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Six things we learned from David Miller’s mass of exit interviews
Outgoing mayor David Miller seems to have been a busy bee yesterday, as all four of Toronto’s major dailies have exit interviews...
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Pandas are coming to Toronto—for $11 million
Giorgio Mammoliti is finally going to get his bears. For the past nine years, the city councillor and mayoral also-ran has been...
City News
The Sun fluffs Ford’s numbers
There’s been quite a bit made of the fact that, with his easy victory in a high-turnout election, Rob Ford has received more...
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...
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Ban the bag: London MP wants Canada to be more like Toronto
Toronto introduced its five-cent bag fee more than a year ago, and people are still grumbling about it (most recently, Mel Lastman...
City News
Mr. Popular: Why Rob Ford’s winning over Toronto
By any measure he’s a terrible candidate for mayor. But his obsession with cost-cutting and his contempt for City Hall have pushed him to the front of the pack. The unlikely allure of Rob Ford
City News
City hall now with fewer erection jokes: Howard Moscoe is retiring
Long-time city councillor Howard Moscoe is best known for his mouth: whether slagging Mel Lastman (something Moscoe started doing...
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Seven Long Years: How will David Miller be remembered?
As a kvetchy, largely ineffective do-gooder ultimately undone by the unionists who helped elect him Unless Joe Pantalone, the...
City News
Beauty queen puts foot in mouth, reminds us of Mel Lastman
There's an argument for having beauty pageant contestants warn young people about body image and eating disorders, but none seem...
City News
Howard Moscoe: a retrospective of antics
Last week, we saw some strange antics from city councillor Howard Moscoe . First, he invited drivers to support transit with those...
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A brief history of the most explosive f-bombs in Canadian politics
This week’s f-bomb, dropped by Senator Nancy Ruth, might have raised a few eyebrows, but public representatives using the f-word...
City News
The Lost Station
After stalling for years amid corruption charges, lawsuits and bureaucratic bungling, the overhaul of Union Station is finally...
City News
Smitherman’s new campaign boss wants to “unleash George”
Last Friday, after months of low-profile campaigning, George Smitherman' s manager, Jeff Bangs, left Smitherman's office for the...
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MPP accuses Torontonians of not knowing who Bambi is
If the whole Toronto-as-its-own-province thing sounded like a bad idea last month, its current champion (not Mel Lastman , that's...
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Toronto’s water main nightmare: how we got into this mess and what it will cost to get us out
This winter in Toronto, as many as 70 water mains ruptured every week, causing blackouts, flooding basements to the rafters and...
City News
Channelling Mel Lastman, Tory MPP wants Toronto to separate from Ontario
Bill Murdoch, Tory MPP for Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, is pretty confident that he knows what Ontario is and what it isn't. And...
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An ode to Councillor Michael Walker for his years of comic relief
Mel Lastman once called him a “good excuse for birth control,” but to Michael Walker, long-time city councillor and...
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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
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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