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Watch Jus Reign and 6ix Dad Norm Kelly drive around Toronto
What car becomes a 6ix Dad most? When we asked everyone's internet best friend Jus Reign to pick Norm Kelly up and take him to...
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City hall insiders tell their favourite Rob Ford anecdotes
"He was a different guy than this taciturn meanie that some people made him out to be"
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How Norm Kelly became the city’s weirdest hip-hop hero
The 74-year-old city councillor has morphed into a street-savvy superstar who spouts rap lyrics on Twitter, pals around with Drake and inspires worship from teens around the world
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The most influential hashtaggers of 2015
They used the power of social media to rally Torontonians to their causes
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Norm Kelly: deputy mayor of the internet
Before being named deputy mayor over the summer, Scarborough city councillor Norm Kelly was best known for saying something dumb...
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In honour of Drake’s pants, the Toronto Raptors are giving out free lint rollers tonight
After Drake 's famous pants de-linting episode during game two of the Toronto Raptors ’ playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets...
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Toronto city hall is getting a new babysitter
After more than three years of internal squabbling, scandals, embarrassments and late-night TV appearances, it's understandable...
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Reaction Roundup: the 18 essential quotes about Rob Ford’s L.A. trip and Jimmy Kimmel appearance
"I don’t think I’ve had this many questions since the series finale of Lost. ” — Jimmy Kimmel , host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!...
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Updated: early-morning boozing approved for Olympic men’s hockey finals
—City councillor Mike Layton on his forthcoming motion to allow Toronto bars and restaurants to serve top-of-the-morning booze...
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Rob Ford demands city hall’s Pride flag be removed, then discovers he doesn’t have the authority to remove it
Things were quiet on the Rob Ford front for a little while after his crack confession, but now it seems as though the mayor is...
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Reaction Roundup: the nine top responses to Rob Ford’s refusal to attend Toronto’s World Pride event
“I’m not going to go to the Pride parade. I’ve never gone to a Pride parade. So I’m not going to change the way I am.”...
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Reaction Round-up: 16 essential quotes about Rob Ford’s rant in Jamaican patois
Tuesday's video of Rob Ford , inebriated at Steak Queen and rambling incoherently in Jamaican patois, has caused renewed outrage...
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Deputy mayor Norm Kelly puts Rob Ford’s low-tax rhetoric to shame
Rob Ford has spent the past two months complaining loudly about the city's proposed 2.5 per cent hike to property taxes in...
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Toronto’s cold-weather cred on the line as Norm Kelly considers calling in the army
Almost 15 years ago, then-mayor Mel Lastman decided to call in the army for help coping with some unusually heavy snowfall, and...
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Rob Ford wants money from Queen’s Park now that the ice storm crisis is essentially over
Last week's ice storm put Rob Ford in an awkward position. He lost most of his emergency-management powers in November, when city...
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The definitive guide to the supporters and opponents of a Toronto casino
After more than a year of debate, Toronto’s still-hypothetical casino will soon face a crucial test. A long-awaited city staff...
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The Toronto Star’s Royson James wants councillors to just show up and vote already
It’s been a bad week for councillor attendance: meetings for both the parks and environment committee and the economic...
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Norm Kelly having trouble grappling with Occupy Toronto
With the protesters camped out in St. James Park bracing for winter—and doing a pretty good job of it— Rob Ford said earlier...
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More core service reviews, more of the same message: the gravy is missing
Yet another core service review has come out today—this time relating to parks and the environment and leaked early to the...
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Jewel-like bugs could destroy Toronto’s ash trees this summer
Toronto may have narrowly escaped snowpocalypse this winter, but the city is now facing a summer threat: an invasion of the...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
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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?
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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
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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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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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“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
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative