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Gordon Chong can’t deliver his Sheppard subway report on time (he’s also unsure about his future with the project)
Poor Gordon Chong. The man who Rob Ford shouldered with the impossible task of making his Sheppard dream a reality is behind on...
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TTC is set to save busy bus routes by assuming a sweet, sweet budget surplus
Having discovered a magical budget surplus, the TTC could save service on some busy bus routes and delay cuts to others all the...
City News
Rob Ford’s decision to cancel Transit City now comes with a $65-million price tag
TTC riders forced to pay increased fares for decreased service might be just a little bit perturbed to know what their money is...
City News
Sheppard subway needs a quick, cool $10 million to kick-start a private-public partnership
Apparently, the city’s (read: Rob Ford’ s) Sheppard subway dream could soon be a reality—just as long as the city is...
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Public transit is now going to be more crowded, less serviced and (likely) more expensive
With TTC vehicles about to get a little more crowded (or, you know, “friendlier”), Peter Milczyn is suggesting that a 15-cent...
City News
Metrolinx versus TTC: a public-private partnership for the Eglinton Crosstown?
The Toronto Star reports that Metrolinx is considering snubbing the TTC on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, opting instead for a...
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The intricacies of track work and other reasons the TTC sometimes sucks
“Why does a power problem at Davisville shut down pretty much the entire Yonge line?” a Torontoist reader asked, and the TTC...
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Metrolinx teases commuters with a downtown transit relief; but the TTC isn’t into it
The province’s transit authority is considering expediting the creation of a new downtown subway or light-rail line (or at...
City News
Buses cannot hold an infinite number of people—neither can streetcars or subways (even the Sheppard one)
All the talk of increased wait times and more crowded vehicles isn’t deterring Torontonians from riding the TTC—at least for...
City News
Councillor Pam McConnell gets into TTC fare dispute, handles incident like an adult
The eagle-eyed Toronto Sun devoted a 300-word news story to the following sequence of events that occurred last weekend: (1) Pam...
City News
Urban planner advocates for a new Toronto transit system—i.e. gondolas
Here’s a novel, if not totally insane, idea: urban planner and founder of Creative Urban Projects Steven Dale thinks Toronto...
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Apparently, TTC riders aren’t scared off public transit by things that haven’t happened yet
The TTC recently broke its record for single-day ridership, with 1.71 million rides on September 15, and ridership is expected to...
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TTC approves service cuts (or how riding the rocket just got a little squishier)
News broke recently that, apparently, it’s possible for TTC vehicles to be more crowded than they already are at rush hour. The...
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Reaction roundup: wherein reporters ask a number of questions regarding Doug Ford’s glorious vision of the waterfront’s future
Late last week, our friends at Torontoist reported that the city appeared to be making a move to seize control of development in...
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TTC to ban passengers who assault transit staff
In the aftermath of a particularly vicious assault on a TTC worker last Monday, the TTC is going to try to lower the boom on...
City News
Provincial Liberals blame Rob Ford for GTA transit woes; we admire the province’s chutzpah
As they gear up for the October election, the provincial Liberals have devised a simple plan: reduce their vulnerability to...
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Eglinton residents worried that Transit City’s crosstown LRT won’t make the streets any prettier
The NDP announced yesterday morning that its election platform would include funds for the TTC (and other transit systems across...
City News
Ford’s Transit Plan is finally out, and McGuinty wins the “Getting Ford to Compromise” prize
Looks like Mayor Rob Ford has picked up on the way a city is supposed to work: behind schedule, all the time. All it took was a...
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Fare evaders cost TTC $22 million in 2010
Whether they want subways or streetcars, nearly all Torontonians seems to agree that the city needs more public transit. Just one...
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Mayor Rob Ford discovers his own personal spending problem, asks the province for $150 million
During the election campaign—and up to the present—the brothers Rob and Doug Ford have made it clear that Toronto has a...
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Reaction roundup: Ford’s private subway financing faces its first critics
Mayor Rob Ford ’s plan to finance an extension of the Sheppard subway line with private money and higher taxes along the...
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Most unsurprising news of the day: Ford wants private cash to help build subways
Ever since Rob Ford won the election and declared subways for all, the big question has been where the city would find the money...
City News
Is Mississauga going lefty cyclist bleeding-heart pinko?
Last week, the city was swooning over Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi ’s visit. Since his election, the jokes among lefties about...
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The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
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The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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