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Will Rob Ford’s Sheppard subway fantasy die on March 15?
The long-running saga of Rob Ford’ s Sheppard subway dream looks like it will finally reach a not-so-surprising...
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Rob Ford and brother Doug now have their own talk radio show (seriously)
We already knew that Rob Ford prefers to do even the smallest of jobs himself, like, say, moving a pile of sand. Now, it appears...
City News
Toronto city council asks to leave the OMB; developers aren’t into it
Buried under the talk of the city’s transit battle is news that city councillors asked the province to exempt Toronto from the...
City News
Quoted: Rob Ford on “Joe” Stalin, and the city councillors that are apparently just like him
Like his right-hand man Giorgio Mammoliti, Rob Ford can smell the communists in his midst. Ford made the remarks (“Joe”...
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Rob Ford is learning to compromise (or at least it looks like he might be)
Rob Ford has backed down from a plan to sell off hundreds of Toronto Community Housing properties—for now. The mayor released a...
City News
Reaction roundup: city hall votes on the budget
A no-confidence vote, pepper spray and jellyfish; in other words, a look at what the media, protesters and the Twittersphere had...
Food & Drink
Toronto bans shark fin products; sharks everywhere rejoice
Yesterday city council voted in favour of banning the sale of shark fin products within the limits of Toronto. The proposal passed...
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David Miller talks Transit City (again); we listen longingly
The tale of David Miller ’ s life after Toronto politics remind us in a weird way of a relationship where someone breaks up with...
City News
Both sides declare victory on police budget (even though Bill Blair received pretty much everything he wanted)
Rob Ford’ s allies folded like a cheap shirt in the ongoing dispute regarding the police budget. Recall that Chief Bill Blair...
City News
Can Transit City be revived? Apparently, Josh Matlow thinks so
Councillor Josh Matlow wondered aloud this weekend if Transit City might be resurrected, citing Mayor Rob Ford ’ s recent...
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City council considers toll roads (very, very briefly)
Two city councillors have an idea to increase city revenues and—oh, wait, forget it. Councillors Josh Matlow and Doug Holyday...
City News
Doug Ford acquires a new mantle: most recent Toronto city councillor to embarrass himself on the radio
A political rookie, Doug Ford can be forgiven for not knowing that heated calls to talk radio don’t always work out well for...
City News
Is Josh Matlow the overlord of the provincial Liberals? Probably not—but the Grits did announce an environmental assessment for his controversial quarry
One of the issues that Josh Matlow has been following is decidedly outside of his ward: the proposed quarry in Melancthon (about...
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David Miller’s name is being floated for the NDP’s top spot, but can anyone from Toronto win (again)?
With Jack Layton’ s moving funeral now behind us, the new week has NDP candidates quietly leaking their intentions to run to the...
City News
Josh Matlow wants a $500 fine for drivers who park in the curb lane—but will that ever get past city council?
Look out, road hogs— Josh Matlow is coming after you. The rookie councillor is set to put a motion before city council next...
City News
Two more Rob Ford allies pledge their allegiance to Toronto’s new Mayor of the Moment, Margaret Atwood
If the week that was is any indication, the one thing that scares Toronto’s right-leaning councillors more than being caught...
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Jarvis and Scarborough bike lanes die following particularly childish council debate
Well, that’s that: just before taking their lunch break today, council voted to adopt Denzil Minnan-Wong ’s bike network...
City News
Rob Ford, the Liberator? Toronto’s mayor takes on the city’s love of rules
Here’s something that might actually span the political chasm in this town: getting rid of some of Toronto’s more absurd rules...
City News
Councillor loses his piggy, prompting city council to make jokes that were actually kind of funny
In an attempt to remind people of the seriousness of the city’s dire fiscal straits, Toronto budget chief Mike Del Grande has...
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Five things we learned about Doug Ford from Saturday’s Globe and Mail
Doug Ford is a toughie for Toronto press corps to write about. Officially, he’s just another councillor, and a really green one...
City News
Critics cry foul after Ford spams supporters
In anticipation of the cuts to be made by the Rob Ford administration, the city is undertaking a review of its services. Because...
City News
Five things we learned from last night’s garbage debate
Newbie councillor Josh Matlow has spent the last six months very carefully straddling council’s middle, taking a calculated...
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Vandalism of Liberal signs and cars hits four Toronto ridings
Until late last week, Toronto had been spared the election-themed vandalism that’s hit other ridings (notably Ottawa, where a...
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Rob Ford asks council to vote itself out of the plan for garbage privatization
Rob Ford’s plan to privatize garbage collection everywhere west of Yonge Street contains one little detail that is driving his...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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