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Hurricane Hazel McCallion: crazy like a fox?
The latest reporting on Hazel McCallion ’ s now painfully obvious conflict of interest in a Mississauga real estate deal makes...
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Can a 386-page report on Hazel McCallion’s misbehaviour stop the Hurricane? Probably not
Things aren’t looking great for the Hurricane. As every paper in the city is reporting, a judicial inquiry has found that...
City News
Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion’s endorsement is like steroids for politicians
Political kingmaker Hazel McCallion is being accused of unfairly influencing the Mississauga by-election in which one of her...
City News
Carolyn Parrish loses council by-election, reminding Mississauga politicians never to screw with Hurricane Hazel
Hazel McCallion ’s detractors have even more evidence that messing with the long-serving mayor of Mississauga is a political...
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Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
City News
Dalton McGuinty tries to sweet talk supreme ruler and lord of the suburbs, Hazel McCallion
Dalton McGuinty is reaching out to Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion for a bit of suburban support. McCallion hasn’t officially...
City News
Mississauga unveils its first downtown traffic roundabout, which the Toronto Sun finds weirdly exciting
Traffic lights are old news. Roundabouts are the new cool kids on the block (literally), and cities all over North America are...
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With Hazel McCallion’s last mayoral run behind us, Mississauga politics is starting to get interesting
Now that Mississauga is set to host an actual contested political election, all eyes will be on the city’s council for the...
City News
How running became the city’s collective obsession
Last year I turned 30, broke up with my long-term boyfriend and moved into a tiny apartment for one. The domestic vision I’d had...
City News
Recent fact-checking spree reveals that no, Etobicoke doesn’t have more libraries than Timmies, contra Doug Ford
We suspect that “fact-checking the Fords” will be a growth industry for city hall watchers, especially after Ed Keenan ’s...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I entitled to an email telling me that I didn’t get the job?
Dear Urban Diplomat, As part of a recent job application, I had to go through three interviews, submit a 1,000-word proposal and...
Shopping
A look at some of the city’s hottest rides—and some of the most enthused enthusiasts
When the warm weather hits, the car-obsessed and their vintage toys come out to play, top down, engines gurgling, exhaust pipes...
Food & Drink
Ed Ho of Globe and Earth tells us how he’s making My Place into his place
After My Place opened, closed and reopened in the space of a couple of years, we finally heard the last nail being hammered into...
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Bull’s Eye: Peter Sibbald captures the gritty subculture of southern Ontario rodeos in his superb all-access series, Roughstock
Peter Sibbald was raised on Westerns. So the photographer was understandably captivated when he came across some classic cowboy...
City News
True grit: “Hurricane” Hazel McCallion’s last hurrah after 33 years as the mayor of Mississauga
While Mississauga turned into a massive city of immigrants, Hazel McCallion remained the same stubborn, penny-pinching mayor. Now, in her final term, her legacy is threatened by allegations of misconduct and a gang of critics determined to take her down
City News
Michael Ignatieff visits Trinity-Spadina to fight the NDP for second place
Liberal leader and PM aspirant Michael Ignatieff visited downtown Toronto on the first Monday of the election campaign...
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Culture
New Global singing competition to feature Jann Arden and Vanilla Ice as judges
Global announced yesterday a new singing competition that is Glee meets American Idol , with a little bit of America’s Best...
Real Estate News
Mississauga freezes downtown development: opposing big-box retail is not just for Leslieville anymore
As Mississauga continues to deal with having few spaces left to develop, we’ve been fascinated to see how the politics of the...
City News
Meet five Bay Street escapees who left six-figure jobs to work for themselves
They left six-figure corporate jobs for the queasy uncertainty of self-employment. Tales of emptied bank accounts and the elusive...
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Conservatives loudly trumpet stimulus spending—just not in Toronto
Yesterday, Conservative MPs streamed out of Ottawa and across the country to tout the spending they’d done under the Canadian...
City News
Disillusionment, thy name is Ford: city gravy hunters find out governing is, like, hard and stuff
During the election campaign, Rob Ford repeatedly said that there was no question that, if elected, he would be able to find and...
City News
Is Mississauga going lefty cyclist bleeding-heart pinko?
Last week, the city was swooning over Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi ’s visit. Since his election, the jokes among lefties about...
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An elegant way to carry around a six-pack
Peering at us from across a sea of lighting and countertop displays at the Interior Design Show last weekend was this cute little...
City News
The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
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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
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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