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An individual in Peel is being monitored for hantavirus
They are the third person in Ontario to require isolation due to the virus
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A new Covid variant has reached Ontario
It sounds alarming, but experts say there is no cause for greater concern
City News
Q&A: Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s medical officer of health, on dealing with Doug Ford’s cuts
Measles is back, anti-vaxxers are on the march, but she’s still optimistic
City News
Toronto Public Health takes a stand against Jenny McCarthy
Toronto’s public health department is all riled up over The View's decision to hire former Playmate and anti-vaccination...
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City News
Philip Preville: The case for making bike helmets mandatory
Driving without a seat belt is considered absurdly reckless. Why isn’t cycling without a helmet? Any cyclist who’s ever been...
City News
City hall budget warfare, round two: blanket freeze edition
Last year’s painful budget deliberations may still feel fresh, but it’s already time to start examining the 2013...
Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: still more dried basil (including some from Kensington Market shops)
The products: unbranded basil from Toronto Cash and Carry (100 g) at 1405 Gerald St., House of Spice (50 g, 100 g, 200 g) at 190...
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Food & Drink
A preview of the Toronto Carretilla Initiative, Luminato’s roving cooking-meets-participatory-art project
The Toronto Carretilla Initiative is a free contemporary participatory art project that brings together for the first time the...
City News
A report recommends three safe-injection sites in Toronto, but the province doesn’t agree
Researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto took four years to produce a hefty report on safe...
Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: ground beef that’s contaminated with salmonella (not the E. coli of yestermonth)
The product: Intercity Packers Ltd. Beef Burger Meat Mix 80/20 The UPC: 90066172180172 Lot code: 046 Establishment number: 503 The...
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Food & Drink
One way to get farm-fresh eggs: become your neighbourhood’s egg kingpin
Alysa Golden knew what kind of eggs she was looking for—cruelty- and hormone-free—but she wasn’t having much luck finding...
Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: Another day, another E. coli warning
The products: Ground Beef—Fresh (9.07 kg package) and Country Fried Style Breaded Beef Steak Chopped and Formed (3.90 kg...
Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: more potentially contaminated burgers, this time sold, ahem, as Best Value
The product: Best Value–brand 10 Beef Burgers and 20 Beef Burgers The UPCs: 0 71212 88103 8 and 0 71212 88104 5, respectively...
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Doug Holyday has no problem with service cuts—except for services he likes
Apparently, fiscally conservative councillor Doug Holyday doesn’t quite get the concept of a double standard. He’s all for...
Food & Drink
Next year could see the return of chickens to Toronto’s backyards after a 29-year hiatus
An end to Toronto’s backyard chicken prohibition could be in sight, depending on the contents of a city staff report expected...
City News
Philip Preville: Why the city should start killing raccoons (kindly, of course)
Raccoons are everywhere, and at all times of the day. They’re a menace to private property and public health. It’s time we...
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Denzil Minnan-Wong now serving as bean counter–in–chief and lead gravy hunter for the Rob Ford administration
Thanks to a freedom of information query put forward by Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, who requested “the 25 highest mileage...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hardys, the second southern barbecue joint to grace St. Clair West
Back in May, we reported on an upcoming barbecue joint, Hardys: A Hogtown Brasserie (its name a riff on Toronto’s pig-farming...
City News
Rob Ford learns to say yes to gravy by saying no to bedbugs (and yes, for now, to nurses)
Toronto’s on-again, off-again relationship with public health nurses is now back on again, as the city’s budget committee...
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Food & Drink
Four workers at Ki, the Bay Street sushi standby, come down with the mumps
Ki , best known as the go-to sushi joint for suits in the Financial District, became famous this weekend for something only...
City News
Rob Ford says no to (free!) nurses, once again turning down (free!) provincial dollars for health
A pattern appears to be forming when it comes to Rob Ford and public health resources: first, the province offers the city...
Food & Drink
Cracking down: authorities trace ungraded eggs that showed up in six Scarborough food shops
Over the weekend, the Star reported that at least six Scarborough food stores, along with a few in York Region, have been charged...
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Ontario commits $5 million to war on bedbugs
We’re sure it has nothing to do with it being an election year in which Toronto’s vote- and bedbug-rich ridings will be a...
City News
Rob Ford introduces his first budget. Here are the highlights and lowlights
As we’ve already mentioned , Rob Ford introduced his budget at a morning press conference. There will be arguments aplenty over...
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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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