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Wave of boredom hits downtown Toronto as it waits for G20 chaos
Compared to the ruckus caused by World Cup revellers on College Street this morning, the area around the G20 security zone was...
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Wait times massive at Pearson Airport’s Toast! Café
Passengers travelling to Lester B. Pearson International Airport were told to expect "significant delays" today due to the arrival...
City News
Crazy new rules give G20 cops superpowers, but only until Sunday
The Ontario government quietly but dramatically expanded the powers available to police during the G20 summit in Toronto. New...
City News
Workers at French-owned hotel strike just before French G20 delegates arrive
If anyone knows a Toronto hotel with any rooms left, the French G20 posse could use your help. Workers at the downtown...
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Embarrassment of glitches: undercover RCMP officer planted at student paper can’t fool Ryerson students
Fresh off their coup of exposing explosive stores in Forest Hill and finding drugs in proximity to hippies , the G20 security...
City News
Doth protest too much? Rating the threat levels of anarchists, anti-capitalists and other G20 haters
The big dailies are issuing their warnings about the onslaught of G20 protesters, many of whom are already converging on our...
City News
Supreme Court slightly restricts scope of future government cover-ups
Reporters across the land are filled with ambiguous cheer as the Supreme Court of Canada has modestly, incrementally, fractionally...
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Allegedly stolen police uniforms: can the cops trust their dry cleaner?
This is totally reassuring: 680 News reported last night that more than a dozen police uniforms were stolen from the...
City News
G20’s latest Toronto victims: trees
Security mania took another turn in Toronto yesterday as city workers removed trees from the security core around the Metro...
City News
Snarl city: G8/G20 “traffic management” announced
Ontario police have just announced some of the traffic restrictions for the G20; as predicted, they add up to grim waits for those...
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Let them eat lake: as Toronto shuts down for the G20, feds spend millions on a fake Muskoka landscape
The rules in Toronto for the G20 summit are becoming clear as we get closer to showtime: first, no showtimes. Mirvish theatres...
City News
Leaked documents on G8/G20 funding allotments make us feel sorry for Sheila Fraser
The National Post has obtained two documents that outline how the mind-blowing amount of money allotted for G8/G20 security is...
City News
Wounded G20 protestors to be treated in plumbing-free shack
The $1 billion-plus allotted for G20/G8 security is apparently too scant to provide state-of-the-art first aid for detained G20...
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Reaction roundup: leaders respond to the ballooning G8/G20 security budget
Just days after the Harper government announced that it’s preparing to spend up to $930 million on security for the G8 and G20...
City News
Official G20 security zone announced
Now that Toronto officials have unveiled downtown’s restricted areas for the impending G20 summit, there's a clearer picture of...
City News
At big-city mayors’ conference, McCallion comes out swinging (and Miller comes out zinging)
The mayors of Canada's 22 largest cities, just ahead of an annual meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, gathered...
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The cops’ new “communication tool” to deafen G20 protestors
The G20 security overlords, concerned that protestors at the summit will make too much noise—megaphones, rhyming chants, Rage...
Real Estate News
City to Paul Bronfman: tear down this fence
Being robbed is never a happy experience, and people understandably react to a violation by taking measures to improve their...
City News
$833-million security bill for G20 and G8 called “insane”
The federal government had a tinge of Dr. Evil about it yesterday when it disclosed combined security costs for the upcoming G8...
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G20’s Toronto takeover: a roundup of snarls, snags, closures and general headaches
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the perimeter fences that will cordon off vast swaths of downtown for the G20 (June 25 to...
City News
The best of Rebel Mayor: the funniest quips from city hall’s mystery tweeter, who was unmasked (sort of) this week
The Rebel Mayor situation, the municipal election's only fun gossip story so far, may have ended before it was spoken of outside...
City News
Anarchists heading to Toronto’s G20 summit to “cause shit,” “party”
Anarchists are coming to Toronto during the G20. The Southern Ontario Anarchist Resistance (SOAR) sent out its rallying call last...
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MPs take time out of busy insult schedule to remind us how awesome they are
It was a fun constitutional mini-crisis while it lasted. After a late-game extension to work out a deal all sides could agree...
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G20 organizers: the only childish games during the summit will be at the convention centre
As the G20 summit looms, it’s looking more and more like Toronto FC will be the only thing in the city not brought to a complete...
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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
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
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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
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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
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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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