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Q&A: Education Minister Liz Sandals on getting the new sex ed curriculum past a mob of angry parents
In September, under your new curriculum, students will learn about anal and oral sex starting in Grade 7. Why is that the...
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Six Degrees of John H. Tory: a peek at the high-powered Rolodex of our new Mayor McSchmooze
(images: John H. Tory by Markian Lozowchuk; Liz Tory, Slaight, Phillips, Peterson, Horn, Lind, Crombie, Mulroney, Campbell by...
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Q&A: Barbara Hall, the ex-mayor and human rights commissioner who just can’t quit politics
Over the course of her long career, Barbara Hall has been (among other things) an activist, a lawyer, a city councillor, a...
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Ten things Denzil Minnan-Wong can’t live without
The outspoken city councillor—and Toronto’s backup mayor—shares the 10 things he can’t live without
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Try as we might, we can’t ignore Rob Ford—and neither should John Tory
Promises, promises. John Tory assured us he would make city hall boring again. He even held up boredom as an ideal, the grand...
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Rob Ford gets kicked out of council chambers for (what else?) not apologizing for doing something wrong
It started as most things do with Rob Ford : with a dispute over a vanishingly small amount of money. At today's city council...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I get my Ford-hating coworkers to stop mocking me?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a supporter of the Fords. When people badmouthed them at work, I stood up for them. Now that Tory’s...
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#TorontoIsFailingMe: I ran against Rob Ford and suffered the consequences
My parents came to Toronto from Somalia during the civil war. I’m the fourth of nine children: eight girls and one boy. I still...
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The best way to fix city council’s diversity problem? More money.
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve had brief conversations with black candidates who, like me, ran in the last election. We’re a...
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Q&A: Nick Kouvalis, the kingmaker behind both Rob Ford and John Tory’s mayoral wins
If you’re planning on becoming mayor of Toronto at some point, you might want to call up Nick Kouvalis. As an architect of Rob...
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Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti gets a court fine for breaking campaign-finance laws
—The fine levied on councillor Giorgio Mammoliti after he pleaded guilty , this morning, to four campaign-finance offences he...
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Ontario’s auditor general says public-private partnerships may not actually be a magic source of money, after all
—The approximate amount of money the provincial government could have saved over the past decade if it had successfully...
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A 14-year-old document sheds light on The Beer Store’s baffling beer monopoly
—The amount of extra money the LCBO could make each year if it were to compete more aggressively with The Beer Store, according...
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Now Magazine
’s adult classifieds may now be illegal
—The number of pages of advertisements for various kinds of sexual services in last week's 95-page issue of Now Magazine . The...
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Ontario cities are still waiting for relief money from 2013’s ice storm
—The amount of money that the provincial government has yet to hand over to Ontario's city governments as reimbursement for...
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TDSB Education Director Donna Quan’s pay package is now slightly less mysterious
— Donna Quan’ s current salary as director of education for the Toronto District School Board, according to a TDSB...
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A day into his mayoralty, John Tory riles up council’s left
—Newly elected Ward 20 councillor Joe Cressy in an interview with the National Post , after new mayor John Tory made it known...
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Ferguson, and why “at least things aren’t as bad here” isn’t good enough
On Monday morning, a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown . On...
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Martin Short, as Jiminy Glick: “Have you ever thought of maybe getting some cranes up there?"
— Martin Short , in character as the obsequious celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick , during an appearance alongside mayor-elect...
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Placating Ontario’s teachers cost Queen’s Park almost half a billion dollars
—The cost, to Ontario taxpayers, of placating the province's teachers' unions after 2012’s massive unrest , according to a new...
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Doug Ford is still really serious about winning the Ontario PC leadership
For a while, it seemed like Doug Ford ’s suggestion that he might run for and win leadership of the Ontario Progressive...
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Brampton mayor Susan Fennell’s money problems just got worse
—The amount of money Brampton's city council voted on Wednesday to force soon-to-be-former mayor Susan Fennell to pay the city...
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City manager Joe Pennachetti: “It was a long four years”
—City manager Joe Pennachetti , who announced his retirement in August, speaking, during a joint press conference with...
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Nobody believes Doug Ford’s “grassroots” supporters actually exist
Toronto faces an acute shortage of scare quotes this afternoon as news outlets around the city report on a new "grassroots"...
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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
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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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