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Doug Ford closes in on John Tory in a new Forum poll
Yesterday's Mainstreet Technologies poll showed John Tory maintaining his commanding lead over both Doug Ford and Olivia Chow...
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A new poll shows John Tory solidifying his lead
The latest poll from political consultancy Mainstreet Technologies tells much the same story as every poll since Labour Day. The...
City News
Olivia Chow: “The ‘bottom line’ is where good government starts, not where it ends”
— Olivia Chow , speechifying during the official release of her full mayoral platform earlier today. The increasingly...
City News
Olivia Chow absorbs a ridiculous amount of Facebook hate
—The number of "racist, sexist and other offensive posts" removed from the Olivia Chow campaign's Facebook page since March...
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A new poll shows Olivia Chow falling way behind
This latest mayoral poll from Forum Research , conducted on September 29 and released earlier this morning, contains no...
City News
Doug Ford gains on John Tory in the latest mayoral poll
A poll released earlier today by political consultancy Mainstreet Technologies doesn't give John Tory quite as much breathing room...
City News
Another poll shows John Tory way ahead of Chow and Ford
A new poll, conducted this week by Ipsos Reid on behalf of Global News , shows John Tory maintaining and perhaps even widening his...
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City News
Could Olivia Chow really use the land transfer tax to make city taxes more progressive?
THE IDEA Back in 2010, Rob Ford promised to scrap Toronto’s land transfer tax (LTT) and won the mayoralty. Four years later, the...
City News
Yet another poll puts John Tory in the lead in the mayoral race
Like Sunday's Mainstreet Technologies poll, this new poll of 1,000 Torontonians by Nanos Research, conducted on behalf of the...
City News
John Tory maintains his lead in the latest mayoral poll
With the municipal election now just a month away, John Tory remains comfortably ahead of both Olivia Chow and Doug Ford in the...
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Yet another poll puts John Tory way out in front
A new poll conducted by Ipsos Reid for Global News tells a much different story than the ones done late last week, in the...
City News
Doug Ford enters the mayoral race in second place, maybe
There are a few things about this latest Forum Research poll , released on Friday, that are a little suspect. For one, another...
City News
David Soknacki drops out of the mayoral race as his poll numbers continue to flatline
Tuesday night was a sad one for a certain kind of voter as policy-nerd-favourite David Soknacki , citing weak (but growing)...
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Culture
Jon Stewart struts the red carpet for
Rosewater,
calls Canadians “upsettingly” nice
The Daily Show host and first-time filmmaker Jon Stewart seems to really like Canada. Maybe it’s because Half Baked , in which...
City News
John Tory takes the lead in the mayoral race, according to a new poll
With Olivia Chow ’s numbers softening, Toronto's mayoral race has been in need of a new frontrunner. Now, courtesy of a new...
City News
Rob Ford is now in second in the mayoral race, according to the latest Forum poll
A new poll from Forum Research is the latest of several to show Olivia Chow ’s campaign crumbling underneath her. In this latest...
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Would Olivia Chow’s affordable-housing plan actually work as advertised?
THE IDEA Toronto is mired in an affordable-housing crisis. As of June, almost 170,000 people were waiting for a place in some form...
City News
A somewhat exciting recap of the least exciting debate of the mayoral campaign so far
Comedian and writer Jeremy Woodcock doesn't normally cover municipal politics. Even so, we sent him to Thursday night's "Heritage...
City News
If they had a million dollars
In an effort to get something better than the usual promises and platitudes from the current crop of mayoral candidates, we...
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The High Cost of Cheap Labour
Union support can be the key to a mayoral victory. Members will put up signs, go door-to-door and get out the vote on election...
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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...
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...
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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...
City News
How John Tory unmade his promise to “start digging” the Scarborough subway next year
On May 27, the John Tory campaign summoned the media to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. After weeks of promising to build a...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
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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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living