayoral debates got surprisingly feisty: in a packed, sweltering auditorium at Ryerson...
City News
Question: does the mayor deserve a $16,000 raise? Answer: it’s an election year
Received wisdom dictates that it's never a good time for a politician to get a raise. For this reason, the city has tried to take...
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Post-Tory stress disorder: Toronto’s media finds post-Tory mayoral race confusing
He never announced his mayoral bid, never campaigned and never did any fundraising, but Toronto sure spent a magical summer...
City News
Rob Ford endorses, is endorsed by pride-dissing, anti-gay-marriage pastor. Hilarity ensues
The story of the day, as far as city politics goes, is Rob Ford 's endorsement of Wendell Brereton —the pastor of Glorious...
City News
Marginal charges, maximal outrage: the Sun takes on bag fees
We noted yesterday that the Toronto Sun , in high dudgeon over city councillors' spending habits, was busy making a mountain out...
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All five leading mayoral candidates finally agree on one thing: no party politics in city council
Last week we noted that city council is going to have a decidedly less morgue-like Wall Street Journal since there are 11 open...
City News
Why did the chicken cross the road? Maybe because he was paid to make fun of Rob Ford
The race for the mayor’s chair is still a five-person (or six-person, if you count ghost candidate John Tory ) affair. Rob Ford...
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CFRB indulges our fantasies by pretending there are only two candidates for mayor
In the gruelling, seemingly endless slog for mayor, Toronto’s voters have roughly 30 different candidates to consider (no...
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Furious George on Adam Giambrone: “We should be glad he will soon be out of our hair”
Furious George has managed to keep his cool in public of late—perhaps his epic stroll across the city is part of his new Zen...
City News
CP24’s third mayoral debate actually has some fireworks
The five front-running mayoral candidates all gathered around CP24’s table last night to discuss Toronto’s most important...
City News
Outrage of the week: Niagara takes out ads slamming Toronto, Toronto takes offence
Any Torontonian wondering what he or she should be angry about next, wonder no longer: the Niagara Parks Commission has released a...
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Sarah Thomson solidifies position as leading daydreamer of the mayoral race
Sarah Thomson may not be leading in the polls, but when it comes to Toronto’s mayoral race, she’s clearly leading the pack in...
City News
Smitherman chases the limelight on foot through Etobicoke
The summer doldrums have put a bit of a damper on Toronto’s mayoral election. There have been no high-profile debates for a...
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Nightmare on Queen Street: casting the Toronto mayoral race
With new polls putting Rob Ford in a dead heat with George Smitherman, the mayoral race is finally getting a much-needed infusion...
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Premature ejection: Giorgio Mammoliti is out of the mayoral race. Who’s next?
It’s official : Giorgio Mammoliti is out of the race for mayor of Toronto. After struggling for months to get outside of the...
City News
Rossi ahead in virtual reality; actual reality still eludes him
Ever since Rob Ford entered the race, Rocco Rossi has been having a hard time of it. Being dethroned as the right-wing opposition...
City News
Smitherman calls for more amalgamation: merger of fire department, paramedics
If merging Scarborough and Etobicoke was the kind of thing that only a hard-headed provincial politician could do, maybe this is...
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Yet another mayoral debate: Mammoliti is sensible, Pantalone is lonely and Tory’s Hamlet act gets old
The latest debate featured Rob Ford and George Smitherman sniping at each other—what else is new? We're turning our gaze to some...
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Latest debate sees Ford, Smitherman compete for irrelevance to black community
Given that they're signed up for literally dozens of debates, it's easy to believe that the mayoral candidates run out of things...
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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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