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Rob Ford Crack Scandal
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Quoted: Rob Ford’s lawyer on why the mayor wants the public to see the crack video
— Dennis Morris, who has the unenviable job of being Rob Ford’ s lawyer, making an unexpected push for police to release the...
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Quoted: Rob Ford responds to the crack video revelations swirling around him
—Mayor Rob Ford, on today’s damning disclosures about his private life. The mayor’s morning started off poorly when...
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Rob Ford’s approval rating drops a whopping 10 per cent in one month—and that was before today’s crack video bombshell
On a Halloween marked by media frenzy, crack video revelations (it exists, in case you missed it) and a Twitterlanche of witty...
City News
15 witty Twitter reactions to the latest Rob Ford crack video revelations
Whenever earth-shattering news breaks—and Police Chief Bill Blair’ s incredible revelation about the very real Rob Ford crack...
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Cover Preview: Check out Toronto Life’s December cover featuring Rob Ford and Bill Blair
Our December issue, which features our annual ranking of the 50 most influential people in Toronto, goes out to subscribers next...
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Rob Ford Crack Scandal: Toronto police chief Bill Blair confirms that the cops have the Rob Ford crack video
At a packed press conference this morning, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair completely and utterly shocked the city by revealing...
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Rob Ford Crack Scandal: The top 10 Rob Ford-related revelations from the police document on Alessandro Lisi (so far)
1. There were more than 100 meetings between mayor Rob Ford and alleged drug dealer Alessandro Lisi over the course of this...
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SPOTTED: Rob Ford secretly meeting alleged drug dealer Alexander Lisi
A large portion of a police document about the investigation of Rob Ford’ s friend and alleged drug dealer Sandro Lisi has now...
City News
Police watched Gawker editor John Cook watch the Rob Ford crack video
Here’s a comforting bit of news for Gawker editor John Cook: as he sat in a car outside a Dixon Road housing development last...
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Rob Ford hired a drug enforcer to coach high school football
Another day, another shady Rob Ford buddy. Meet Peter Payman (a.k.a. Payman Aboodowleh, Payman Aboodowieh and/or Pejman...
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Updated: Doug Ford claims police used an airplane to spy on the mayor (but he’s totally not worried about it)
The newest Ford family revelations—which happen to involve Doug Ford flipping the bird at small aircraft—lift the Rob Ford...
City News
Quoted: Rob Ford holds a press conference at a gas station to address his friend’s drug charges
—A “very surprised” Rob Ford, not quite commenting on the drug charges against buddy and occasional driver Sandro Lisi...
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Rob Ford’s friend is arrested on drug charges; reporters rejoice
Whenever the Rob Ford crack rumour machine starts to slows down, a crazy new development gives the media a chance to rehash all...
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The list of Rob Ford’s sketchy friends keeps growing
The Star published a lengthy investigative piece over the weekend alleging police are investigating the efforts of Rob Ford’ s...
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The Toronto Star names the man who tried to hock the Rob Ford crack video
The Rob Ford crack scandal is all but dead. Gawker has given up on buying the video; Ford has replaced all his departed...
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Gawker gives up on buying the Rob Ford crack video
Gawker has officially called off its quest for the infamous Rob Ford crack video—which doesn’t come as a big surprise since...
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Q&A: Robyn Doolittle, the Star’s Ford-stalking, video-watching, hate mail–receiving journalist du jour
You were a little-known reporter covering the municipal beat. Then the mayor does crack—or not—you watch a video and you’re...
City News
Crack Facts: a look at everything we know about the Rob Ford drug scandal
Six weeks into the Rob Ford crack scandal, the surge of new details has slowed to a trickle, the video is likely gone and the...
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Here’s what the massive pre-dawn drug raid had to do with Rob Ford
After a (mostly) quiet week on the ongoing Rob Ford crack scandal, the rumour-mill revved up again this morning when police...
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Rob Ford Crack-o-Meter: Ford runs like a schoolgirl and Sarah Thomson does something dumb
Rob Ford has skated through some humiliating situations and emerged relatively unscathed. The crack-smoking scandal, though, has...
City News
Rob Ford Crack-o-Meter: Ford visited a shady bungalow and a former staffer does some naughty tweeting
Rob Ford has skated through some humiliating situations and emerged relatively unscathed. The crack-smoking scandal, though, has...
City News
Rob Ford Video LOLz: The Mayor Mistakes The ROM For A Giant Crack Rock on Jimmy Kimmel
Earlier this week, Rob Ford suggested to Toronto radio station KISS 92.5 that the brouhaha at city hall is actually good for the...
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Rob Ford Crack-o-Meter: the crack video owners are fed up and Ford’s office becomes a tourist attraction
Rob Ford has skated through some humiliating situations and emerged relatively unscathed. The crack-smoking scandal, though, has...
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Five things we learned from Gawker’s update about the Rob Ford crack video
In a lengthy post last night, Gawker editor John Cook revealed some bad news about the campaign to buy the Rob Ford crack video:...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
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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