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Port Lands development may be on the fast track (but no word if that track is a monorail)
One product of Doug Ford ’s failed attempt to turn the Port Lands into a waterfront amusement park is a commitment to expediting...
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With the gravy train essentially out of steam (and gravy), the new budget marks Rob Ford’s toughest political test to date
Today city manager Joe Pennachetti unveils the 2012 budget, which among other things entails the first projected spending decrease...
City News
Instead of fixing 311, Rob Ford’s allies blame underperforming city workers
Mayor Rob Ford ’ s allies didn’t take long to start using city hall’s 311 phone service as a political tool. The National...
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...
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City News
Did Rob Ford run for mayor on a left-wing campaign promise?
Here’s a real knee-slapper: Toronto activist Dave Meslin says Rob Ford ran for mayor on a left-wing political platform. Meslin...
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
Dear senior citizens and charities, please dispose of your own garbage. Love, Rob Ford
Apparently, Rob Ford’ s executive committee supports a move that would see churches, service agencies, retirement homes and...
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City News
Library board rejects controversial cuts, could still be pushed around by city council
The Toronto library board may still have to cut its budget, but it won’t rely on Sunday branch closures or reduced operating...
City News
Unions continue to make it easy for Rob Ford to win the PR war
Sid Ryan, the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, is accusing Mayor Rob Ford of seeking potential scab workers in the...
City News
Judge upholds city’s eviction order for Occupy Toronto; Doug Ford muses about the end of “Woodstock Toronto”
If last week’s eviction notice was the beginning of the end for Occupy Toronto’s scrappy camp in St. James Park, today’s...
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City News
Toronto Taxpayers Coalition releases report cards for city council (and no, Rob Ford didn’t receive an A)
The Toronto Taxpayers Coalition released its report cards for city council—yes, it actually does that — and, somewhat...
City News
Rob Ford could deliver on a campaign promise by fixing Toronto’s broken 311 service
Apparently, Toronto’s 311 service is in a spot of trouble. Naturally, having staff on call to help Torontonians deal with broken...
City News
Rob Ford’s transit strategy is costing, not saving, the city a lot of money
Seizing on the opportunity to run a photo of Rob Ford in a goofy hard hat, the Globe and Mail takes the mayor to task for his...
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City News
A new theatre opens in the war on the car
Surprisingly, the latest front in the war on the car looks like the site of the Eglinton LRT. The Globe and Mail reports that...
City News
Occupy Toronto supporter calls the mayor’s office, records it for all to hear
Jason Chesworth recently phoned Rob Ford’ s office to voice his support for Occupy Toronto, and he recorded the entire thing. In...
City News
The Q&A: Nick Kouvalis is cashing in on his newfound cachet right, left and centre
A chat with the political strategist everyone wants in their corner In a year, you’ve gone from mastermind of Rob Ford’s...
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Perpetual runner-up Toronto goes for gold with a possible bid for the 2024 Olympics
The Globe and Mail reports that wheels are in motion—though they’re turning very slowly at this point—for a 2024 Summer...
City News
Occupy Toronto gets crushed by the man, then fights the power and actually wins (at least, momentarily)
The campout will continue. After the city served Occupy Toronto with an eviction notice yesterday morning, it looked like the...
Food & Drink
Is Rob Ford on the (hot) sauce? One crafty entrepreneur thinks so
Our mayor’s sometimes-fiery antics have earned him immortality in culinary form: bottles of Rob Ford hot sauce were spotted at...
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City News
Ford fact check: apparently, city staffers not as gravy-drenched as once thought
Remember back in 2010 when then–mayoral candidate Rob Ford said the city could balance its books without layoffs? How times have...
City News
Rob Ford chosen to cameo in The Nutcracker ballet (cue last-minute cottage vacation)
Every year the National Ballet of Canada works a celebrity cameo into its performance of The Nutcracker, and this Christmas, Rob...
City News
Occupy Wall Street is given the boot; Rob Ford follows suit by serving Occupy Toronto an eviction notice
The city said it would make its move on Occupy Toronto sometime this week, and Rob Ford offered yesterday that the protesters at...
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Apparently, funding transit is more complicated than just asking people to open their wallets
The Toronto Star’ s Royson James appears to have pinpointed Torontonians’ reluctance to fork over much-needed cash for...
City News
Rob Ford threatens to remove Occupy Toronto; Anonymous threatens to remove Ford from the Internet
Last week Rob Ford proclaimed that it’s time for the Occupy Toronto protesters to leave St. James Park. The announcement...
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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
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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