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Q&A: Liberal leadership front-runner Sandra Pupatello on traffic, the TTC and marrying a Newfoundlander
Sandra Pupatello was McGuinty’s pit bull for eight years before decamping to the private sector. Now she’s back, gunning for...
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Real Estate News
A two-acre lot at Yonge and Wellesley could house a new city park, or condo towers
A prized two-acre piece of provincial land at Yonge and Wellesley is up for sale and councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam is fighting hard...
City News
QUOTED: Doug Ford on why he may quit city politics by July
—Councillor and would-be MPP Doug Ford, on why he may make his leap to provincial politics as soon as this summer, rather than...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 14, because there’s beauty in this beast
In a city overrun with delicate glass towers, 222 Jarvis is an oddity. The hulking, inverted ziggurat, opened in 1971 as...
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City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 18, because we’re stem cell pioneers
Toronto is home to some of the top stem cell research institutes in the world, including the McEwen Centre, the Centre for...
City News
Rob Ford invites Dalton McGuinty to hang out—at a community housing building
When the province decided to delay the city’s decision to sell 65 Toronto Community Housing homes, Rob Ford first took a formal...
Real Estate News
Coming soon: updates to the Condominium Act (and two chances to air grievances)
The provincial government is reaching out to the million condo dwellers in Ontario to help upgrade the 1998 Condominium Act into...
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City News
TTC versus Metrolinx: can the Eglinton Crosstown be finished by 2020?
The ongoing power struggle between the TTC and Metrolinx is ramping up over the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Backed...
City News
Jan Wong: Why the LCBO—the antiquated, paternalistic monopoly that’s deliberately gouging us—has got to go
On a recent Sunday afternoon, I stopped by the LCBO’s flagship Summerhill store. A glorious 35,000 square feet of creamy Italian...
Real Estate News
A Toronto MPP is one step closer to creating a tribunal to protect condo owners
Trinity-Spadina MPP Rosario Marchese might finally be able to push his pet legislation project through the provincial...
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Councillors try—and fail—to wriggle out of jury duty
A majority of city councillors want to get out of serving jury duty like federal and provincial politicians (making us wonder...
City News
Tim Hudak pretends that silly Sheppard council meeting never happened
Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak took some time this week to catch up on his correspondence, sending out 100,000...
City News
QUOTED: Dalton McGuinty threatens to take the transit fight to the airwaves
— Dalton McGuinty musing on ways to more effectively deliver the message that he’s siding with council on its recent transit...
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City News
Rob Ford’s re-election campaign seems to be off to a good start, continuing the imaginary fight for subways
The Globe and Mail says the conflicting messages from Dalton McGuinty and Rob Ford on the transit file are enough to make the two...
City News
Confidence Man: how Glen Murray is positioning himself to grab the reins of political power
The famously gay former mayor of Winnipeg was lured to Toronto by a group of backroom nabobs and remade as an influential member...
City News
Dalton McGuinty says council is supreme; Tim Hudak says it should be ignored
Apparently, no amount of midnight subway riding will help Rob Ford convince Dalton McGuinty to contravene city council and build...
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City News
Shrewd move by provincial Liberals puts John Tory in charge of Ontario Place revitalization
Earlier this week, the provincial government shut down Ontario Place to make way for a major redevelopment of the entertainment...
City News
Jan Wong: Why aren’t schools teaching kids about the pleasures and perils of sex?
The answer is simple: our curriculum is shamefully outdated, and the Liberals are too scared to fix it Adam and Eve nibble an...
City News
Rob Ford and co. fall back on the same old transit talking points (subways, subways, subways)
In the face of mounting dissent around his transit plan, Rob Ford and his inner circle are dusting off their trusty set of talking...
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Could a penny-pinching Queen’s Park force the Eglinton Crosstown above ground?
Last week, economist and former federal financial official Don Drummond delivered some unwelcome news for Ontario residents: a...
Style
Apparently, Ontario is safe from Nazi saboteurs, so the province looks to scrap decades-old law
The provincial government is looking to replace the Public Works Protection Act, better known as the “secret G20 law,” which...
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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City News
Daycare: another reason that Rob Ford’s adversarial relationship with the premier is bad news
More bad news for anyone relying on daycare, courtesy of the Toronto Star: provincial cash might be the only thing that could...
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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’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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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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