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Mary-Margaret McMahon
City News
Upper Beaches residents are pleading for Metrolinx to add noise-reducing barriers
Around 400 Woodbine-Gerrard residents put together a petition
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Real Estate News
“Losing the green roof industry will be costly”: Toronto’s climate-friendly by-law dies without debate
Premier Doug Ford axed the pioneering policy as a repudiation of “red tape”
City News
Street hockey could soon be legal (if your neighbours are cool with it)
Toronto may soon allow street hockey in some areas, as long as residents have the stamina for what sounds like a painstaking...
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...
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City News
The Mighty Middle needs a few more meetings to figure things out
The “mighty middle” alliance garnered rather a lot of media attention before their meeting even happened, so we were anxious...
City News
City hall intrigue: centrist councillors to talk agenda (and, hopefully, eat) at a downtown restaurant
The increasingly powerful “mighty middle” has stepped up the civic intrigue at city hall, according to the Toronto...
City News
Rob Ford learns that charming female colleagues takes more than roses
With conservative councillor Jaye Robinson planning to quit the mayor’s executive committee at the end of this year, the Globe...
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City News
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...
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
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...
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Food & Drink
Nine members of Toronto’s backyard-chicken underground on the special bond between man and bird
On November 30, councillors Joe Mihevc and Mary-Margaret McMahon took on the considerable challenge of trying to overturn nearly...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Mary-Margaret McMahon on the relative noisiness and smelliness of backyard chickens
—Rookie city councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon in a Globe and Mail article, in which Joe Mihevc also points out that hens can go...
Food & Drink
Next year could see the return of chickens to Toronto’s backyards after a 29-year hiatus
An end to Toronto’s backyard chicken prohibition could be in sight, depending on the contents of a city staff report expected...
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City News
New streetcar yard coming to Ashbridges Bay, whether the local councillor likes it or not
As part of the modernization of the streetcar fleet, the TTC decided that it needed a new storage and maintenance shed down at...
City News
In a marathon session, council gives Rob Ford everything he wants
Despite some early bets that the mayor wouldn’t get everything he wanted out of council, Rob Ford has so far gotten everything...
City News
Rob Ford’s to-do list for today: slash budgets, cut taxes, declare TTC an essential service
Toronto’s city council tackles three of Rob Ford ’s biggest priorities today: cutting councillors’ office...
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City News
How Ford-friendly will the new council be? A councillor-by-councillor analysis
“[ Rob Ford ] won’t be able to pass gas without the permission of council.” That was city council bomb-thrower Howard Moscoe...
City News
Least surprising political endorsement ever: John Tory supports Sandra Bussin’s opponent
John Tory ’s clashes with Sandra Bussin are hardly news , but would he go so far as to endorse her opponent? Apparently, yes...
City News
Boardwalk Pub owner pulls the trigger, sues Ford for libel
The battle for the Beach is heating up. It all started back when the city extended Tuggs Inc.’s monopoly on selling food and...
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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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