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Dalton McGuinty tries a new election tactic: run against Ottawa, remind everyone of the federal Liberal shellacking
We’re not quite sure yet if this is destined for the Election Strategy Hall of Fame (headquarters to be decided): Dalton...
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City News
NAFTA challenges, energy board rulings and the sell-off of AECL: is Ontario’s energy plan unravelling?
One of George Smitherman ’s crowning achievements in provincial politics was the establishment of the Green Energy Act, a...
City News
Jack Layton accomplished the impossible (with a little help from the anti-Iggy movement)—now what?
I should start by telling you that you’re my MP. That makes you my boss. Great—so you have to answer all of my...
City News
Air Canada and Canada Post on strike, locked out and about to get the TTC treatment
When the Interwebs received word that Canada Post workers were ready to start rotating strikes, the jokes were both predictable...
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Real Estate News
Ontario continues not to care about how Toronto looks
One of the sleepiest of sleepy controversies in this city surrounds (almost literally) the legislature at Queen’s Park . The...
City News
Ottawa drops its “new” budget with few changes from March—only more deficit anxiety
The federal election may have changed Parliament’s political makeup, but it seems to have changed relatively little in the minds...
City News
The hilarious hijinks of the hash brown hoax hack
Canadians can rest easy this morning knowing that the political party currently governing their country has the same awesome level...
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City News
New York takes cues from T.O. by using the Interwebs to retrieve stolen stuff
Ever since a Toronto woman arranged a sting to get her bike back in the summer of 2009—a feel-good story that made it all the...
City News
City’s deal with the police union could blow a(nother) huge hole in the budget
The Toronto police force’s already bloated budget just ballooned a little bigger. Word is that Toronto Police Service Board and...
City News
Remember that high-speed train from Windsor to Montreal? Here’s where the federal leaders stand on it
Finally, transit infrastructure has made it into the federal election news cycle. NDP leader Jack Layton was in Quebec...
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City News
Ford’s Transit Plan is finally out, and McGuinty wins the “Getting Ford to Compromise” prize
Looks like Mayor Rob Ford has picked up on the way a city is supposed to work: behind schedule, all the time. All it took was a...
City News
Reaction Roundup: before the writs drop, what’s the country thinking about an election?
Canada is all but certainly on the way to an election— the opposition parties have rejected the Conservative budget, and the...
City News
An outbreak of coyness grips Ottawa as Conservatives woo NDP over budget
All poli-nerds will be watching Ottawa today at 4 p.m. as the federal government unveils its 2011 budget—and stakes its...
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City News
Could a Tea Party–esque movement be good for Toronto?
With federal and provincial elections looming, there’s a good chance that Torontonians will have conservative leaders all the...
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
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...
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City News
How does Ford Nation stack up to other nations—Leafs, Colbert and Bieber?
City News
TMX-LSE merger needs a facelift already
Only weeks old, the proposed merger of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange has been badly chapped by the...
City News
So, the Harper government got smacked down by the speaker—now what?
Yesterday afternoon, the speaker of the House of Commons, Peter Milliken , ruled against the Harper government on two...
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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...
City News
Ottawa rumours: election may arrive earlier than anticipated, Liberals grow spine
In the increasingly fevered world of Ottawa politics, it’s looking like opposition parties may not wait for an opportunity to...
City News
Battleground Toronto: leaked memo shows that Conservatives really, really, really want “very ethnic” Toronto votes
The latest scandal in Ottawa is that immigration minister Jason Kenney , who’s been charged with building the Conservative brand...
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City News
G20 aftermath: despite “shocking” abuses, there likely won’t be a full inquiry without at least two elections
Yesterday saw yet another release of a report [PDF] on police actions during last year’s G20 weekend. The Canadian Civil...
City News
Conservatives loudly trumpet stimulus spending—just not in Toronto
Yesterday, Conservative MPs streamed out of Ottawa and across the country to tout the spending they’d done under the Canadian...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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
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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
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
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