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Federal finance minister and Ford-family pal Jim Flaherty resigns from Harper’s cabinet
Several news outlets are reporting that federal finance minister Jim Flaherty , MP for Whitby-Oshawa, is resigning his post in...
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City News
The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: what the experts are predicting for Toronto’s housing market in 2014
With the end of the year in sight, real estate experts are scrutinizing sales data, demographic trends and interest rates to try...
City News
Five things we learned from CP24’s rare interview with Rob Ford’s mother and sister
When asked about the ever-widening scandal surrounding Rob Ford, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty— a close family friend—choked...
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City News
A tragicomic scrapbook of Rob Ford’s crazy, blunder-filled mayoralty
We expected a bumpy ride with Ford as mayor, but we weren’t prepared for a self-sabotaging Lindsay Lohan of politics. With a new...
Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: the housing market in 2012 was hot, then cold
In the first half of 2012, Toronto homebuyers faced rapidly escalating prices, bidding wars and “phantom bids.” In the second...
City News
50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
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Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: the average house price in Toronto is now over $800,000
In most of Canada, home prices are starting to stagnate (or even fall), suggesting that the country’s real estate market is...
City News
Editor’s Letter (September 2012): real estate crazy
A few blocks down the street from me, in Seaton Village, there’s a beautiful three-storey house with four bedrooms and...
Culture
Guests and programming announced for TIFF Asian Film Summit
TIFF has confirmed the programming (and guests) for its Asian Film Summit, which will be held on September 10 at the...
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Real Estate News
What bubble? RBC says Toronto condo’s market won’t crash
The city’s condo boom may be keeping both Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney up at night, but...
Real Estate News
Will Canada’s new mortgage rules zap Toronto’s condo boom?
We’ve been wondering what the new federal mortgage regulations will mean for Toronto’s real estate market (especially since...
Real Estate News
Ottawa tightens up mortgage rules to calm the hot, hot housing market
The runaway real estate market in Canadian cities (and whispers and shouts of bubble trouble) is worrying Finance Minister Jim...
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City News
Rouge Valley gets $144 million to become Canada’s first national park in a city
As the federal government promised nearly a year ago, a massive stretch of the Rouge Valley will become Canada’s first urban...
City News
The weirdest mayoralty ever—the inside story of Rob Ford’s city hall
On Newstalk 1010, the sly strains of the Hollies hit “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” offered the first clue. Then...
Real Estate News
Toronto’s record-breaking condo market spurs more unchecked optimism and dire warnings
Toronto’s gravity-defying condo market continues to set records. Over 6,000 freshly built condos were sold in Toronto in the...
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City News
Insurance brokers vs. banks: insurers call foul on RBC and BMO
Canada’s biggest banks seem to be the subject of a strange amount of scandal of late. This month alone, a massive lawsuit was...
City News
Tony Keller: why the obvious fix for the country’s collective pension problem is being ignored
Last fall, the Royal Bank of Canada—with $27 billion in annual revenue, $752 billion in assets and 74,000 employees, the biggest...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Jim Balsillie’s out, execs are getting fired…what the heck is going on at RIM?
After a few weeks of relative quiet from Research in Motion, the company dropped a big pile of news on the world yesterday: the...
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City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
City News
Reaction roundup: local media have a difficult time saying anything interesting about Occupy Toronto
The Occupy Everywhere movement spread to Canada on Saturday, with protesters setting up camp in St. James Park in Toronto, among...
City News
Tim Hudak spent his life climbing the Tory ladder and now he has a shot at taking over Queen’s Park—but can he convince voters he’s more than just Mike Harris lite?
Tim Hudak is riding in the back of an RV, a big, bouncy RV wrapped in an enormous picture of his smiling face, and he’s coming...
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City News
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
Ottawa drops its “new” budget with few changes from March—only more deficit anxiety
The federal election may have changed Parliament’s political makeup, but it seems to have changed relatively little in the minds...
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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Buy Canadian
Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“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