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Pride Toronto’s severe case of TGIF: how the gay and lesbian festival ended up having one of its worst weeks ever
This has been a nasty week for Pride Toronto. The bad news started on Wednesday, when it came out that Pride had overspent its...
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City News
Dog’s best friend: the story behind the Toronto Humane Society’s mutiny, raid and shutdown
Tim Trow had one sacred rule for the Toronto Humane Society: save every pet. But the shelter grew overcrowded and chaotic, the...
City News
Smaller government be damned: Ford’s first budget grows ranks of city staff
One of the biggest ways that Rob Ford said he would be able to reduce city spending was to hire only half as many people as left...
City News
Should Queen’s Park run the TTC instead of city hall? Apparently, it’s up for discussion
Reporters who get obsessed with obscure matters are our favourites because it’s impossible to tell where that kind of tenacious...
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Reaction roundup: what the country is saying about Stephen Harper’s fifth anniversary as prime minister
Sunday was big in Ottawa. January 23 marked five years ago to the day that Stephen Harper won his first election victory. His talk...
Real Estate News
Vista-marring condos to go up behind Queen’s Park
The pink palace that houses the Ontario Legislature is about to lose a bit of its charm. Yesterday, Dalton McGuinty said the...
City News
New poll shows Torontonians’ hate of LRTs has been greatly exaggerated
Since election day, the debate over transit in Toronto has been reduced to a logical fallacy: people voted for Rob Ford . Ford...
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City News
Diesel vs. electric trains: study vindicates Clean Train Coalition on debate over rail line to Pearson (but the province is buying diesel cars anyway)
Finally, a transit story that has absolutely nothing to do with Transit City. This one’s about a basic disagreement over...
Real Estate News
Conservatives bring in new mortgage restrictions, suggest some Canadians can’t manage their money
Ottawa was abuzz with speculation this morning, when the feds announced an early press conference with Jim Flaherty . Was it to be...
City News
Conservatives release video attack ads that are more like skipping records
Inevitably, when a band has had a few good years of success, it’s tempting to re-package some of its greatest hits, throw in a...
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City News
Happy anniversary: celebrating 10 years of gay marriage in Canada with Jack Layton and Peter Tabuns
Last Friday was the 10th anniversary of the first legal gay marriages in the world, and the two married couples responsible for...
City News
Who’s afraid of the big, bad provinces? Stephen Harper, that’s who
Timidity isn’t something Stephen Harper and his government stand accused of very often. But some of the news this week did bring...
City News
Oshawa mayor wanted Toronto’s Transit City money to fund expansion of the 407
The city of Oshawa, fresh from electing a man to city council without knowing he couldn’t take the job, is now in an uproar over...
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Dwight Duncan: the HST is saving Ontario’s economy—no, really!
The Harmonized Sales Tax may be one of the Liberal government’s biggest weaknesses in the coming election, so they’ve opted to...
City News
Ontario commits $5 million to war on bedbugs
We’re sure it has nothing to do with it being an election year in which Toronto’s vote- and bedbug-rich ridings will be a...
City News
GTA slowly becoming election battleground: Julian Fantino makes it to cabinet, Peter Kent gets a promotion
With the news breaking last night that there was going to be a cabinet shuffle this afternoon, all eyes turned to Ottawa, where...
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Food & Drink
Invasivores rejoice: Five edible species from our own backyard
Vegans, freegans, locavores: eco-conscious dining takes many forms. The New Year could herald an addition to that list with the...
City News
Rob Ford decides to sack the Toronto bag fee
Back during the 2010 mayoral election, Rob Ford was asked what he thought of the five cents plastic bag fee by the Toronto Sun...
City News
Toronto’s five best and worst political moments of 2010
As 2010 winds down, we can’t help but think of what a crazy year it’s been in Toronto politics. The city has had the kind of...
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2010 Lexicon: 11 new words that entered our vocabulary this past year
1. true belieber \troo bih-leeb-er\ n. (2010): Self-designative term adopted by mega-fans of Canadian entertainer Justin...
City News
Conservatives’ love-hate relationship with immigrants continues with cuts to settlement funding
Over the past several years (and elections), the Conservative Party has been trying hard to wrest the votes of new Canadians from...
Culture
Toronto Sun and PMO renew their fury over SummerWorks’ terrorism-themed play
Surprise, surprise: there’s drama brewing in the Toronto theatre community. The commotion involves a stage festival, a...
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City News
Who is more deluded: Rob Ford or the labour unions?
Rob Ford’s first—and nastiest—fight will be with organized labour. The unions are saying “bring it” The garbage strike...
City News
Canada ♥ regulation: banks will be asked to test their debt loads
After the news came out last week that Canadian debt levels were at an all-time high , it was probably inevitable that the feds...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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