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Nifty map reveals low-income neighbourhoods will be hit hardest by looming budget cuts
Marathon committee meetings are pretty much a hallmark of the Rob Ford era now, with not one but two sleepovers and the ongoing...
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Generous (and apparently oblivious) Doug Ford offers his own money to save a school nutrition program
After a particularly touching deputation on a public school nutrition program at city hall yesterday, Doug Ford surprised the...
City News
Sun columnist calls city hall deputants “whiners,” then creates silly nicknames for council’s left
Sue-Ann Levy broke out a remarkably uncreative list of nicknames for her favourite lefty councillors in the Toronto Sun today...
Food & Drink
Booze Economics 101: Why the LCBO happily charges more and earns less than it might
Better grab a bottle of Wild Turkey and sit down before trying to understand this one. In an annual report released on...
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Quoted: Mike Del Grande on the vulnerable, and how they’re getting in the way of a balanced budget
That’s budget chief Mike Del Grande lamenting that the impact of service fees on the poor might prevent council from making the...
City News
Rob Ford looks to contract out more city jobs; Doug Holyday finds out from the newspaper
Mayor Rob Ford is continuing his quest to build a city where the private sector cleans your streets, cuts your grass and...
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Ryerson journalism professor to the Star: Fight the power (quietly)
The long-running spat between Mayor Rob Ford and the Toronto Star ramped up last week: first the Star filed a complaint with the...
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We’re guessing closing a shelter (or three) for abused and homeless women (probably) won’t help Rob Ford pass his budget
For Mayor Rob Ford , a necessary part of passing the 2012 budget will be maintaining at least some level of public support and, by...
City News
Rob Ford spoils hundreds of city workers’ holidays with plans for massive layoffs
Mayor Rob Ford’ s casual disdain for city workers is no secret—in September he referred to them collectively as...
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Rob Ford’s finance figures continue to look rather arbitrary—still, he won’t give up his apocalyptic budget rhetoric
The National Post referred to the most significant cuts in the proposed 2012 budget as “highlights,” which we find slightly...
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Port Lands development may be on the fast track (but no word if that track is a monorail)
One product of Doug Ford ’s failed attempt to turn the Port Lands into a waterfront amusement park is a commitment to expediting...
City News
With the gravy train essentially out of steam (and gravy), the new budget marks Rob Ford’s toughest political test to date
Today city manager Joe Pennachetti unveils the 2012 budget, which among other things entails the first projected spending decrease...
City News
Instead of fixing 311, Rob Ford’s allies blame underperforming city workers
Mayor Rob Ford ’ s allies didn’t take long to start using city hall’s 311 phone service as a political tool. The National...
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Did Rob Ford run for mayor on a left-wing campaign promise?
Here’s a real knee-slapper: Toronto activist Dave Meslin says Rob Ford ran for mayor on a left-wing political platform. Meslin...
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Unions continue to make it easy for Rob Ford to win the PR war
Sid Ryan, the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, is accusing Mayor Rob Ford of seeking potential scab workers in the...
City News
The Q&A: Nick Kouvalis is cashing in on his newfound cachet right, left and centre
A chat with the political strategist everyone wants in their corner In a year, you’ve gone from mastermind of Rob Ford’s...
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Ford fact check: apparently, city staffers not as gravy-drenched as once thought
Remember back in 2010 when then–mayoral candidate Rob Ford said the city could balance its books without layoffs? How times have...
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Can Rob Ford tell the difference between wasteful and regular-government-has-to-run-a-city spending?
The budget committee continued the city’s march toward reducing spending last week, approving a motion that will eliminate...
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Ryan Gosling proves that caring about municipal politics is sexy
Under the category “memes that won’t die” are Ryan Gosling macros, which up until now have tackled feminist issues and the...
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Following a poorly planned attempt at buyouts, city decides to just lay off workers instead
City manager Joe Pennachetti confirmed the city will be laying workers off. The layoffs, of course, are part of mayor Rob Ford ’...
City News
Member of the one per cent goes to St. James Park, yells at Occupy Toronto
“You couldn’t cut the hypocrisy with a chainsaw in this park.” That was Brad Geddes , managing partner and chief executive...
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Rob Ford won’t get an advance on surplus transit funds, but clings to his Sheppard subway fantasy anyway
Mayor Rob Ford ’s dreams of a privately financed Sheppard subway extension have been on life support for some time now, and news...
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The Toronto Sun joins Rob Ford in creating a new slow-roasted redefinition of the word gravy
There was a time when the word “gravy” referred to swollen expense budgets and perks handed out to politicians that were...
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City document outlines stringent demands to unions, work stoppage pretty much inevitable
The Globe and Mail is reporting that the city’s list of demands to unionized workers “amounts to a fundamental overhaul of the...
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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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