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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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Dear Urban Diplomat: how can I get my co-workers to stop bashing Rob Ford?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I am a Rob Ford supporter, and I work in an office where everyone, including my boss, bashes him. They even...
City News
National Post: stop comparing Rob Ford to Hitler, start charging for stuff
The Post’ s Chris Selley would really appreciate it if everyone lay off the comparisons between Mayor Rob Ford and Adolf...
City News
Watch Rob Ford make his ballet debut in The Nutcracker and totally nails his part
Mayor Rob Ford , by now a veteran of the theatre, made his hotly anticipated debut in the National Ballet’s production of The...
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Two questions: What does Toronto want? How can it be a better city?
The Grid’ s Edward Keenan would really, really appreciate it if politicians would stop framing the city’s budget debate in...
City News
Date of Rob Ford’s cameo in The Nutcracker revealed
Get your tickets right now: this Saturday at 2 p.m., Mayor Rob Ford will dress up in a ridiculous clown costume for the National...
City News
Graffiti Wars II: The Empire Strikes Back
Amid layoffs, public jobs getting contracted out and a looming lockout of city workers, the city is hiring three new employees to...
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Nifty map reveals low-income neighbourhoods will be hit hardest by looming budget cuts
Marathon committee meetings are pretty much a hallmark of the Rob Ford era now, with not one but two sleepovers and the ongoing...
City News
Quoted: Mike Del Grande on Playboy, public libraries and (imaginary) men in trench coats
That’s silver-tongued budget chief Mike Del Grande on the Toronto Public Library’s Playboy magazines and books (and those...
City News
Sun columnist calls city hall deputants “whiners,” then creates silly nicknames for council’s left
Sue-Ann Levy broke out a remarkably uncreative list of nicknames for her favourite lefty councillors in the Toronto Sun today...
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Sole-sourced contracts uncovered behind that Ford Ferris wheel
A report by Patrick White of the Globe and Mail has revealed that the city-owned Toronto Port Lands Company spent over $50,000 on...
City News
School board joins the fight against Rob Ford’s so-called “war on children”
A new front has opened in the resistance against Rob Ford’ s new budget—the TDSB is planning to publicize the impact of the...
City News
Rob Ford’s old website is hacked—but sadly, not by the Toronto Star
When the mayor’s registration of RobFord.ca expired earlier this year, an opportunistic prankster seized the...
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Rob Ford looks to contract out more city jobs; Doug Holyday finds out from the newspaper
Mayor Rob Ford is continuing his quest to build a city where the private sector cleans your streets, cuts your grass and...
City News
Ryerson journalism professor to the Star: Fight the power (quietly)
The long-running spat between Mayor Rob Ford and the Toronto Star ramped up last week: first the Star filed a complaint with the...
City News
Quoted: Mike Layton might have a freak-out
That’s Councillor Mike Layton , speaking yesterday about the proposed 2012 budget and the possible closure of Bellwoods House, a...
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We’re guessing closing a shelter (or three) for abused and homeless women (probably) won’t help Rob Ford pass his budget
For Mayor Rob Ford , a necessary part of passing the 2012 budget will be maintaining at least some level of public support and, by...
City News
Passive-aggressive posturing between the city and the cops over the 2012 budget continues
City hall is attempting to rein in the police force’s budget again. This time, Rob Ford ally Peter Milczyn tabled a motion...
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Rob Ford could go to court over campaign finances—but likely won’t have to take the stand
Rob Ford is hoping an Ontario court will disregard a compliance audit committee’s findings and instead hold a trial to determine...
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Rob Ford spoils hundreds of city workers’ holidays with plans for massive layoffs
Mayor Rob Ford’ s casual disdain for city workers is no secret—in September he referred to them collectively as...
City News
The Toronto Star versus Rob Ford: the paper returns fire with a call to the commish
The Toronto Star is going to the city’s integrity commissioner to settle its long-standing grudge match with Mayor Rob...
City News
Rob Ford’s finance figures continue to look rather arbitrary—still, he won’t give up his apocalyptic budget rhetoric
The National Post referred to the most significant cuts in the proposed 2012 budget as “highlights,” which we find slightly...
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Rob Ford’s city budget includes a 2.5 per cent tax increase—but that’s really not a big surprise
Yesterday, the city began the lengthy and rather unpleasant process of pushing next year’s budget through the budget committee...
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Rob Ford’s press secretary, Adrienne Batra, joins (and towers over) the Sun
Readers who alighted on the Toronto Sun website during their lunch break today were greeted with the unexpected yet benevolent...
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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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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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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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