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The city releases secret to cancelling parking tickets: pretty much any excuse works
After what sounds like years of conspiracies and cover-ups, drivers finally have a shot against the sneaky tactics of parking...
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Food & Drink
The all-new, futuristic St. Lawrence Market unveiled at last
St. Lawrence Market’s historic north building is getting a not-so-historic-looking facelift. Yesterday, David Miller and...
City News
Official G20 security zone announced
Now that Toronto officials have unveiled downtown’s restricted areas for the impending G20 summit, there's a clearer picture of...
City News
G20’s Toronto takeover: a roundup of snarls, snags, closures and general headaches
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the perimeter fences that will cordon off vast swaths of downtown for the G20 (June 25 to...
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City News
Smitherman wants to de-ugly waterfront rink complex
Oh so slowly, the mayoral campaign of George Smitherman is growing out of its timid, quiet childhood into a prickly...
City News
G20 organizers: the only childish games during the summit will be at the convention centre
As the G20 summit looms, it’s looking more and more like Toronto FC will be the only thing in the city not brought to a complete...
City News
Howard Moscoe: a retrospective of antics
Last week, we saw some strange antics from city councillor Howard Moscoe . First, he invited drivers to support transit with those...
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Real Estate News
Toronto’s waterfront fiasco: Christopher Hume is hopping mad all over again
Christopher Hume, whose love-hate relationship with Toronto plays out regularly (and amusingly) in the Star ’s urban issues and...
Real Estate News
Home of the week: $6.1 million to live in Yorkville’s Hazelton Hotel
ADDRESS: 118 Yorkville Ave. (a.k.a. the Hazelton Hotel), Suite 501 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Yorkville AGENT: Janet Marlene Lindsay, Chestnut...
City News
Diplomatic immunity doled out to thousands of Toronto visitors as G20 approaches
While Torontonians will be subject to rigorous security measures for the upcoming G20 summit, it’s a different story for foreign...
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City News
The Ryerson revolution: how the once dumpy polytechnic is redrawing downtown
Sheldon Levy, Ryerson’s fiercely ambitious president, persuaded students, politicians and Bay Street to bankroll his big...
City News
City tempts either disaster or nirvana as it moves closer to 24 km of bike lanes along Bloor-Danforth
Despite apocalypse-heralding opponents, the city of Toronto is pushing forward with a controversial proposal to establish a...
City News
Vaughan councillor fails to read parking sign, commits “political suicide”
We don’t know if arrogance, absentmindedness or laziness was to blame when Vaughan councillor Tony Carella slipped his wife’s...
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Food & Drink
The truth behind turducken, Corey Mintz now cooking for monkeys, the suffering of Roncesvalles
• With the charm of a bloated pit bull and packing a painful 900 calories a slice, turducken might be a “guaranteed show...
Food & Drink
How the mighty have fallen: 24 more restaurant closures
Since our last report on restaurant closures in August, the wake of the worst economic storm in decades has forced scores of...
Food & Drink
Study of Ossington hip strip is bad news for new restaurant owners and patio lovers across Toronto
When Toronto’s most notorious fuddy-duddy, Joe Pantalone, championed last May’s ban on new licences along lower Ossington, the...
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Food & Drink
Can I really get out of a parking ticket by applying for a court date?
With our city short on courtrooms and judges, $30 parking tickets aren’t exactly a priority, so, yes, fighting a ticket will...
Food & Drink
My neighbours put chairs out to reserve plum parking spots
Saving a space on the street—whether with pylons, recycling bins, hockey sticks taped to milk crates, or balloon-bedecked chairs...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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