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Adam Vaughan vs. Rob Ford’s ultra-cliquey executive committee
For his latest attempt to mess with Rob Ford, inveterate city council pot-stirrer Adam Vaughan tried this week to join the...
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Rob Ford’s friend count is dropping fast
Although Rob Ford is calling it the “best budget in Toronto’s history,” the 2013 budget process has certainly diminished the...
City News
Power Moves: six city councillors making early political plays following Rob Ford’s ouster from office
Since a judge took the unexpected, unprecedented step of kicking Rob Ford out of the mayor’s office on Monday, city hall...
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Rob Ford’s allies fight Adam Vaughan in an epic battle of words, tweets and blurry photos
Rob Ford supporters clashed with Councillor (and likely 2014 mayoral candidate ) Adam Vaughan yesterday, in an...
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Reaction Roundup: The OneCity proposal sparked lots of chatter and crowned an alternate mayor
With cloak-and-dagger plans, alliance building and power shifts, Toronto politics has veered into epic poem territory of...
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Rob Ford returns to his old nemesis: the land transfer tax
Sounding like he was re-using his 2010 election campaign notes, Rob Ford told the Toronto Real Estate Board on Friday that he’d...
City News
Toronto has a massive operating surplus. Again.
In what feels like incredibly familiar news, the city’s budget committee says the city has a $70.3-million operating surplus for...
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Budget committee newbie James Pasternak promises a “floor fight” over cuts
Since learning the city’s 2011 surplus (or “savings”) was $138 more than forecast, city councillors...
City News
Toronto has $138 million more than it thought (but they’re “savings,” not a surplus)
Turns out Toronto’s 2011 budget surplus, estimated at $154 million in January, was actually $138 million more than...
City News
Rob Ford’s allies go rogue just ahead of the Sheppard transit vote
As city council heads into the big Sheppard transit vote, we bring you some final evidence that Rob Ford has lost control of his...
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Mike Del Grande jokes about millions of dollars just for a few LOLs
Last week, silver-tongued Mike Del Grande asked the executive committee to redirect $16.4 million in funding from Regent Park to...
City News
Mike Del Grande isn’t resigning—he just wants to give up his job and be replaced soon
The budget chief’s hands may be “shot” from all the typing he does every day, but apparently he isn’t resigning (or at...
City News
Sue-Ann Levy insists the budget is a victory for Rob Ford—so what’s she so upset about?
Although the budget vote didn’t go his way, Rob Ford can take solace knowing he still has the support of his friends—political...
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Mike Del Grande says libraries will suffer a 10 per cent budget cut whether they like it or not
Though the Toronto library board may have rebuffed the mayor’s demand for a 10 per cent spending cut, budget chief Mike Del...
City News
Apparently, Mike Del Grande is searching under the couch cushions for money to save school nutrition programs
Have no fear, hungry children: Mike Del Grande is working to save your food programs (and so too is Doug Ford) . The Globe and...
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City politicians could raise taxes, and citizens might actually be okay with it (no, really)
That’s right, this week deputants at city hall asked politicians to make them pay more taxes. It turns out some Torontonians...
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Quoted: Mike Del Grande on Playboy, public libraries and (imaginary) men in trench coats
That’s silver-tongued budget chief Mike Del Grande on the Toronto Public Library’s Playboy magazines and books (and those...
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Quoted: Mike Del Grande on the vulnerable, and how they’re getting in the way of a balanced budget
That’s budget chief Mike Del Grande lamenting that the impact of service fees on the poor might prevent council from making the...
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Apparently, city hall is looking to recoup lost revenue on the backs of Toronto children
Toronto’s budget chief Mike Del Grande thinks the city should consider charging two bucks for a swim at an outdoor pool or a...
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Mike Del Grande expresses wariness about movies, non-English literature
Budget Chief Mike Del Grande isn’t so sure that city libraries should be spending money on frills such as Hollywood...
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Rob Ford’s finance figures continue to look rather arbitrary—still, he won’t give up his apocalyptic budget rhetoric
The National Post referred to the most significant cuts in the proposed 2012 budget as “highlights,” which we find slightly...
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Mike Del Grande loves cavities (and possibly conspiracy theories)
Mike Del Grande presented a motion—he called it a “grenade”—in favour of eliminating fluoride from the city’s drinking...
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Rob Ford and co. decide to defer selling a stake in Toronto Hydro, leaving big bucks on the table (at least until January)
Mayor Rob Ford and his friends on the executive committee voted yesterday to delay the decision to sell 10 per cent of Toronto...
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Rob Ford’s demand for 10 per cent budget cuts in all city departments is looking more and more arbitrary
With all the talk of Rob Ford’ s business cards, it’s easy to forget that city hall is in the midst of a nasty budget...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling