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Where are they now? Catching up with Toronto’s former mayoral candidates
As Rocco Rossi reminded us with his surprise announcement last week, the candidates of the 2010 mayoral race, who so preoccupied...
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Rob Ford’s Transit City II: how will the mayor get it from campaign promise to reality?
When Mayor Rob Ford announced that “Transit City is over” and that he was replacing it with “Transportation City” (gutting...
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...
City News
Unity dinner raises about $1 million for mayoral cadidates Ford, Thomson and Rossi
Last night was the big night for all but one of the former mayoral candidates from last year’s election. Rob Ford, George...
City News
Pride Toronto’s severe case of TGIF: how the gay and lesbian festival ended up having one of its worst weeks ever
This has been a nasty week for Pride Toronto. The bad news started on Wednesday, when it came out that Pride had overspent its...
City News
Dog’s best friend: the story behind the Toronto Humane Society’s mutiny, raid and shutdown
Tim Trow had one sacred rule for the Toronto Humane Society: save every pet. But the shelter grew overcrowded and chaotic, the...
City News
Gord Perks says Ford budget “screwed” tenants, sadly does not prompt “yo momma” responses
In truth, we think too much ink is spilled pining for civility in politics. Some great parliamentary moments have been...
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The son also stumbles: Edgar Bronfman Jr. not going to jail after all (he’s just been slapped with $6.7-million fine)
Sometimes it’s tough out there for a scion of a Canadian dynasty. Not that Edgar Bronfman Jr. is in danger of missing his rent...
City News
Rob Ford wants to make Toronto “world class” by bringing NFL to the city
We woke this morning to the news that Rob Ford and his brother and colleague on council Doug Ford have their eyes on a new prize:...
City News
New poll shows Torontonians’ hate of LRTs has been greatly exaggerated
Since election day, the debate over transit in Toronto has been reduced to a logical fallacy: people voted for Rob Ford . Ford...
City News
Our Fare Lady: Q&A with Karen Stinz, the newly appointed TTC chair
Complaints about TTC customer service, possible strikes, delays—Stintz says she’s ready to take it all on You’re one of few...
City News
Gone to pot: the story behind Toronto’s $100-million marijuana economy
Vietnamese gangs recruit teams of immigrants, install elaborate hydroponic equipment in their basements, and train them to raise...
City News
Pan Am fun begins early as costs double and city council freaks out
Toronto was pretty excited about winning the competition to host the 2015 Pan American Games , and why not? It wasn’t the...
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Who’s zoomin’ who? Dubious details surrounding a Canadian auction of Bernie Madoff’s valuables
Jewellery, artwork and other valuables of former Wall Street financier and infamous Ponzi scheme perpetrator Bernie Madoff made...
City News
Toronto slugger Joey Votto officially rolling in it (“it”=$38 million)
Toronto-born Major Leaguer Joey Votto is going to get paid big time. The Cincinnati Reds all-star and reigning National League...
City News
Maple Leafs fined for offering a $600 cash incentive to players to beat San Jose
The National Hockey League has fined the Toronto Maple Leafs an undisclosed amount for violating article 26 of the current...
City News
Oshawa mayor wanted Toronto’s Transit City money to fund expansion of the 407
The city of Oshawa, fresh from electing a man to city council without knowing he couldn’t take the job, is now in an uproar over...
City News
Confidence-inspiring TTC budget found $24 million with haste and blue pen
The way that Rob Ford and Karen Stintz hastily announced and then de-announced the TTC fare hike left a lot of city hall observers...
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TTC fare hike dead in the water: city finds cash to freeze riders’ transit costs
Yesterday we said the optics of cutting taxes on motorists while raising the price of public transit are “so bad it’s hard to...
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This week in whining: holdout provinces say Ottawa’s securities regulator can’t have a logo
In the ongoing family feud between Ottawa and some recalcitrant provinces over whether to have a national securities regulator or...
City News
Buffalo, importers tickled with loonie’s parity
For the fourth time in a decade, the Canadian dollar is above parity, and dollar watchers are saying this time it might stick for...
City News
Conservatives’ love-hate relationship with immigrants continues with cuts to settlement funding
Over the past several years (and elections), the Conservative Party has been trying hard to wrest the votes of new Canadians from...
Culture
Toronto Sun and PMO renew their fury over SummerWorks’ terrorism-themed play
Surprise, surprise: there’s drama brewing in the Toronto theatre community. The commotion involves a stage festival, a...
City News
Five things we learned from Rob Ford’s year-end interview with the Globe
The mayor’s first big meeting with city council was a marathon affair in which he got everything he wanted . Rob Ford ’s plan...
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Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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