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Marit Stiles says Doug Ford could end up in prison if a public inquiry is called
“Other governments have had people end up behind bars for less than this,” the Ontario NDP leader said yesterday
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Inside the Toronto South Detention Centre, Toronto’s $1-billion hellhole
It was supposed to herald a progressive era of incarceration. Instead, the South has become a house of horrors
Life
When I was thrown into a Cuban prison for flying my drone, I thought I’d never see my family again
A sunny vacation morphs into an international incident
Life
My life in street gangs
Gang life gave me a sense of power and belonging that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Then a knife fight turned fatal
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The Captive: John Greyson’s time in Egyptian prison
John Greyson is the quintessential loud-and-proud gay activist—earnest, ardent and perpetually revved up about one cause or...
City News
The six most outrageous quotes from Garth Drabinsky’s day parole hearing
Garth Drabinsky must be a very well-behaved inmate, because the Livent co-founder and convicted fraudster was granted day parole...
City News
Barbara Amiel on Conrad Black’s flabby figure, terms of endearment and similarity to her dogs
Since getting out of jail, Conrad Black has rejected all media requests save a chat with CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge. Thank...
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Conrad Black opens up to Peter Mansbridge (on why he’s like a medieval leper)
Now that Conrad Black has been granted a one-year temporary residence permit and is back home in Toronto, he’s followed through...
City News
Conrad Black returns to Toronto (to a PDA from Barbara Amiel)
The man formerly known as prisoner no. 18330-424 (i.e. Conrad Black ) is back in Toronto—greeted at his Bridle Path home with an...
City News
Conrad Black’s getting out of jail, but he may not be able to move back to Toronto
America’s haughtiest jailbird, Conrad Black , is getting out of the slammer this weekend—and thinking longingly of...
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Garth Drabinsky needs to just accept that he’s staying in jail
Theatre impresario and fraudster Garth Drabinsky is actually, for real, finally out of appeals. The Supreme Court of Canada...
Real Estate News
A series of shady real estate deals in The Junction points toward mortgage fraud
Lawyer Ron Allan Hatcher has been suspended for his role at the centre of some rather unorthodox home sales in the west end. In...
City News
Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 11 (wherein Black compares himself to Job)
After what seems like a million pages (it’s actually 310), Conrad Black has finally been indicted. Boosted by testimony from...
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Muslim Canadian Congress Founder Tarek Fatah on being both a cancer patient and a survivor
In my life, I’d been run over by a car and survived two jail terms as a political prisoner. If cancer was going to kill me, I was at least going to have the last laugh
City News
More horror stories from the G20 detention centre means more searching for closure for the city
The long-simmering anger over the Toronto G20 was revived this week after the Toronto Star released surveillance footage from the...
City News
A look inside the temporary G20 detention centre, courtesy of the Toronto Star
Today the Star gave us a glimpse inside the temporary detention centre where police held alleged troublemakers during the G20...
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Financial fraudster Garth Drabinsky continues his valiant struggle against the Man
Professional grifter Garth Drabinsky refuses to just give up and go to jail already. The Toronto Star is reporting that...
City News
G20 rioter pens essay to avoid jail time, Matt Galloway fumes politely
A four-page essay may have helped a 22-year old avoid jail time for participating in Toronto’s G20 riots. Robin Henry’ s...
City News
The Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 1
When we found out that Conrad Black was releasing a book, we smacked our heads and thought, “Of COURSE!” Really, that Black...
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Conrad Black attacks Stephen Harper’s law-and-order agenda with a lot of big words
Critics of Stephen Harper ’ s prison corrections plan may have just found an unlikely ally—none other than convicted felon and...
City News
Conrad Black talks to Matt Galloway about the broken American criminal justice system (and how it’s done him wrong)
We’ve learned a lot about Conrad Black this week—be it his ability to make friends in the big house or that his verbose style...
City News
Apparently Conrad Black isn’t embarrassed about his time in the hoosegow; and he’s also tight with the mafia
With a serious legal defeat behind him and a return to prison in front of him, the smart play for Conrad Black would probably be...
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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
Rupert Murdoch momentarily snatches the crown as most despised media baron from Conrad Black
The bad news just keeps piling on. First, Conrad Black was sentenced to another 42 months in an American prison. Then, he was...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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