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Rob Ford
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Quoted: Mayor Rob Ford on whether or not he sleeps on the job
— Rob Ford telling Toronto Sun reporter Don Peat that an Imgur picture (right) that appears to catch him sleeping on the job...
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Eight Halloween costume ideas for the discerning Torontonian, from the Ikea Monkey to the Cronut Burger
What you’ll need: Darwin is now going clothing free at an animal sanctuary, but you can revisit last winter’s media frenzy...
City News
POLL: Is Rob Ford being a robo-call bully?
Speeches, radio shows and fridge magnets are no longer enough for Rob Ford, who on Friday found a new way to broadcast his...
City News
The five weirdest metaphors Toronto city councillors used to describe the Scarborough subway
After four years, countless political squabbles and at least six competing proposals, Rob Ford’ s Scarborough subway dream is...
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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...
City News
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...
Food & Drink
Quoted: Rob Ford on the Toronto health board’s plan to make bar and restaurant patios smoke-free
– . As Ford made clear, his opposition to the initiative is purely ideological, since he actually hates the smell of...
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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...
City News
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...
City News
Drake and Rob Ford team up to try to make the Raptors cool again
Today in weird match-ups: at a Toronto Raptors press conference this morning, Drake and Rob Ford together announced that the team...
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Philip Preville: Why Kathleen Wynne needs Rob Ford
If Kathleen Wynne is to achieve anything for Toronto—and transit is top of the list—she needs Rob Ford to knock around Back in...
Culture
Quoted: Rob Ford on Smurfs 2, American Gangster and what he looks for in a quality film
– Rob Ford, dishing on his cinematic preferences after sashaying down the red carpet outside the TIFF Bell Lightbox...
City News
Quoted: Rob Ford finally admits to doing drugs
—Mayor Rob Ford, confessing to reporters yesterday that he’s used marijuana in the past. It wasn’t a particularly risky...
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Food & Drink
Quoted: Mayor Rob Ford on the gastronomically suspect Cronut Burger
–Even Mayor Rob Ford, not a man known for his vast reserves of self-control, turned down the Maple Bacon Cronut Burger at the...
City News
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...
City News
A primer on Rob Ford’s latest troubles, from nocturnal wanderings to a jailhouse visit
Just when we thought Rob Ford’ s public relations problems were petering out, there’s a spate of new allegations, each...
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Last Holyday: the highs and lows of Doug Holyday’s career in city politics
City hall will be a different place without Doug Holyday. After 28 years in municipal politics, the deputy mayor joins the...
City News
Doug Holyday beats out fellow city councillor Peter Milczyn to win a seat at Queen’s Park
Following a campaign full of petty swipes and arguments over photo ops, deputy mayor Doug Holyday triumphed over Liberal candidate...
City News
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...
City News
Philip Preville: Ford Nation is not who you think it is
Crackgate revealed that the city’s crippling political divide isn’t between downtowners and suburbanites—it’s between the...
City News
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...
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Rob Ford suspends staffer David Price for making a really boneheaded phone call
Here’s what we know about Rob Ford’ s shadowy director of logistics and operations David Price: he was Ford’s high school...
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Mayor May Not: John Tory inches towards admitting he wants to replace Rob Ford
John Tory upgraded his 2014 mayoral ambitions from “never say never” to “thinking about it” in an interview yesterday. The...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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