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The New York Times finally reviews Shang
Add one more to the stack of tepid reviews of Susur Lee's Lower East Side fusion restaurant. In today's New York Times, critic...
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Mr. Sub drug bust, Starbucks downsizes, Pizza Pizza goes west
• Carb-loading may not be the only indulgence attracting Mr. Sub customers after dark. Police uncovered a marijuana stash worth...
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So Long. Farewell. Auf wiedersehen. Goodbye.
This is my last post for Spectator, as I am moving onward and upward, or backward and downward, depending on your point of...
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Magazine maven Bonnie Fuller poised to market her toughest brand yet: Herself
The gap between Canada Day and the star-spangled Fourth is a good time to reflect on the differences, similarities and absurdities...
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Received wisdom not yet in place for the Internet
Lately, I spent some time talking to a guy whose job it is to advise another guy (one with more money) exactly what the future...
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Pot calls kettle black in ongoing feud between print and Web journalists
The July-August issue of The Atlantic includes a piece by lead features scribbler Mark Bowden ( Black Hawk Down ) on the recent...
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How Mark Steyn got Canada on the cover of the New York Times
Whenever our home and native land gets a mention in the mighty New York Times , we feel that concomitant frisson of...
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Margaret Wente “reports” on the misery of latte lovers
Writing a regular column for a major newspaper is unbelievably hard work. And far be it from me to gainsay the efforts of someone...
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The newsworthiest breast in Canada
At this time last week, l’affaire Bernier was taking wing and sending a Canadian news story flying around the world: “Over the...
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Might Thomson Reuters try to buy The New York Times?
As noted yesterday by my august colleague Philip Preville, the Globe and Mail has, in its infinite wisdom, eliminated one of the...
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Media commentary can still surprise
Media commentary—whether it’s Gawker, Michael Wolf, Noam Chomsky or little old indispensable me—has a tendency toward (how...
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Yanks trump Canucks on bloggish hockey coverage
OK, this isn’t exactly earth-shattering news, but if you care at all about hockey in the frozen north, it’s a bit of a head...
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Signs of the times
For some years now, on a wall beside the back entrance to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (what used to be the emergency...
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New York’s newspaper war shifts its battleground from Manhattan to Myanmar
In keeping a weather eye on the ongoing newspaper war over New York, today’s front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New...
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Requiem for a newspaper: The Wall Street Journal falls into the Murdoch trap
Flipping the Rolodex of descriptors this morning, I pause at P for “plus ça change” and W for “waddya think was going to...
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Newspaper war update: The New York Times cannot be bought
Not surprisingly, Arthur Sulzberger is already up on his hind legs denying that the New York Times is for sale. Mike Bloomberg...
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Times 2, Journal 1: Murdoch takes a page from Conrad Black’s “The Art of Newspaper War”
Newsweek ’s latest has a mammoth take out on New York’s newspaper war. Titled “Murdoch, Ink,” the dek on the article...
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Is Martin Newland’s freshly launched paper The Guardian or Pravda? They report, you decide
Martin Newland, Ken Whyte’s former deputy honcho at the National Post and head honcho at The Daily Telegraph during the reign of...
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Hillary Clinton: one part Susan B. Anthony, one part Carly Simon and one part Joe McCarthy
In the aftermath of what was, by just about anybody’s estimation, a rout of Barack Obama in Wednesday night’s primary...
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Dispatches from the surreal calamity of last night’s Democratic leadership debate
Last night, in a massive Philadelphia museum devoted to the American Constitution, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hammered away...
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The Rezko affair resurfaces after testimony about Obama and Auchi
You may remember that, five weeks ago, I wondered out loud why one of Rupert Murdoch’s lead investigative reporters, The Times...
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Wall Street Journal’s parody paranoia proves that truth is stranger (and funnier) than fiction
Here’s a reason to get up this morning. A who’s who of New York satire—including Richard Belzer, Andy Borowitz, Tony...
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NYC newspaper war now playing out in the Post, Observer and Vanity Fair
Over at the Department of Double Standards we find Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff writing one of those...
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Can Rupert Murdoch steal the thunder of Microhoo?
Whatever you might imagine Conrad Black is up to today—washing floors, dishes or laundry, mowing a lawn or teaching a fellow...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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