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Hydro utilities raising rates to cover cost of their legal misadventure
At this rate, it will be a neck-and-neck race as to which industry gets worse reviews: Ontario’s electricity providers or...
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Food & Drink
Blame it on the alcohol: Ontario finds ways to make beer more fun
Who doesn’t love beer? Nobody, that’s who. This is, after all, a province where lowering the price of beer has the potential...
City News
Reaction roundup: Ford’s private subway financing faces its first critics
Mayor Rob Ford ’s plan to finance an extension of the Sheppard subway line with private money and higher taxes along the...
Food & Drink
Owners of Queen West’s Delight Chocolate open new cheese store in the basement
Building on their success with chocolate and cheese lovers in the Junction, Jeff Brown and Jennifer Rashleigh , co-owners of...
City News
TMX-LSE merger gets cold shoulders from Ontario, Quebec and Ottawa
The heat of excitement that greeted the merger of the Toronto and London stock exchanges has met with a stiff, cold winter...
Food & Drink
Just Desserts: sophisticated sweet wines worth the splurge
Sweet wines generally get a bad rap. Even avid wine lovers tend to dismiss them as overly expensive, cloying or lacking in...
City News
Kneel before Scarborough, Ontario: province’s biggest renewable energy resource will go untapped thanks to Bluffs voters
There’s nothing quite like watching a government run against itself: after years of touting itself as the greenest government in...
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City News
Here’s something to make pinko cyclists cringe: “Doug Ford for Premier”
Rumours are abounding that the mayor’s brother, Doug Ford , is being courted by the provincial Tories under Tim Hudak —and...
City News
Where are they now? Catching up with Toronto’s former mayoral candidates
As Rocco Rossi reminded us with his surprise announcement last week, the candidates of the 2010 mayoral race, who so preoccupied...
Real Estate News
New details about CN Tower “behemoth” aquarium emerge
As we reported last March, Toronto has been in talks with Ripley Entertainment to bring an aquarium of epic proportions to the CN...
City News
Groundhog Day forecast: almost all pivotal groundhogs agree that it will be a short winter
The groundhogs have weighed in, and it’s nearly unanimous: Punxsutawney Phil , Wiarton Willie and Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie...
City News
The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
City News
Provincial election ramp up: Rocco Rossi joins Conservatives in name and not just in fact
Rumours started swirling last week that former mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi was going to join the Progressive Conservative Party...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Winterlicious, Barrymore and six other can’t-miss events
1. CONNECTING: TORONTO IS AN AWFUL CITY As part of the ROM’s regular Connecting series, Toronto Star urban affairs columnist...
City News
Should Queen’s Park run the TTC instead of city hall? Apparently, it’s up for discussion
Reporters who get obsessed with obscure matters are our favourites because it’s impossible to tell where that kind of tenacious...
Real Estate News
Vista-marring condos to go up behind Queen’s Park
The pink palace that houses the Ontario Legislature is about to lose a bit of its charm. Yesterday, Dalton McGuinty said the...
Food & Drink
All that sparkles: nine outstanding bottles of bubbly without the elitism
French champagne is still the standard-bearer for the world’s sparkling wines. But New World winemakers are tinkering with its...
City News
Diesel vs. electric trains: study vindicates Clean Train Coalition on debate over rail line to Pearson (but the province is buying diesel cars anyway)
Finally, a transit story that has absolutely nothing to do with Transit City. This one’s about a basic disagreement over...
City News
Gone to pot: the story behind Toronto’s $100-million marijuana economy
Vietnamese gangs recruit teams of immigrants, install elaborate hydroponic equipment in their basements, and train them to raise...
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City News
Conservatives release video attack ads that are more like skipping records
Inevitably, when a band has had a few good years of success, it’s tempting to re-package some of its greatest hits, throw in a...
City News
Who’s afraid of the big, bad provinces? Stephen Harper, that’s who
Timidity isn’t something Stephen Harper and his government stand accused of very often. But some of the news this week did bring...
City News
Oshawa mayor wanted Toronto’s Transit City money to fund expansion of the 407
The city of Oshawa, fresh from electing a man to city council without knowing he couldn’t take the job, is now in an uproar over...
City News
Dwight Duncan: the HST is saving Ontario’s economy—no, really!
The Harmonized Sales Tax may be one of the Liberal government’s biggest weaknesses in the coming election, so they’ve opted to...
City News
“Complacency” to blame for Toronto’s overwhelming number of flu cases
Toronto’s in the middle of a walloping flu season. After last year’s swine flu pandemic that wasn’t, the city seems to have...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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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This classic Hamptons-style home by Chatsworth Fine Homes offers an exciting opportunity to customize a new dream home and build instant value - without the long wait of new construction
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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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