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Sarah Thomson
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Anyone-but-Ford movement gathers steam: Joe Mihevc jumps off Pantalone’s ship and onto the deck of the S.S. Smitherman
As the early polls opened today, Sarah Thomson made good on her endorsement of George Smitherman and cast her early ballot for the...
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City News
Plague of election signs takes over Toronto
As of 12:01 this morning, candidates for municipal office can officially put their signs up all over Toronto (and keep them there...
City News
Toronto Star really, really, really wants you to know Thomson has left the mayoral race
That’s a picture of the Google News results for the Star ’s reporting on Sarah Thomson in the past 24 hours or so. Notice...
City News
And then there were four*: Sarah Thomson drops campaign bid, endorses Smitherman
It’s official: Sarah Thomson has announced that her cash-strapped, anemically polling campaign is calling it a race and...
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City News
Conrad Black takes time out of his busy schedule to endorse Sarah Thomson
There are some endorsements that a campaign could be excused for running away from. When a convicted felon, say, sends a campaign...
City News
Last night’s mayoral debate was one that voters should actually have watched
After approximately as many debates as there are grains of sand at Sugar Beach, Toronto voters could be forgiven for running as...
City News
Election slide show: what do the mayoral front-runners’ lawn signs say about them?
With September mostly done, the city is finally seeing the arrival of that most invasive of electoral species: the lawn sign. The...
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City News
Ford-pocalypse: poll shows Rob Ford destroying the competition—even downtown
After weeks of the election being dominated by campaign stunts and debates that the press barely pretend to pay attention to...
City News
It had to happen: Toronto mayoral candidates suffer from debate overload
Last night, the inevitable finally occurred. With approximately one squillion debates scheduled for this municipal election, some...
City News
Premier to Toronto’s mayoral hopefuls: Transit City is happening, so deal with it
Despite the magical mystery plans offered by the city's mayoral hopefuls, changes to any program as expensive as public transit...
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City News
The Rob Ford echo: mayoral front-runners suddenly sound a lot like Rob Ford
With Rob Ford solidly in the lead of the mayoral race, the other four candidates are all trying to figure out how to claw down his...
City News
Rob Ford unveils transit plan: remove streetcars, get cyclists off roads, expand subway only in burbs
Well the last horse has finally crossed the finish line: the Rob Ford campaign has put out a transit policy, allowing us to...
City News
Mayoral hopefuls praise Toronto film industry, The Simpsons
This morning—that is, the morning before TIFF—the four males of Toronto's five leading mayoral hopefuls gathered at the lot...
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City News
Rossi, Thomson crash Pantalone’s Labour Day party
In terms of formal endorsements, there's really only one dyed-in-the-wool left wing candidate in the mayor's race, and that's Joe...
City News
Labour Day is over. We now return to our regularly scheduled mayoral campaign, already in progress
The same phrase has been delivered by every candidate in the mayoral race so far (especially those not in first place): “the...
City News
Latest mayoral debate features duelling Roccos, melanin and group shouting at Rob Ford
Last night's mayoral debate at St. Lawrence Hall featured the first new face since Rob Ford entered the race: candidate Rocco...
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Mammoliti will not be endorsing Sarah Thomson; Thomson seems OK with it
One of the great prerogatives of running for office and then quitting the race is that you get to shop your influence around and...
City News
Shocker! Jack Layton endorses Joe Pantalone
We don't imagine there were that many NDP voters in the city who were wondering which candidate, exactly, was the left-most choice...
City News
After initial forgetfulness, Rob Ford comes clean on the time he was caught with pot and refused to take a breathalyzer
Rob Ford has had what anyone would call a pretty bad week. After his performance at the debate on Tuesday night, Wednesday was...
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Immigration conflagration: we talk to the five front-runners about Rob Ford’s “enough’s enough” stand on newcomers
In case you missed it, at Tuesday night's CP24 mayoral debate, Rob Ford said: There's some argument about the numbers that Ford...
City News
Latest mayoral debate: Ford opposes immigration and giving credit to Suzan Hall, proposes scrapping the land transfer tax
With the mayoral election just over two months away, the front-running candidates are upping their game when it comes to the...
City News
Newspapers jump on sketchy mayoral race poll showing Rob Ford in the lead
It's been a while since a major voter intention poll was put out for Toronto's mayoral race—the last one, confirming that George...
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Latest chapter in mayoral debate wars: seniors attack!
The latest in the never-ending series of mayoral debates got surprisingly feisty: in a packed, sweltering auditorium at Ryerson...
City News
Question: does the mayor deserve a $16,000 raise? Answer: it’s an election year
Received wisdom dictates that it's never a good time for a politician to get a raise. For this reason, the city has tried to take...
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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
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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