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Pearson responds to long lines on Wednesday night with radical move of “adding staff”
Wednesday night, the lineups at Pearson International Airport were apparently a bit nutty, even by the standards of Canada’s...
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Sneak preview of Moshe Safdie’s forthcoming Parkside condo tower on the waterfront
Moshe Safdie is one of Canada’s greatest architects. At 24, he designed the iconic Habitat ’67 in Montreal as his master’s...
City News
Canada’s big-city mayors have a wish list for Ottawa—except for Rob Ford
With the budget coming next week from the federal government, one big question is whether, or what, Ottawa will has in store for...
City News
Election Watch 2011: How do the federal parties’ ads stack up so far?
Canada is about 99.9 per cent likely to be heading into an election after next week , so all national parties have started to...
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The art of self-defence: the unbearable anxiety of being Ken Finkleman
His shows are nasty, sophisticated, hilarious—and often dismissed as derivative. The unbearable anxiety of being Ken Finkleman...
City News
What would budget proposals look like if Ottawa made sense? Two think tanks’ adventures in coherence
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) today released the Alternative Budget, its annual exercise in...
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...
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The housekeepers revolt: behind the labour dispute at the Royal York Hotel
In an era of decline for organized labour, an aggressive hospitality workers’ union is determined to turn menial labour into...
City News
City denies Afrofest an event permit. Is this a sign of things for the first Summer of Ford, or no big deal?
For more than 20 years, Toronto has hosted Afrofest at Queen’s Park. This year, however, just as the festival was booking its...
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How does Ford Nation stack up to other nations—Leafs, Colbert and Bieber?
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Toronto Hydro’s friendly reminder with your latest bill: how not to get electrocuted
Last week, two dogs were electrocuted on a sidewalk at the corner of Queen East and Parliament streets. A police officer who tried...
City News
Awkwardness ensues: Councillor Berardinetti chooses Rob Ford over her Liberal hubby
Politics make for strange bedfellows, as they say. Things get even stranger when family’s involved. For example, the Ontario and...
City News
St. Joseph Media acquires Torontoist
St. Joseph Media, Canada's largest privately owned consumer magazine publisher, is proud to announce today the addition of...
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Mixed news for activists in report that says passengers will save four minutes with Island airport tunnel
We admit it; we can’t get enough news about the possible pedestrian tunnel to Billy Bishop Airport on the Island. We love the...
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Hate winter? The people who take care of Toronto’s 5,000 km of pipes agree
Here’s a surprisingly interesting story from the National Post about plumbing —no, seriously! Basically, the winter of...
City News
Honour among thieves: the only way to get the best selection of television shows and movies is to steal them
My wife and I have cut the cord. Instead of a cable TV subscription, we have a laptop, which is connected to our flat screen LCD...
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What are the chances that Toronto’s newspapers will go all digital?
News came out on Friday that the Montreal daily La Presse has a plan to embrace the Internet era with gusto: according to reports...
City News
MLSE may or may not be for sale. Rogers may or may not want to buy them
Confusion reigns supreme in the brouhaha that recently erupted over news that the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) is putting...
City News
407 extension approved with a blank cheque, in latest example of Liberal seat-protection
As part of its recent spending restraint, the Liberal government of Ontario, led by Dalton McGuinty , truncated its plans to...
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Social media for the media social club: the slightly bizarre, happy story of #goldsbiephone
Anyone who’s paid attention to Toronto politics on Twitter for more than five minutes knows Jonathan Goldsbie . He’s a...
City News
Bay Street advises Leafs coach: stop berating your players in public
Berating your employees in public isn’t an effective management strategy. Who’da thunk it? Well, local corporate management...
City News
Council votes to fire TCHC board, but not before hours of hilarity, weirdness, jazz hands and unwitting racism
The headline news out of city council last night was that, as expected, Mayor Rob Ford and his allies voted 25–18 to dismiss the...
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Alberta court shoots down national securities regulator, all eyes still on Ottawa
The Harper government’s effort to give Bay Street a single national regulator had a minor setback yesterday, as an Alberta court...
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Louis Vuitton and Burberry sue Canadian counterfeiters for fakes
Take a stroll down Spadina Avenue, peeking into Chinatown’s many nondescript knock-off handbag emporiums. But don’t look too...
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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
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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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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
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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