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Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
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Philip Preville: How the crumbling Gardiner became a symbol for all that ails Toronto
While city hall spent a decade debating what to do with the Gardiner—Demolish it? Bury it? Raise it?—the expressway fell into...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s shark fin ban is overturned by the courts
That didn’t last long: on Friday, the Ontario Superior Court overturned the ban on the sale of shark fins, which city council...
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Karen Stintz meets with Rob Ford’s staff and brings OneCity back from the brink
Another day, another twist in the OneCity saga. On Wednesday, TTC chair Karen Stintz publicly mused that she didn’t have the...
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The province doesn’t like OneCity (but Torontonians really, really do)
Now that OneCity, the mega-proposal that promises transit for all, has been ceremoniously unveiled, it turns out the province...
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Reaction Roundup: The OneCity proposal sparked lots of chatter and crowned an alternate mayor
With cloak-and-dagger plans, alliance building and power shifts, Toronto politics has veered into epic poem territory of...
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Karen Stintz created a game-changing $30-billion transit proposal (without consulting Rob Ford)
Transit rogue Karen Stintz has done it again—after spending the winter annihilating all of Rob Ford’ s transit ideas, the TTC...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 13, because there’s a national park in the middle of Scarborough
Stories of vanishing ecosystems and endangered species are such a grimly familiar refrain, it’s a spirit-lifting relief when...
City News
TTC staff eat an impressive amount of doughnuts—but aren’t so good with submitting receipts
Severe reprimands seem to be the trend this week at the Toronto Transit Commission; first came one from TTC chief exec Andy...
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...
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Rob Ford would prefer that councillors not buy office supplies—especially fancy ones
After the release of city council’s expense reports on Friday, Rob Ford expressed his usual moral indignation over some...
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Karen Stintz triumphs over Rob Ford (again)—though it may not be the coup it seems
Yesterday, council voted 29-15 —a solid majority—in favour of Karen Stintz’ s plan to blow up the nine-councillor transit...
Food & Drink
Toronto bans shark fin products; sharks everywhere rejoice
Yesterday city council voted in favour of banning the sale of shark fin products within the limits of Toronto. The proposal passed...
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Council to vote on shark fin ban today
City council is set to vote later today on whether to ban shark fin products in Toronto, an issue that came to our attention when...
Food & Drink
City staff: banning the sale of shark fins pretty much impossible for Toronto
After the City of Brantford banned all foods that included shark fin—an ingredient culled from endangered species and...
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Mayor Rob Ford receives another death threat, but apparently that’s just part of the job—or so says Mel Lastman
Criticizing the mayor is one thing, and we recognize that sometimes even a little violent rhetoric and some obvious hyperbole help...
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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...
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Councillor loses his piggy, prompting city council to make jokes that were actually kind of funny
In an attempt to remind people of the seriousness of the city’s dire fiscal straits, Toronto budget chief Mike Del Grande has...
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Glenn De Baeremaeker proposes city-wide shark fin ban, taking a cue from…Brantford?
A couple weeks ago, the city of Brantford—yes, that Brantford—raised eyebrows when city councillors voted unanimously to ban...
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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...
City News
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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2011 budget debate, day one: toilets, puppies and earnest appeals to Toronto’s better nature. No, really
After weeks of debate in the columns of Toronto’s dailies, and an occasional public consultation or four, city council got down...
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Ford brothers send flowers to all the women on Toronto city council
Hey, it’s Valentine’s Day: in a move that shows that rivals can still be kind even in a nasty political atmosphere, mayor Rob...
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On its second day of work, council gets down to the important stuff: food and bruised egos
If yesterday was any indication, Rob Ford is in for a long four years. As the council met to approve choices for who got what...
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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
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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
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
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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
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative