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Philip Preville: A sober assessment of Rob Ford’s shining achievements
Ignore, for a moment, all the sideshow antics that have hijacked his mayoralty. Rob Ford has made some big changes at city hall...
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Rob Ford and the Toronto Sun are breaking up—here, a pair of personal ads to help them move on
Mayor Rob Ford and the Toronto Sun’ s beautiful friendship—a years-long affair based on shared political beliefs, mutual staff...
Food & Drink
The Gravy Train aims to be Toronto’s first “gourmet dippery”
Is gravy the next ramen? Probably not, but if the whole “dipping” restaurant concept takes off, we’ll have The Gravy Train...
City News
Rob Ford’s trip to Chicago, by the headlines
If anyone in Toronto was unaware that Rob Ford and a contingent of councillors and business types headed down to Chicago this...
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Food & Drink
A culinary tour of some of this year’s deep-fried wonders at the CNE
For last year’s Canadian National Exhibition, we brought you eight culinary innovations, including the god-awful (but much...
City News
City hall budget warfare, round two: blanket freeze edition
Last year’s painful budget deliberations may still feel fresh, but it’s already time to start examining the 2013...
City News
Rob Ford does some dodgy math and cuts up his CNE tickets on camera
Over the weekend, the Toronto Sun posted a video of Rob Ford railing against the organizers of the CNE, who had the nerve to send...
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Food & Drink
Colonel Sanders’ autobiography available for free on Facebook
The autobiography of Colonel Harland Sanders that we told you about last year is now available for download to anyone willing to...
City News
Rob Ford returns to his old nemesis: the land transfer tax
Sounding like he was re-using his 2010 election campaign notes, Rob Ford told the Toronto Real Estate Board on Friday that he’d...
City News
The gravy search moves to the Sony Centre and other city-owned theatres
The city has been working for months to off-load one or more of its three theatres—the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, the...
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City News
QUOTED: Rob Ford succumbs to his cravings and quits his weight loss challenge early
— Rob Ford officially quit the “Cut the Waist” challenge on his Newstalk 1010 radio show yesterday, three weeks early and...
City News
Budget committee newbie James Pasternak promises a “floor fight” over cuts
Since learning the city’s 2011 surplus (or “savings”) was $138 more than forecast, city councillors...
City News
Reaction Roundup: councillors on the surprisingly dramatic vote on cleaning contracts
The formerly “mushy middle” and the left-leaners on city council teamed up against another of Rob Ford’ s campaign promises...
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Kids could get out of paying Rob Ford’s field fees—this year, at least
Councillor Janet Davis and like-minded colleagues are poised to block yet another of Rob Ford’ s belt-tightening measures by...
City News
Does Rob Ford have some secret ability to charm unions?
Rob Ford’s administration has avoided any drawn-out work stoppages, which is kind of a shocker for a mayor obsessed with...
City News
Does Rob Ford have secret plans to fire half of Toronto’s librarians? Probably not
Librarians may be bad at chanting, but they’re pretty good with alarmist rhetoric, according to the Globe and Mail’ s Marcus...
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Karen Stintz finds a new way to bug Rob Ford: shut down a subway-focused TTC subsidiary
Now that she's done booting the mayor’s allies off the TTC board, Karen Stintz wants to close a flailing shell corporation...
City News
In a dull and anti-climactic finish to labour negotiations, CUPE ratifies a new collective agreement
CUPE Local 416 has approved a new collective agreement with the Rob Ford administration, and the resolution is surprisingly...
City News
In the wake of the budget defeat, Rob Ford compares his opponents to dogs
After a large portion of his proposed budget was dismantled, Rob Ford, ever gracious, did what any classy politician would do: he...
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Rob Ford’s sister’s long-time boyfriend allegedly utters death threats against the mayor
At the beginning of the week, Rob Ford–related news reports were dominated by ice cream, gravy jokes and his and brother Doug...
City News
The Brothers Ford make the same New Year’s resolution as pretty much everybody else: lose weight
Rob Ford and brother Doug are bringing the gravy hunt really, really close to home. Word is the Fords are committed to losing...
City News
Are Rob Ford’s proposed 2012 budget cuts essentially equivalent to health care cuts?
A group of health care professionals visited city hall early this week with a petition in hand containing nearly 300 signatures...
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Word is a great, big budget shortfall is looming in 2013
The 2012 budget hasn’t even gone before council, and already the Toronto Sun has moved on to 2013. Apparently, a city source...
City News
Toronto’s budget surplus (no, not shortfall) grows by another $8.8 million
The city’s projected budget surplus has grown to $154 million—a nice chunk of change for a metropolis that’s allegedly...
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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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