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Battleground Toronto: leaked memo shows that Conservatives really, really, really want “very ethnic” Toronto votes
The latest scandal in Ottawa is that immigration minister Jason Kenney , who’s been charged with building the Conservative brand...
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City News
Delicate flowers at TCHC board resign, blame the mayor
And now, the latest in the “ Rob Ford gets what he wants” series. After the mayor demanded the resignation of the civilian...
City News
Blonde Ambition: Charlotte Sullivan courts controversy as Marilyn Monroe in The Kennedys
Almost 50 years after JFK’s assassination, scandal still dogs the Kennedys. A new eight-hour miniseries about the...
City News
Gravy found! Some of the juiciest bits of fat in the TCHC audit will get in the way of the real scandal
By now the whole city knows the story of the city’s auditor general’s report [PDF] on the Toronto Community Housing...
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Panel recommends “considerable downsizing” to Pride festival, along with new ways Pride Toronto can avoid another lousy year
Last year, it’s safe to say, will not go down in the history books as Pride Toronto’s greatest. There was the Queers Against...
Culture
Kennedys mini-series finds a home on ReelzChannel
The saga of The Kennedys is starting to feel like history repeating itself. Just as the 2003 series The Reagans was dropped from...
City News
Dog’s best friend: the story behind the Toronto Humane Society’s mutiny, raid and shutdown
Tim Trow had one sacred rule for the Toronto Humane Society: save every pet. But the shelter grew overcrowded and chaotic, the...
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Culture
Pillars of the Earth recap: dirty, sexy clergy, episode 3
Things really started to steam up on this week’s Pillars of the Earth (which we found particularly funny, given that Skins was...
Culture
Canadian director shocked at Kennedys canning
Jon Cassar, the Canadian who directed the controversial made-in-Toronto miniseries The Kennedys, has weighed in on the History...
City News
2010 Lexicon: 11 new words that entered our vocabulary this past year
1. true belieber \troo bih-leeb-er\ n. (2010): Self-designative term adopted by mega-fans of Canadian entertainer Justin...
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Culture
Toronto Sun and PMO renew their fury over SummerWorks’ terrorism-themed play
Surprise, surprise: there’s drama brewing in the Toronto theatre community. The commotion involves a stage festival, a...
City News
SIU charges Toronto officer in Adam Nobody beating, as poll shows confidence in police slipping
Breaking news today as the SIU—the body looking into police behaviour during the G20—announces it has finally, after the...
City News
Tradesies: Shania Twain to marry the ex-husband of the woman who broke up her first marriage
CanCon country rocker Shania Twain is getting married again, and this time it’s to Swiss rich guy Frederic Thiebaud . Two years...
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Allegations of vote fixing make Mississauga politics momentarily interesting
Shortly after election day, a few Mississauga councillors got a letter from a person known only as “Fred” that claimed the...
City News
Toronto public school board catches $88,500 fraud without a huge scandal
A we-assume-formerly respected principal, teacher and baseball coach from Martingrove Collegiate in Etobicoke has been charged...
City News
Calgary’s new mayor takes a page out of the Rob Ford playbook
There’s a scandal afoot in the city of Calgary involving some misused funds at the city-owned energy utility, Enmax. Seems as...
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Social media in Toronto’s election: a sampling of blunders
One of the much talked-about aspects of Calgary’s recent election has been how Naheed Nenshi successfully transformed social...
City News
Rob Ford plagued by drive-by smears again
It’s hard out here for a front-runner: Rob Ford , having swatted down anonymous Web ads two weeks ago that referred to him as...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Kevin Spacey, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kelly Preston, Jon Lovitz at the premiere of Casino Jack
Casino Jack, based on the true events surrounding real-life D.C. lobbyist “Casino” Jack Abramoff, has all the sexy keywords of...
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Food & Drink
Five things we learned about Tim Hortons from the recent Maclean’s exposé
The paradox represented by Tim Hortons ' "always fresh" frozen doughnuts got a thorough examination last week in a long Maclean's...
City News
First minority governments, now Mean Girls-style back-stabbing: British politics continues to steal from Canada
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has a biography coming out this week, and in it he compares his poisonous relationship...
Culture
New biography reveals Peter Gzowski’s secret love child, alcoholism struggles
According to R.B. Fleming' s new tell-all Peter Gzowski biography, the late radio broadcaster had many skeletons in the...
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Bubbes and zaydes treated to spicier-than-normal mayoral election debate
With the news out yesterday about Rob Ford 's idea of a romantic weekend away , it was a sure bet that there would be fireworks...
City News
Reaction roundup: the best things said about Rob Ford’s worst week
If a mayoral candidate named Rob Ford has a Wednesday filled with such questions as “Is Rob Ford prejudiced?” and “How...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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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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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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