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Rob Ford
City News
With big-time budget problems, Toronto can’t afford another big-time tax giveaway (imagine that)
In his mayoral campaign, Rob Ford promised that he would scrap both the vehicle registration tax and the land transfer tax , those...
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City News
Doug Ford wants charity events off city streets and, well, put somewhere else
In the final months leading up to the election, Rob Ford said he’d prefer to move marathons off city streets —apparently, the...
Real Estate News
Waterfront T.O. tizzy turns out to be nothing more than a typo
Sometimes even the backing of governments that actually have power in Canada (read: not Toronto) isn’t enough to keep a project...
Real Estate News
Dundas West neon bike the latest casualty in Ford’s war on public art
Last week, Rob Ford ’s clean-walls crusade erased a mural the city paid a local artist to paint. Then, a couple days later, news...
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City News
Doug Holyday wants to fight panhandling—also, party—like it’s 1999
Reviving measures from the Mel Lastman era probably isn’t a good idea on principle. But apparently at least one member of the...
Real Estate News
Ford’s clean-walls crusade erases a mural the city paid an artist $2,000 to paint
It seems the first friendly fire casualty has fallen in Rob Ford’s war on graffiti . The mayor’s Clean Toronto Together...
City News
At the CFL’s 100th birthday bash, the Brothers Ford crash the party and talk NFL again
There’s an old rule about weddings: nobody is allowed to look better than the bride. We couldn’t help but think about that...
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City News
Ford flip-flop follies: the mayor files appeal to halt campaign finances audit
As events unfold, the ongoing story of Mayor Rob Ford ’s election finance audit keeps getting more and...
City News
Ford’s hand-picked Sheppard Subway quarterback starts calling his own shots
Gordon Chong , now the chair of Toronto Transit Infrastructure Ltd ., caused a bit of a stir over the weekend by telling the...
City News
Mike Layton promises to start his own cycling committee—sadly, tree house not included
Rob Ford may be trying to kill off most of the advisory committees and task forces at city hall , but some more committee-friendly...
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City News
Toronto leads the country in bike-on-car collisions—wait, really?
The city recently released a report about last year’s data on cyclist collisions with cars and pedestrians, and the statistics...
City News
Ford finally takes yes for an answer in Pride Toronto funding controversy
Well, this proved to be a pleasant surprise at council yesterday: instead of insisting on new funding conditions for Pride Toronto...
City News
David Miller makes a doc for the CBC, tries to burnish his rep by appealing to T.O.’s New York envy
Since his election last October, Rob Ford has been waging a war against pretty much every part of David Miller ’s...
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City News
Mammoliti and Co. refuse to take yes for an answer in Pride Toronto funding debate
Later this afternoon, Rob Ford ’s executive committee—a panel made up of the mayor’s closest allies on council—will...
City News
The Jarvis bike lane brouhaha was such fractious fun last summer that city hall is bringing it back
Last year’s mayoral election was chock full of wacky issues—the 48-hour scandal over whether Rob Ford likes immigrants or not...
City News
Cabinet shuffle: Toronto gets a seat in Harper’s new government—and it’s not even a token
Good news, Toronto: Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his new cabinet this morning and, for the first time since 2006, the...
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City News
Council votes to start the trash privatization process—but is the mayor already losing his magic touch?
Yesterday’s council debate started, fittingly, with a little trash talk. Rob Ford unleashed his inner loudmouth (which is...
City News
Rob Ford’s financial woes march one step closer to serious trouble
For once it’s not the City of Toronto that’s in bookkeeping trouble. When news about Rob Ford’s campaign finance shenanigans...
City News
Get ready for something ugly, angry and mostly pointless—get ready for the Ward 9 by-election
The news broke Friday afternoon that City Clerk Ulli Watkiss had decided not to go forward with an appeal of the Ontario Superior...
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City News
Critics cry foul after Ford spams supporters
In anticipation of the cuts to be made by the Rob Ford administration, the city is undertaking a review of its services. Because...
City News
What the heck is happening on Finch?
Finch Avenue West is one of the lingering casualties of Rob Ford’s war on Transit City. One of the busiest bus routes in...
Culture
Jeff Melanson, Rob Ford’s special adviser on arts and culture, to leave Toronto for Banff
Jeff Melanson , we hardly knew ye. After six months on the job, Rob Ford ’s special adviser on arts and culture, who is also the...
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City News
Apparently, Queen’s Park doesn’t hold a grudge—Joe Pantalone lands a spot at Waterfront Toronto
Turns out it isn’t necessary to run for a seat under Dalton McGuinty ’ s banner to wash away the bad taste left over from the...
City News
Hashtag of the day—careful, it’s odorific
Some days Toronto stinks, and not just a little bit. People on their way to work this morning discovered a funk lingering over 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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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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
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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