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Casa Loma may get new management—but who should be new king of the castle?
One of the fights brewing this summer has nothing to do with the mayoral race (so far). Instead, this is a fight between David...
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s stadium food is expensive and fattening, but at least it’s vermin-free
ESPN has put together a pretty hilarious interactive map that compiles health inspection reports from professional sports...
City News
The job report: explaining Canada’s post-recession bounce
We keep hearing about the amazing Canadian economic rebound—some 300,000 new jobs in the past year. Is Bay Street paving the way...
City News
Toronto MP Joe Volpe proposes new rights for shopkeepers, including bondage
One of the larger controversies in Chinatown and Kensington Market over the past year has been the case of David Chen, who is...
City News
Furious George on Adam Giambrone: “We should be glad he will soon be out of our hair”
Furious George has managed to keep his cool in public of late—perhaps his epic stroll across the city is part of his new Zen...
City News
The Star turns to soothsaying in pondering Michael Ignatieff’s future
Times are tough for the University of Toronto. The hallowed faculty of arts and sciences is looking at a $60-million deficit. When...
City News
Hogweed hits Hogtown: plant oozing blindness-causing goo spreads through Toronto
The G20 summit may be over, but now Toronto faces a new calamity in the form of hogweed, a gigantic poisonous plant that’s...
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City News
Take that, Bay Street: no securities regulator headquarters for you
Chalk one up for passive-aggressive politics. One of Stephen Harper’s signature projects since taking office has been the...
City News
New service allows riders to text the TTC to learn how late streetcars will be
The service's stickers went up in May, but those texting for TTC schedules via the new streetcar notification system have been...
City News
Canada’s new governor general: thinker, educator, rapper
Move over, Drake. There's a new guy about to steal the gangsta spotlight in Canada, and he just happens to be our new governor...
Food & Drink
Ottawa resto-bar bans babies, begins brawl
It all started simply enough: a new restaurant in the south end of Ottawa, Taylor's Wine and Food Bar, was welcoming a patron who...
Culture
Lloyd Robertson to retire. We name five improbable replacements
Veteran news anchor Lloyd Robertson has announced his retirement as anchor of CTV's nightly news, effective late next year. There...
City News
Did the GG’s hubby, Jean-Daniel Lafond, suggest the Queen shouldn’t stay at Rideau Hall?
The Queen has left Canada without naming a replacement for Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, as some had speculated she might. But...
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City News
G20 reviews just keep on coming
Speaking on CBC's Metro Morning earlier today, Councillor Adam Vaughan announced that the Toronto Police Services Board would...
City News
Toronto ranked 78th priciest city in the world for expats
Torontonians love to complain about every costly entity from real estate to Ticketmaster, but according to the most recent Mercer...
City News
Toronto MPs demand that Ottawa pay up for G20
Somehow, we can't imagine this is destined for success: Toronto-area Liberal MPs are demanding that Ottawa foot the bill for...
City News
Tweetquake 2010: minor geological event causes social media avalanche
Everybody, check for injuries or property damage—that was an earthquake you felt 24 hours ago. OK? Good, let's move on to the...
City News
Google can basically show the street address of the earthquake
Amid hilarious speculation that Quebec is literally separating from the rest of Canada, there is some actual news coming out about...
City News
EARTHQUAKE! Toronto media takes collective sigh of relief as they briefly get to stop reporting on the G20
Many people are reporting via Twitter that yes, indeed, there was an earthquake in Toronto about five minutes ago. CityNews had...
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City News
Doth protest too much? Rating the threat levels of anarchists, anti-capitalists and other G20 haters
The big dailies are issuing their warnings about the onslaught of G20 protesters, many of whom are already converging on our...
Culture
New Canadian Monopoly unveiled, Toronto relegated to light blue
Toronto real estate may be red hot, but in the fictitious marketplace of the classic board game Monopoly, Toronto is about as...
City News
Harper lamer than Mulroney suggests Harper minister Peter Van Loan
Peter Van Loan is now a minister in Stephen Harper 's cabinet, but back in 1988, he was a young volunteer helping out with what...
City News
Bedbugs be gone: G20 preparations now extend to insect world
Since the feds certainly haven’t skimped on security spending for the G8 and G20 summits, we’re hoping that officials have the...
City News
Tories spend $10M on North Bay airport for G8; no G8 planes actually landing there
We’ve got to hand it to the Star , which is being utterly relentless in following the G8/G20 spending debacle. Today's front...
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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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