Olivia Chow

Olivia Chow’s public mourning after Jack Layton’s death cast her in a new light: dignified, likeable and, well, mayoral. Toronto wants her to run, but does she want Toronto?

Ignore, for a moment, all the sideshow antics that have hijacked his mayoralty. Rob Ford has made some big changes at city hall...

—Councillor and confirmed loudmouth Doug Ford, unleashing his best right-wing campaign rhetoric in response to the growing calls...

Toronto is rich with street festivals, parades and protest marches, but a top contender for liveliest of the lot has to be the...

Anyone still holding out hope that Olivia Chow will challenge Rob Ford in the 2014 mayoral race (i.e. many, many people ) will be...

Olivia Chow is the latest addition to the growing “please run for mayor in 2014” wish list. Joe Cressy, a family friend and...

The Toronto Island Ferry Terminal is set to be renamed the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, which we think is a fitting tribute to the...

We saw it coming, but perhaps not quite this soon: the story of the late Jack Layton will be the subject of a biopic broadcast on...

Toronto MP Olivia Chow is reintroducing a private member’s bill calling for the installation of side guards on large trucks in...

We’re deeply saddened to learn that federal NDP leader Jack Layton lost his second battle with cancer this morning, according to...

What started off as a snoozer of a campaign has turned into the most exciting and unexpected race of recent memory. If you...

Ontario’s sunshine list has once again let everyone know which public servants made at least six figures in the previous...

Liberal leader and PM aspirant Michael Ignatieff visited downtown Toronto on the first Monday of the election campaign...

More and more, it’s looking like Canada is going to have an election on May 2 . There are signs are everywhere: rumours aplenty...

Last Friday was the 10th anniversary of the first legal gay marriages in the world, and the two married couples responsible for...

Weizhen Tang told his investors they deserved to be rich and only he could make them so. Even now, after he lost all their money and was charged with running one of the country’s largest Ponzi schemes, his disciples still want him to keep trading. They believe it’s the only way they’ll get their $30 million back

While the Globe was getting into some trouble Saturday morning with its Ford-is-fat story, the Toronto Sun and Toronto Star both...

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