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Things Margaret Atwood likes: libraries, book clubs, strong language; things Margaret Atwood does not like: Doug and Rob Ford
We’re guessing by now the Brothers Ford know exactly who Margaret Atwood is. After Doug Ford caused a bit of a brouhaha amongst...
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How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
City News
Is Rob Ford a self-loathing, Tea Party–parroting mayor?
Seriously, we’re not even kidding here. After reading a thought-provoking piece by Toronto Star urban affairs bureau chief David...
City News
Toronto’s marathon Executive Committee meeting wrapped up this morning—a glimpse at the next 38 months?
If the nearly 24-hour ordeal that was the latest Executive Committee meeting produced anything to cheer, it was probably the...
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Reaction Roundup: Is this the beginning of the end for Rob Ford?
This week wasn’t a good one for Mayor Rob Ford . Between his brother Doug insulting Margaret Atwood (and then having Chapters...
City News
Jeff Melanson, Ford’s culture guru, argues arts grants aren’t gravy
One of the more interesting stories of the Ford administration’s early days has been that of Jeff Melanson . Hired on as the...
City News
As the executive committee digs in for a marathon meeting, is the mayor even listening?
Today, and possibly for several days to come, Toronto’s executive committee—the one that will be recommending cuts to city...
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Rob Ford’s ex–campaign chief receives a little gravy from B.C.’s HST fight
Here’s an interesting story, reported by the Globe and Mail and flagged by the CBC’s Kady O’Malley . The government of...
City News
Dalton McGuinty tries another new election tactic: run against Rob Ford
Yesterday, we shook our heads at the provincial Liberals’ seemingly wrong-headed campaign strategy of attempting to win the...
City News
Rob Ford allegedly flips a mother and daughter the finger; the Star confirms that, yes, it is an allegation
Here’s one for the journalism classes in this city: a Facebook post alleges that, while driving in Toronto, a woman and her...
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Ford places hold on traffic light votes, proving again that yes, there really are political parties at city hall
The latest example of the increasingly partisan nature of city hall—literally, the division of city council into separate...
City News
Roberto Alomar entered the Hall of Fame with a Jays cap on his head—but when will another Toronto Blue Jay crack Cooperstown?
Last weekend Robbie Alomar became the first-ever player to enter the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as a Toronto Blue Jay...
City News
Jack Layton takes temporary leave as NDP leader. What’s next?
Yesterday Jack Layton announced that he was temporarily leaving his position as leader of the NDP to battle a new form of...
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Next up on Toronto’s budget chopping block: more than 1,000 police officers and staff
Here’s a clear case where Rob Ford ’s rhetoric meets fiscal reality: the Toronto police are telling any reporters who ask...
City News
Sheppard subway poised to eat the TTC chief’s job—and maybe Karen Stintz and streetcars, too
The big story this morning from the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail is that the mayor’s office—either Rob Ford himself or...
City News
Another Toronto Star columnist tries out the whole civic government thing
One more case like this and it’ll officially be a trend. First, Rosie DiManno took over the SIU’s investigation into the...
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The latest target in Giorgio Mammoliti’s sights? The city’s immigrant-settlement services
City News
The next act in the grand core service review theatre: don’t cut the gravy
Yesterday’s meeting of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee was the council’s first look at what to actually do with...
City News
Critics accuse Mayor Ford of getting all Shock Doctrine-y
The Toronto Star never quite comes out and says it, but the basic argument various critics of Rob Ford seem to be making is that...
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More core service reviews, more of the same message: the gravy is missing
Yet another core service review has come out today—this time relating to parks and the environment and leaked early to the...
City News
Provincial Liberals blame Rob Ford for GTA transit woes; we admire the province’s chutzpah
As they gear up for the October election, the provincial Liberals have devised a simple plan: reduce their vulnerability to...
City News
Jarvis and Scarborough bike lanes die following particularly childish council debate
Well, that’s that: just before taking their lunch break today, council voted to adopt Denzil Minnan-Wong ’s bike network...
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City to offer buyouts to staff—but the devil, as usual, is all in the details
News came out yesterday that to deal with Toronto’s yawning financial black hole, the city is considering offering staff a...
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Toronto’s first core service review is out; on the menu: cuts, cuts and more cuts
When he was running for office in 2010, Mayor Rob Ford repeatedly assured voters that he could deliver his budget promises to the...
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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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