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Can Rob Ford tell the difference between wasteful and regular-government-has-to-run-a-city spending?
The budget committee continued the city’s march toward reducing spending last week, approving a motion that will eliminate...
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Following a poorly planned attempt at buyouts, city decides to just lay off workers instead
City manager Joe Pennachetti confirmed the city will be laying workers off. The layoffs, of course, are part of mayor Rob Ford ’...
City News
Gallery: We picked eight notables who could make a difference this Movember
November has unofficially become Movember, which means that brothers, sons, fathers, husbands and lovers have taken to growing...
City News
Rob Ford won’t get an advance on surplus transit funds, but clings to his Sheppard subway fantasy anyway
Mayor Rob Ford ’s dreams of a privately financed Sheppard subway extension have been on life support for some time now, and news...
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Rob Ford plays the PR game in the early stages of labour negotiations with city unions
Sure, it’s still early in the game, but Rob Ford appears to be winning the public relations battle with the city’s...
City News
Quoted: Joe Mihevc is very, very sure the Sheppard subway is doomed
“All signs point to Sheppard being dead—D-E-A-D, dead—and I think the only thing that hasn’t happened is the news becoming...
City News
Dalton “Boring Machine” McGuinty and Rob Ford go on a field trip to see an enormous hole
Yesterday, frenemies Dalton McGuinty and Rob Ford toured the site where crews are beginning to dig the tunnel for the Eglinton...
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Apparently, senior citizens (with chronic pain) are lying on beds made of gravy
Having slashed councillor expense budgets, city hall is looking for new ways to save money. One idea is to eliminate the Toronto...
City News
The Toronto Sun joins Rob Ford in creating a new slow-roasted redefinition of the word gravy
There was a time when the word “gravy” referred to swollen expense budgets and perks handed out to politicians that were...
City News
Quoted: Rob Ford says it’s about time the city asked Occupy Toronto to “move on”
“They have had a peaceful protest. I think it is time that we ask them to move on.” That was Mayor Rob Ford , speaking to...
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City document outlines stringent demands to unions, work stoppage pretty much inevitable
The Globe and Mail is reporting that the city’s list of demands to unionized workers “amounts to a fundamental overhaul of the...
City News
Rob Ford says it’s about time Occupy Toronto protesters moved on—but can the city actually evict them?
Mayor Rob Ford’ s mysterious plan regarding the Occupy Toronto protesters is taking a while to hatch, but we do have some hints...
City News
Doug Holyday basically says firefighting is safe and easy; meanwhile, Nick Kouvalis is up to his old tricks
We already knew that the man behind Rob Ford’ s gravy train campaign is now working for the opposite side by running a PR...
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The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
City News
Apparently, the Sheppard subway extension is now going to open one station at a time
Turns out financing a subway extension is tough. Like, really, really tough. The Toronto Star reports that Gordon Chong, who Rob...
Real Estate News
Yurt of the Week: a photographic tour of an Occupy Toronto yurt
Toronto’s burgeoning anti-capitalist occupation has a new, albeit unlikely, icon—the humble yurt. A group of labour...
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Would Coach Rob Ford make a different decision on daycare than Mayor Rob Ford?
Yesterday, we wondered if Mayor Rob Ford’ s success as a football coach and philanthropist in an underprivileged part of the...
City News
VIDEO: “I Heart Rob Ford,” Tasha James and Fast Ford Nation Dancers’ bizarre tribute to the mayor
We’re not sure what this video is trying to say about Rob Ford. Man may never know. But we imagine this is what the mayor sees...
City News
Cost of digging a tunnel for the Eglinton crosstown could pose a problem for Rob Ford’s transit plan
From annals of things that shouldn’t be surprising but somehow are at city hall: digging a tunnel for the Eglinton LRT—one...
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If only Rob Ford, Mayor, could be as good as his job as Rob Ford, Football Coach
Mayor Rob Ford loves the gridiron, where he can steamroll his opponents without pesky nuisances like voting and committee...
City News
Daycare: another reason that Rob Ford’s adversarial relationship with the premier is bad news
More bad news for anyone relying on daycare, courtesy of the Toronto Star: provincial cash might be the only thing that could...
City News
How private garbage contractors turned state-of-the-art showers into gravy
It’s starting to look like the world of privatized garbage collection isn’t as gravy-free as the mayor and his friends would...
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Norm Kelly having trouble grappling with Occupy Toronto
With the protesters camped out in St. James Park bracing for winter—and doing a pretty good job of it— Rob Ford said earlier...
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Does a new naming rights policy mean Toronto has a revenue problem after all?
Mayor Rob Ford and his pals on the executive committee recently approved a policy for naming rights in the city, one that will...
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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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