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Porter adds two new destinations, but they’re probably not what you were hoping for
No DC or Philly flights for Porter just yet. The Toronto Island-based airline announced new destinations today and it looks like...
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City News
Stephen Harper announces changes to citizen’s arrest laws in most election-y way possible
More and more, it’s looking like Canada is going to have an election on May 2 . There are signs are everywhere: rumours aplenty...
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...
City News
Ottawa moves to make a tunnel to the Island Airport legal
Now that they’re not asking for government money, the Toronto Port Authority should have an easy time building the planned...
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City News
Why isn’t everyone celebrating Michael Ignatieff’s five-year anniversary the way they celebrated Harper’s? Oh, right
As any Canadian with access to newspapers, TV or the Internet knows, Stephen Harper celebrated his fifth anniversary as prime...
City News
Report: Tony Clement beats Stephen Harper on Twitter; most MPs are still pre-2002
How do modern politics and social media mix? Not well, it seems. A new report by digital public affairs strategist and...
City News
G20 Aftermath: Toronto police get to play keepsies with their toys from the G20
It’s always hard to give something up once it’s been held and played with a little bit—just ask any kindergarten teacher...
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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
Measured against other countries, are Canadians getting hosed by their ISPs? Let’s compare
One of the biggest questions raised by this week’s usage-based billing fracas is whether Canadians are getting ripped off by...
City News
Ottawa reviewing CRTC decision on download caps; observers stunned that Canadians actually care about telecom regulations
When the CRTC announced the final part of its decision on usage-based billing for Canadian Internet service providers, they...
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City News
Pride Toronto’s severe case of TGIF: how the gay and lesbian festival ended up having one of its worst weeks ever
This has been a nasty week for Pride Toronto. The bad news started on Wednesday, when it came out that Pride had overspent its...
City News
Reaction roundup: what the country is saying about Stephen Harper’s fifth anniversary as prime minister
Sunday was big in Ottawa. January 23 marked five years ago to the day that Stephen Harper won his first election victory. His talk...
City News
Sick of waiting, media basically calls federal election on its own
We’re hardly innocent of the charge of election speculating—at this point, we’re going with “probably, but meh”—but...
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City News
National Post discusses the monarchy’s role in Canada. What’s more useless—the debate over the Crown, or the Crown itself?
We’re sort of hoping the Post is doing its part to distract the nation from the incredibly silly debate over kirpans, and we’d...
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...
City News
New interactive map shows which baby names are popular in all of Toronto’s neighbourhoods
What’s in a name? Apparently, quite a bit. A new interactive map by Toronto’s master of geo-data, Patrick Cain —he’s the...
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Michael Ignatieff drowned out as media clamours to mark Harper’s five years in power
The country is coming up to a significant milestone: in under a week ( next Monday, to be precise ), Stephen Harper will have been...
Real Estate News
Conservatives bring in new mortgage restrictions, suggest some Canadians can’t manage their money
Ottawa was abuzz with speculation this morning, when the feds announced an early press conference with Jim Flaherty . Was it to be...
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...
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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
This week in whining: holdout provinces say Ottawa’s securities regulator can’t have a logo
In the ongoing family feud between Ottawa and some recalcitrant provinces over whether to have a national securities regulator or...
City News
GTA slowly becoming election battleground: Julian Fantino makes it to cabinet, Peter Kent gets a promotion
With the news breaking last night that there was going to be a cabinet shuffle this afternoon, all eyes turned to Ottawa, where...
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Culture
Chapters-Indigo versus Canadian publishers: a battle looms over the fate of CanLit
The publishing industry in this country has long maintained a precarious equilibrium thanks to a bewildering but effective set of...
City News
SIU charges Toronto officer in Adam Nobody beating, as poll shows confidence in police slipping
Breaking news today as the SIU—the body looking into police behaviour during the G20—announces it has finally, after the...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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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