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“Some full-timers are using food banks”: A Metro employee breaks down why GTA grocery workers are prepared to strike
After 25 years as a produce clerk, Tammy Laporte’s wages have fallen woefully behind the rate of inflation. Now, she can’t afford to shop at her own workplace
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City News
Two free dailies sell their covers to two different political parties on the same day
Take a look at those two covers. (The one on the left is 24 Hours , in case it wasn't obvious.) At first glance—and these...
Food & Drink
UPDATE: Where to get free grocery-store gift cards for those who lost food during the ice storm
Here’s some news you can use if you were without power for several days and the inside of your fridge looks like an abandoned...
City News
Gawker Gotchas: the snarky site’s top six takedowns of Toronto journalists
Do not ask Rosie DiManno about her weekend. On Saturday, the Internet took aim at one of the Toronto Star columnist’s recent...
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City News
How that disposable pamphlet of infotainment that’s an inescapable part of our daily commute—a.k.a. Metro—is now the most-read paper in the country
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and Metro ’s Church Street newsroom is quiet and empty. By now, reporters at every other paper...
City News
Five things we learned from the Post’s “Fire and EMS at war” piece
One of the proposals that’s been put forward to save the city money in these lean fiscal times is combining Toronto’s Fire...
City News
Transit City a go? Maybe, but province has commitment issues
After all the fighting between Toronto and the provincial government over when, and even whether, David Miller' s Transit City...
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Metro newspaper threatens to take away sudoku
One of the city’s daily freebie papers has two more days to negotiate a new contract with its 70-person staff, or else employees...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s new street meat, Parkdale’s food co-op start-up, the popification of wine
• Toronto’s ethnic street food program officially launched yesterday, with the $32,000 carts dishing out portable food across...
Food & Drink
Metro makes money, sustainable sushi and Gordon Ramsay’s fiscal nightmare
• British pop star Lily Allen is fined $2,000 for starting an ice cream fight in her dressing room after performing at the...
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Food & Drink
Obama Café’s competition, a trip to Carrot City, trimming the restaurant bill
• Talk of gratuities is in the air. Reminding us of the supposed origin of the acronym “TIPS” (the grammatically dubious...
Food & Drink
Mark McEwan predicts that Torontonians will “get” his North York version of Dean & Deluca
We’ve been hearing about McEwan—Mark McEwan’s proposed gourmet grocery store—for what seems like eons now. News about it...
Food & Drink
Can I really get out of a parking ticket by applying for a court date?
With our city short on courtrooms and judges, $30 parking tickets aren’t exactly a priority, so, yes, fighting a ticket will...
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It seems as if the northeast corner of Yonge and Dundas has been under construction forever
It seems as if the northeast corner of Yonge and Dundas has been under construction forever. What’s the deal?—Jennifer...
Food & Drink
I recently noticed a paramedic driving a tractor tricked out like an ambulance
I recently noticed a paramedic driving a tractor tricked out like an ambulance. I know budgets are tight—but surely not that...
Food & Drink
An alarming number of billboards and radio ads feature Leeza Gibbons gushing about the Backstreet Boys
An alarming number of billboards and radio ads feature Leeza Gibbons gushing about the Backstreet Boys. What is she doing...
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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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