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provincial election 2011
City News
Sun News turns literary soft-core porn scandal into Tory election spot
Yesterday, the Toronto Star reported that the official in charge of disciplining troublesome Ontario teachers was moonlighting as...
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Hudak delivers an electoral gift to McGuinty in the form of controversial flyer
Tim Hudak gave the Liberal and NDP campaigns some free advertising yesterday, when he defended a campaign flyer that deploys scare...
City News
Provincial Election Leaders’ Debate: The Drinking Game
Sure, this hasn’t been the most exciting election in recent memory (that honour has to go to last year’s bizarre municipal...
City News
Ancestry.ca reveals Dalton McGuinty and Tim Hudak are distantly related, generates publicity for itself
The duel for premier seems to have reached an impasse , and an announcement by Ancestry.ca today could offer an...
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City News
Horwath and Hudak both making vague, happy noises about paying for the “privately funded” Sheppard subway
It looks as though Mayor Rob Ford ’ s Sheppard subway extension plan might be getting some more love from the people who want to...
Culture
QUOTED: Disgruntled Grits leak email urging provincial Liberals to skip TIFF
— Ontario Liberal chief of staff Chris Morley in a leaked email with the subject line “gentle reminder” [ Toronto Star ]
City News
Provincial NDP goes after Toronto’s new rapidly growing demographic: condo-dwellers
In the May federal election, the NDP picked up a number of seats in Toronto that nobody thought they really had a chance at back...
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City News
Could a Tea Party–esque movement be good for Toronto?
With federal and provincial elections looming, there’s a good chance that Torontonians will have conservative leaders all the...
City News
Lefties take a page out of the Harper playbook with new anti–Tim Hudak attack ad
Attack ads are by no means new in Canadian politics, but the Harper Tories’ slice-and-dice jobs on Michael Ignatieff and St é...
City News
407 extension approved with a blank cheque, in latest example of Liberal seat-protection
As part of its recent spending restraint, the Liberal government of Ontario, led by Dalton McGuinty , truncated its plans to...
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If Ford Nation can’t get cash out of Premier McGuinty, could they squeeze it out of Premier Hudak?
We mentioned last week that Mayor Rob Ford is threatening to campaign against the Liberal government if Dalton McGuinty doesn’t...
City News
Battleground Toronto: with Doug Ford staying on city council, Tim Hudak’s job just got a little harder
The CBC is reporting that Doug Ford , the mayor’s brother and occasional stand-in when reporters can’t get a quote from the...
City News
Sarah Thomson and Liberals continue mating dance: she’ll run in whatever seat the party can find for her
The Toronto Star , having already reported that Sarah Thomson was going to run for the Ontario Liberals in Parkdale-High Park , is...
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Rob Ford promises “hardball” tactics if premier doesn’t pony up $150 million
In an interview this morning with Jerry Agar on Newstalk 1010, Mayor Rob Ford finished off a long interview about the trouble at...
City News
Mayor Rob Ford discovers his own personal spending problem, asks the province for $150 million
During the election campaign—and up to the present—the brothers Rob and Doug Ford have made it clear that Toronto has a...
City News
The Ontario election just got real, chemical warfare style
By this time last year, Toronto's election was busy wondering which titan of the left would replace Adam Giambrone , setting the...
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TMX-LSE merger gets cold shoulders from Ontario, Quebec and Ottawa
The heat of excitement that greeted the merger of the Toronto and London stock exchanges has met with a stiff, cold winter...
City News
Here’s something to make pinko cyclists cringe: “Doug Ford for Premier”
Rumours are abounding that the mayor’s brother, Doug Ford , is being courted by the provincial Tories under Tim Hudak —and...
City News
Rocco Rossi’s jump to the Tories leads to epic Twitter fights
The news yesterday that one-time mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi was jumping parties got an angry response from those who had...
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Provincial election ramp up: Rocco Rossi joins Conservatives in name and not just in fact
Rumours started swirling last week that former mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi was going to join the Progressive Conservative Party...
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Sarah Thomson lands on her feet, may be gearing up to run for Parkdale seat as a McGuinty Liberal
Hey, remember Sarah Thomson ? The come-from-nowhere candidate for mayor who made us all fall in love with subways , but failed to...
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Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions