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municipal election 2014
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The latest Forum Research poll has Olivia Chow trailing Rob Ford
The poll , conducted on August 6, shows results markedly different from those of the last one by the same firm, which put the...
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David Soknacki does the impossible, by turning the police budget into an election issue
D-Soks is still behind in the polls, but he has just made a valuable—maybe even a very valuable—contribution to the 2014...
City News
A new poll puts Rob Ford decisively in third place
Here's the thing about polling before an election: if you ask two pollsters to predict the outcome, you're going to get two...
City News
Fringe mayoral candidate Matthew Crack: “I can’t say it isn’t”
—Long-shot mayoral candidate Matthew Crack, when asked by the Star whether his last name was a factor in his decision to run in...
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Rob Ford’s new campaign video seemingly breaks campaign rules
A new Rob Ford campaign video , released on the mayor's website at some point in the past 24 hours, is earning media notice for a...
City News
Q&A: Andray Domise, the guy who could actually beat the Fords on their home turf
The Ford family has held north Etobicoke’s city council seat since 2000, when Rob Ford won his first election. This year's...
City News
Joe Cressy, who lost to Adam Vaughan in a federal by-election, is now going after Vaughan’s former city council seat
The 30-year-old, an NDP operative and activist, failed in his bid to take over for Olivia Chow as Trinity-Spadina's MP when...
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Rob and Doug Ford get into a shouting match with debate organizers
A mayoral debate hosted by the Parkview Hills Community Association got off to a depressing start on Monday night when, before...
City News
Michael Ford, the mayor’s nephew, is officially running for city council
After months of rumours, Michael Ford , the son of Rob Ford ’s sister Kathy, has officially added his name to the ballot in Ward...
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Newstalk 1010’s Jerry Agar: “Why shouldn’t they have breakfast at home?"
—Newstalk 1010 host Jerry Agar , channelling Marie Antoinette during an interview (skip to 35:00) this morning with mayoral...
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Rob Ford’s popularity has rebounded, according to a new poll
A poll conducted on June 23 by Forum Research finds that Rob Ford will still be a major contender in the mayoral election when he...
City News
Olivia Chow’s radio ad imagines the Ford administration as a monster-truck rally
At the risk of mixing her metaphors (she has previously referred to Rob Ford ’s city hall as "the circus tent"), Olivia Chow has...
City News
The Sarah Thomson mayoral campaign songbook: a guide
Mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson , whose dreadlocks grow more impressive by the day, released a third music video late last...
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David Soknacki makes enemies of downtown store owners by threatening to take their parking away
Anyone who wants to see see a small-business owner panic should try this fun experiment: walk into a shop on any major downtown...
City News
Olivia Chow’s latest campaign promise? Shorter campaigns
Another sure sign that this year's mayoral election is an unusual one: the campaign itself has just become a campaign...
City News
Rob Ford’s approval rating hits an all-time low
— Rob Ford ’s current approval rating, according to a poll conducted on Friday by Forum Research . This is a new low for the...
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18-year-old mayoral candidate Morgan Baskin fends off “one to five” creepy advances per day
Today in sad-but-not-surprising news: Morgan Baskin , the 18-year-old high-school student who is running in the 2014 mayoral...
City News
John Tory promises “surface subways” for Toronto
In a bit of rhetorical wizardry that will puzzle city hall scholars for months, John Tory just told reporters that, if elected...
City News
Rob Ford’s approval rating appears to be cratering
Three weeks in rehab seem to have done what a year of crack-scandal fallout couldn't: Rob Ford ’s approval rating has finally...
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Karen Stintz thinks changing transit plans is a terrible idea, except when it’s her idea
Karen Stintz has spent the past three years upending Toronto's long-term public-transit planning, for good or ill. As TTC...
City News
Toronto Election 2014 Power Ratings: the week rehab was amazing
Rob Ford is down and out (well, not entirely out), and the other candidates are taking the opportunity to make their own...
City News
Toronto Election 2014 Power Ratings: the week Rob Ford self-destructed
This week came to a screeching, crack-smoking, ethnic-slur-spewing halt on Wednesday, when the public learned that Rob Ford has...
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Olivia Chow promises “up to a billion dollars” for transit in Toronto
At the Toronto Region Board of Trade this afternoon, Olivia Chow unveiled her transit-investment strategy in front of a packed...
City News
Olivia Chow gets the Iron Sheik’s endorsement, then apologizes
Something about the circus-like atmosphere fostered by Rob Ford has blurred the line between Toronto politics and professional...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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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