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Mayoral Race 2010
City News
Rocco Rossi releases new campaign ads that will be unappealing to pretty much everybody
If Rocco Rossi ’s campaign has had one strength, it has been its use of the Internet (mostly YouTube, Twitter, Google, Flickr...
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City News
Ford-pocalypse: poll shows Rob Ford destroying the competition—even downtown
After weeks of the election being dominated by campaign stunts and debates that the press barely pretend to pay attention to...
City News
Boardwalk Café owner giving Ford a choice: apology or lawsuit
The long-running drama over the city’s decision to grant George Foulidis a 20-year monopoly on selling food and drinks along the...
City News
38 Tories endorse Smitherman—but not John Tory, who says, “I’m not endorsing for mayor”
We’ve said before that former premier Mike Harris is politically toxic in this city, but we’ll eat our words if this latest...
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Rocco Rossi’s latest pro-car battle cry: expressway on-ramps installed in 24 hours
Rocco Rossi doesn't just want to send traffic underneath the city —he wants to get it moving more quickly above the city, as...
City News
Some geniuses have turned the mayoral election into a Pac-Man-like video game
City News
Tunnel vision jokes unavoidable as Rocco Rossi proposes an underground extension of the Allen Expressway
The Toronto mayoral race is shaping up to be a sprint between candidates proposing the biggest, most expensive projects that...
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Food & Drink
Showdown at the Boardwalk Café: Tuggs owner gets an earful from local candidate
There are many reasons readers might be familiar with Sandra Bussin , councillor for Beaches–East York. Some may remember the...
City News
Rob Ford-Old Spice parody ad equal parts terrifying, hilarious
A tweet from Torontoist sent us in the direction of this YouTube video poking fun at both Rob Ford and those endemic (read:...
City News
Attention, John Tory: mayoral hopefuls can no longer register to run for mayor
As of 2 p.m. today, Toronto knew for sure that one of the leading five candidates (sorry, everyone else) is going to be the mayor...
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City News
The Rob Ford echo: mayoral front-runners suddenly sound a lot like Rob Ford
With Rob Ford solidly in the lead of the mayoral race, the other four candidates are all trying to figure out how to claw down his...
City News
Rob Ford unveils transit plan: remove streetcars, get cyclists off roads, expand subway only in burbs
Well the last horse has finally crossed the finish line: the Rob Ford campaign has put out a transit policy, allowing us to...
City News
Mayoral hopefuls praise Toronto film industry, The Simpsons
This morning—that is, the morning before TIFF—the four males of Toronto's five leading mayoral hopefuls gathered at the lot...
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City News
Rossi, Thomson crash Pantalone’s Labour Day party
In terms of formal endorsements, there's really only one dyed-in-the-wool left wing candidate in the mayor's race, and that's Joe...
City News
Labour Day is over. We now return to our regularly scheduled mayoral campaign, already in progress
The same phrase has been delivered by every candidate in the mayoral race so far (especially those not in first place): “the...
City News
Rocco Rossi appeals to non-voters in well thought-out plan
The Rocco Rossi campaign is doing its level best to introduce new ideas to the mayoral race: after announcing his support for...
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Latest mayoral debate features duelling Roccos, melanin and group shouting at Rob Ford
Last night's mayoral debate at St. Lawrence Hall featured the first new face since Rob Ford entered the race: candidate Rocco...
City News
Total Recall: Rocco Rossi wants Torontonians to be able to sack their councillors by petition
We'll be the first to acknowledge that election campaigns are fun. There's shouting, polls, shouting, the occasional policy...
City News
Strategist extraordinaire Warren Kinsella grabs a bucket, starts bailing out the SS Rocco Rossi
As Toronto's mayoral campaign enters the home stretch, it's looking worse and worse for Rocco Rossi 's campaign. A Toronto Star...
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From the “hilarity ensues” files: suburban councillor insults her suburban voters in election year
Here's a lesson a councillor shouldn't need after their 22nd year in office: don't insult constituents when heading into the most...
City News
Rob Ford’s frenemies on council eager to emphasize the “fre” part
Mayoral front-runner Rob Ford doesn't have a lot of people he could call friends on council, or so the story goes. Just yesterday...
City News
Mammoliti will not be endorsing Sarah Thomson; Thomson seems OK with it
One of the great prerogatives of running for office and then quitting the race is that you get to shop your influence around and...
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City News
As Rob Ford is punished again, councillors contemplate the Mayor Ford era, plan coup
Another day, another report from the integrity commissioner that Rob Ford did something he shouldn't have. In this case, Ford...
City News
Battle of the columnists: Mallick, Blatchford and Goar take on Rob Ford
Last Friday, Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford wrote a piece calling Rob Ford “the gadfly Toronto needs,” and today...
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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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