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Trendwatch: “swatting”—as in SWAT teams in your home—comes to Toronto
On the list of things that might interrupt a nice quiet day at home, a visit from a fully armed SWAT team probably ranks near the...
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How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
City News
Next up on Toronto’s budget chopping block: more than 1,000 police officers and staff
Here’s a clear case where Rob Ford ’s rhetoric meets fiscal reality: the Toronto police are telling any reporters who ask...
City News
Another Toronto Star columnist tries out the whole civic government thing
One more case like this and it’ll officially be a trend. First, Rosie DiManno took over the SIU’s investigation into the...
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SIU closes investigation into the Adam Nobody assault—again
The total number of police officers who will be charged in the beating of Adam Nobody at last summer’s G20 summit...
City News
G20 Aftermath: one of the largest mass arrests in Canadian history nets only a handful of charges
This Sunday marks the first anniversary of the G20 summit in Toronto, and instead of a celebratory kettle of local citizens—you...
City News
G20 aftermath: it’s rough being a cop in Toronto this summer
We’ve spent a bunch of time and pixels blogging about how the city has recovered (or not) from the G20— and...
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Another front-page treatment on the Star, another officer charged with G20 offenses
The Toronto Star continued to do the investigative work the Toronto police would prefer it didn’t, managing once more to splash...
City News
Four things we learned from the auditor general’s report on the G20
Back in the dim mists of time— about six weeks ago , during that whole election thingy—we took a moment’s pause from the...
City News
SlutWalk continues to inspire a global movement, this time on the streets of New Delhi
The story of SlutWalk is one that we find pleasantly surprising. In case anybody missed it, the narrative went like this: cop says...
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Real Estate News
Dundas West neon bike the latest casualty in Ford’s war on public art
Last week, Rob Ford ’s clean-walls crusade erased a mural the city paid a local artist to paint. Then, a couple days later, news...
City News
Doug Holyday wants to fight panhandling—also, party—like it’s 1999
Reviving measures from the Mel Lastman era probably isn’t a good idea on principle. But apparently at least one member of the...
City News
YouTube vids created for class get student suspended, spark cries of free speech
Like many Toronto youth, Jack Christie posts videos to YouTube . Sure, his animated clips are often off-colour and crude—but...
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G20 inquiry opens with outrage—but will it give the city a sense of catharsis?
Toronto is still smarting from the chaos of last year’s G20 meeting. Instead of a serious public reckoning, half-hearted...
City News
G20 Aftermath: the Toronto Star makes the police look silly (yet again)
The Star has been like a dog with a bone when it comes to the fallout from last summer’s G20 summit, diligently following the...
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...
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What the heck is happening on Finch?
Finch Avenue West is one of the lingering casualties of Rob Ford’s war on Transit City. One of the busiest bus routes in...
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...
Food & Drink
Pizza Gigi saga update: police put restraint order on the Harbord pizza shop
The saga of the alleged drug peddling at Pizza Gigi continues, as the police move to block any sale on the shop. Back in...
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Yesterday’s arrest means Parkdale can breathe a little easier—but the treatment of the mentally ill remains an issue
After a disturbing series of assaults that targeted residents with mental illness—some of whom were elderly—in the city’s...
City News
Who leaked on Layton? We look at why each party may have tipped off Sun News
On Friday night, Sun Media broke the news that it had acquired the notes of a retired police officer who once found NDP leader...
City News
Pride Festival still in Mammoliti’s crosshairs despite city staff declining to call “Israeli Apartheid” hate speech
One of the actions the city has undertaken in relation to the annual Pride Festival is to ask its staff to determine if the use of...
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Toronto cops flood “sunshine list” of public servants pulling in over $100,000 (Officer Bubbles included!)
Ontario’s sunshine list has once again let everyone know which public servants made at least six figures in the previous...
City News
Shania Twain’s alleged stalker arrested at the Juno Awards
Shania Twain was in for a surprise at last Sunday’s Juno Awards. It wasn’t her induction into the Canadian Music Hall of...
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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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