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Editor’s Letter, September 2011: The Real Spadina Expressway Legacy
Outside the Dupont subway station, at Spadina Road, on the northwest corner, three plaques commemorate the successful battle to...
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Can Dalton McGuinty’s bland-and-boring image withstand the increase in Internet attack campaigns?
Premier Dalton McGuinty has a personal image (as opposed to a political image) that’s about as likely to inflame passion as...
City News
Could the London riots happen in Toronto? The Star’s Christopher Hume says yes
Aside from the obvious, it’s difficult to know what, exactly, to say about the riots in London. But it’s on the top of...
City News
PMO killed the YouTube star: fishin’ buddies Stephen Harper and Rob Ford (briefly) go viral
Prime Minister Stephen Harper , Mayor Rob Ford and a 39-centimetre fish became instant viral sensations last week when a video was...
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Is Rob Ford’s commitment to customer service actually doing more harm than good?
The Globe and Mail put Mayor Rob Ford’ s much-vaunted commitment to customer service—and his pledge to return all the city’s...
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Dalton McGuinty learns an important lesson from Rob Ford
We know that the provincial Liberals are watching the Toronto political scene closely (mostly because they keep telling everybody...
City News
How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
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Is Rob Ford a self-loathing, Tea Party–parroting mayor?
Seriously, we’re not even kidding here. After reading a thought-provoking piece by Toronto Star urban affairs bureau chief David...
City News
Will Melanie Aitken, the Competition Bureau’s feisty and fearless chief, ax the Maple Group’s bid for the Toronto Stock Exchange?
Recently, the Competition Bureau —that part of the Canadian government designed to protect consumers from anti-competitive...
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...
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Dalton McGuinty tries a new election tactic: run against Ottawa, remind everyone of the federal Liberal shellacking
We’re not quite sure yet if this is destined for the Election Strategy Hall of Fame (headquarters to be decided): Dalton...
City News
Another Toronto Star columnist tries out the whole civic government thing
One more case like this and it’ll officially be a trend. First, Rosie DiManno took over the SIU’s investigation into the...
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Tim Hudak would rather not talk about abortion; the Liberals would rather he did
Heading into October’s election, what the ailing Ontario Liberals really need is an issue they can use to drive a wedge between...
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Critics accuse Mayor Ford of getting all Shock Doctrine-y
The Toronto Star never quite comes out and says it, but the basic argument various critics of Rob Ford seem to be making is that...
City News
NAFTA challenges, energy board rulings and the sell-off of AECL: is Ontario’s energy plan unravelling?
One of George Smitherman ’s crowning achievements in provincial politics was the establishment of the Green Energy Act, a...
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Council clears a (straighter) path for the Island airport’s pedestrian tunnel
One of the last pieces of business that city council dealt with on its third day of meetings yesterday was approving a deal with...
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Provincial Liberals blame Rob Ford for GTA transit woes; we admire the province’s chutzpah
As they gear up for the October election, the provincial Liberals have devised a simple plan: reduce their vulnerability to...
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Ottawa wants to build a major new airport in Pickering, despite local MP’s pre-election reservations
As Toronto gets used to the Island airport being a busy hub, we idly wondered when the GTA would get to have another big fight...
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Jack Layton accomplished the impossible (with a little help from the anti-Iggy movement)—now what?
I should start by telling you that you’re my MP. That makes you my boss. Great—so you have to answer all of my...
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Is a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab an unreasonable accomodation?
A case involving a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab is now headed for the Supreme Court. Maybe it’s time to...
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Denzil Minnan-Wong, darling of the taxi industry, wants to force all cab companies to use the same car
Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong may be one of Rob Ford ’s staunchest allies on council, but let it never be said that he isn’t...
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TMX-LSE merger cancelled, Bay Street bankers rejoice
The proposed merger between the Toronto and London stock exchanges is apparently dead in the water. News broke shortly before 1...
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Ontario’s e-waste recycling program is a “Soviet Union-esque” disaster
Okay, we’re not going to go quite as far as the critic who equated the provincially mandated Ontario Electronic Stewardship to...
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Six reasons the International India Film Academy Awards are in Toronto
If you encounter more than the usual number of bhangra dancers on the streets this month, that’s because the International...
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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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