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Even Toronto city staff thought Kathleen Wynne’s post-ice-storm food handouts were a bad idea
After December's ice storm, premier Kathleen Wynne spearheaded a botched effort to hand out grocery gift cards to needy people who...
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Reaction Roundup: responses to Thursday’s Liberal victory, from most to least pessimistic
Last night's election was a surprising victory for premier Kathleen Wynne ’s Liberals. With a majority government...
City News
Last night’s Liberal win will at least be pretty good for Toronto’s public transit (probably)
Judging by all the newly reddened ridings on the Ontario electoral map , a whole lot of you voted Liberal in yesterday's...
City News
Do you know who you’re voting for in tomorrow’s provincial election?
The 2014 provincial election is on Thursday, and it's bound to be a tough one. Ontario voters have a choice between a Liberal...
City News
Gas plants and folksy anecdotes: a few running themes from last night’s Ontario leaders’ debate
In Tuesday's Ontario leaders' debate, the single most high-profile event in this month's provincial election, PC leader Tim Hudak...
City News
Tim Hudak would cancel the Finch and Sheppard light-rail lines
It has been almost 20 years since the last time a newly elected conservative provincial government cancelled a major Toronto...
City News
Wait—maybe Tim Hudak won’t win a majority, after all
This is why pre-election polls are tricky. Earlier this week, we found out that a survey conducted by Reid had given a slight edge...
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CBC’s
Metro Morning
confirms the obvious: nobody pays attention to Queen’s Park
Anyone who cares about provincial politics may want to sit down before listening to the first two minutes of this segment from...
City News
Toronto is about to be plunged into yet another election
After months of talk and partisan hostility, it's finally happening: Ontario will go to the polls in June. At a press conference...
City News
Queen’s Park wants to make it a little more expensive to be rich in Ontario
Thanks to yet another leak leading up to Thursday's tabling of the 2014 provincial budget, the Star has figured out that Kathleen...
City News
Kathleen Wynne explains how she’ll pay for new transit in the GTA, except not really
During a speech earlier today for the Toronto Region Board of Trade, premier Kathleen Wynne slammed the opposition NDP and...
City News
Olivia Chow calls on the province and the feds to fund Toronto’s Downtown Relief Line
Olivia Chow has a problem. Fellow mayoral candidates are criticizing her relentlessly for not committing to building the downtown...
City News
Queen’s Park document leak sets a date on Kathleen Wynne’s transit-funding announcement
The Ontario Liberals suffered another major embarrassment today when the Star published the details of a confidential...
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Ex-McGuinty chief of staff is the focus of a criminal probe
This right here isn't the type of news the Ontario Liberals want on the front page of the Star in what's likely to be an election...
City News
Kathleen Wynne promises a magical mystery money source for public transit in Toronto
After announcing last week that her Liberal government is ruling out the possibility of using HST and gas-tax hikes to fund...
City News
Queen’s Park backs slowly away from transit-dedicated tax hikes
The provincial Liberal government has produced two reports (one from a blue-ribbon panel, and one from Metrolinx ) that recommend...
City News
Pembina Institute’s message to public-transit voters: pick anyone but the Tories
The Pembina Institute , an environmental think tank, has just released one of its periodic reports on public transit in...
City News
Ontario Liberals are thinking about letting cities ditch first-past-the-post voting
In what seems like a perfect—albeit belated—Valentine's Day gift to Toronto election-reform activists, premier Kathleen Wynne...
Food & Drink
Ontario’s fast-food chains will soon have to reveal calorie counts on menus
It’s about to become a bit more difficult to avoid the shame associated with consuming an entire day’s calories in a single...
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Ontario’s election watch approaches red alert
Queen's Park has been bracing for a possible springtime election for months, and now we know what might cause it: new fees for...
City News
Reaction Roundup: the eight essential quotes about Rob Ford’s jailhouse beatdown accusations
The latest bombshell in the Rob Ford crack scandal dropped on Wednesday afternoon, when Scott MacIntyre , the mayor's former...
City News
Justin Bieber officially has an even worse reputation than the Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs may be chronic underperformers, but we'll say this for them: they're no longer anywhere close to being...
City News
Rob Ford asks Queen’s Park for money just days after claiming Toronto has $50 million to spare
It's never easy for a mayor to wrangle funding from Queen's Park, but the process is especially tricky when that same mayor spends...
City News
Grocery gift cards for storm victims have gone from feel-good story to political liability
The provincial government’s grocery gift cards for ice-storm victims should have been a feel-good story. Government and private...
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Summer Camp Guide
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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
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
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
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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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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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