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Reaction Roundup: what the revival of Transit City could mean for Toronto (and Rob Ford)
The whole "war on cars" talking point feels so 2009 (and 2010… and 2011), but now that Metrolinx and city council have pushed...
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City News
Poll fever hits Toronto newspapers—and Rob Ford’s looking good
A recent poll suggests that 64.7 per cent of Torontonians love reading news stories about polls. Actually, we made that up, but...
City News
Reaction Roundup: the fallout over Rob Ford’s decision not to march in the Pride Parade—again
It feels like déjà vu: despite getting tons of flak for not attending any Pride Toronto events last year, Rob Ford has once...
Real Estate News
Five things we learned about Toronto’s real estate bidding wars from the Globe and Mail
Some basic math: one hot Toronto housing market plus several banks offering historically low mortgage rates equals some seriously...
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City News
Ragtag band of councillors mounts opposition to the big, bad budget cuts of 2012
As the 2012 budget trudges its way through council, we’re hearing more and more reports of councillors conspiring to save...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.9 million for an immaculately restored Victorian near U of T
ADDRESS: 61 Brunswick Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD: University AGENT: Kevin Alvarez, Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., Brokerage...
City News
Rogers and Bell buy MLSE (and now own every Canadian sports team, stadium and channel ever)
Less than two weeks after the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan announced it was taking its majority share of Maple Leaf Sports and...
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Food & Drink
Six things we learned from the Globe’s feature on Grant van Gameren, Enoteca Sociale’s new executive chef
Last month we reported that Grant van Gameren, formerly of The Black Hoof , was working the stoves at Lucien (although the...
City News
The Conversation: artist-illustrators Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu on art, wine and wolverines
The place: The Gem on Davenport. The people: artist-illustrators Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu. The subjects: art, wine and...
City News
Presidential hopeful Rick Perry tricked by the Globe and Mail, cites fake Occupy Toronto protester
A clueless Occupy Toronto protester was easy prey for Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry, who cited the dunce last Friday...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $9 million for a stately Casa Loma mansion on Forest Hill Road
ADDRESS: 49 Forest Hill Road NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma AGENT: Susan Eickmeier, Royal LePage J&D Division, Brokerage PRICE:...
City News
Major daily newspapers offer totally predictable political endorsements for the provincial election
Toronto’s various daily newspapers have announced their endorsements for Ontario premier, and most of the recommendations are...
City News
Rob Ford dips into the provincial politics water—but we were hoping he’d make a bigger splash
The Globe and Mail is reporting that Mayor Rob Ford has “waded into the provincial election campaign”—although we think...
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City News
Conservative spies are infiltrating the Liberal ranks (or at least the Liberals say they are)
Earlier today, we called for a little muckraking from Queen’s Park reporters to shake up what’s turning out to be a remarkably...
City News
Doug Ford’s waterfront fantasy meets numbers and facts
The buzz-kills over at the Globe and Mail have thrown cold water all over Doug Ford’ s plans for the Port Lands. Chief among the...
City News
Strange bedfellows? Stephen Harper chooses Toronto Star columnist Angelo Persichilli as his new PR chief
Ottawa has been abuzz this week with rumours surrounding who will replace Dimitri Soudas as Stephen Harper’ s director of...
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Food & Drink
The vodka backlash backlash is here, apparently
Today’s Globe and Mail has a piece about the anti-vodka movement, championed by people like the Black Hoof’ s Jen Agg, and the...
City News
What smart, innovative cities are doing to combat gridlock (Toronto not included)
Believe it or not, Toronto isn’t the only city dealing with traffic congestion (paging Los Angeles ). Big or small, old or...
Food & Drink
Pricier wines garner higher ratings—but only if you’re “materialistic”
Frances Woolley, a Carleton economics professor, posted an interesting story on the the Globe and Mail’ s Economy Lab blog...
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Culture
Canadian co-production director wrote a letter to Stephen Harper to get David Strathairn a spot in her film
That’s just one of the many fun facts about David Strathairn in a short profile of the Academy Award– nominated actor by...
Food & Drink
LINK: Harvesting Toronto’s fruit bounty apparently not as easy as it sounds
We’ve noted the Toronto NGO Not Far From the Tree before, and over the weekend the Globe and Mail had a story about the group...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Is this the beginning of the end for Rob Ford?
This week wasn’t a good one for Mayor Rob Ford . Between his brother Doug insulting Margaret Atwood (and then having Chapters...
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City News
Rob Ford’s ex–campaign chief receives a little gravy from B.C.’s HST fight
Here’s an interesting story, reported by the Globe and Mail and flagged by the CBC’s Kady O’Malley . The government of...
Food & Drink
The Black Hoof’s Jen Agg takes on the latest cocktail trend—barrel aging
Inspired by the experiments of Portland bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler , forward-thinking mixologists across the continent have...
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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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