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Toronto FC’s commercial for Jermain Defoe is strangely hilarious
Toronto FC ’s recent acquisition of U.K. soccer star Jermain Defoe (for which we apparently have Drake to thank) may not help...
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City News
U.K. soccer star Jermain Defoe is joining Toronto FC because Drake told him to
Here's something to add to Drake 's growing list of accomplishments, along with international stardom and mastery of footwear...
City News
Reason to Love Toronto: because MLSE launched a soccer academy
Why can’t a city full of diehard soccer fans turn out more world-class players? One reason is that until recently our best young...
City News
Toronto FC players go to Houston, get drunk and get arrested
It’s tough being a Toronto FC fan these days. Not only is the team holding down the last-place spot in MLS, with a single win in...
City News
An afternoon shooting in Little Italy fuels the gun control debate
Another shooting in a crowded public place has rattled downtown residents—and ensured that the debate over gun control in...
City News
Find out how far you’ll have to schlep to watch the Pan Am Games in Toronto
Since council freaked out over the rising price tag of the 2015 Pan Am Games—because mega sporting events usually come in under...
Style
David Beckham is coming to town to play soccer, but what will he wear?
It’s a fairly mild winter Wednesday, so for us to imagine David Beckham showing up to his match against Toronto FC this evening...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can we reclaim our soccer pitch without looking like jerks?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I play a casual game of pickup soccer with a bunch of other late-30s dads on weekends at Bickford Park. For...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: is there any way to save face after acting a drunken fool in front of my boss?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My company has season’s tickets for Toronto FC. A few clients cancelled, so I scored some seats for my...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Deli Duel 2, Toronto Sketch Com-ageddon and six other events on our to-do list
1. ST. LAWRENCE MARKET STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL It’s berry season in Ontario, and St. Lawrence Market is celebrating with its annual...
City News
TFC season opens with one rare thing (excitement) and one typical thing (a loss)
Toronto Football Club ’s 4-2 defeat against the expansion Vancouver Whitecaps opened the regular season on Saturday at Empire...
City News
Vancouver Whitecaps new marketing strategy shows TFC what screw-ups really look like
By all accounts, Toronto FC has had a rough off-season. Before the Major League Soccer regular season has even kicked off, the...
City News
MLSE may or may not be for sale. Rogers may or may not want to buy them
Confusion reigns supreme in the brouhaha that recently erupted over news that the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) is putting...
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City News
Toronto FC MVP set to return to the club—but only if he says he’s sorry
Things are almost back to normal at Toronto FC . Word is that the ongoing contract drama that has beset the beleaguered Major...
City News
The List: 10 things John Bitove can’t live without
John Bitove, the sports nut and satellite radio mega-mogul, is merging Sirius Canada and XM Canada. Here, 10 things he can’t...
City News
TSN lands rights to Toronto FC, staking its claim in sports broadcast wars
TSN won another battle in the ongoing war for sports coverage supremacy in this country, once again snatching a coveted property...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: a new AGO exhibit, the Santa Claus parade and seven other things on our to-do list
1. SANTA CLAUS PARADE Before hunkering down on a camping chair, blanket or curb to eagerly await the man in red this Sunday, get...
Culture
Steve Nash wants to make Pelé documentary
Fresh off the Canuck pomp and circumstance surrounding his Terry Fox documentary Into the Wind , Steve Nash is game for another...
Style
Louis Vuitton wins World Cup of product placement
Perhaps the real winner of yesterday’s final World Cup game wasn't Spain at all—it was Louis Vuitton. In one of the most...
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City News
The List: Rocco Rossi
Ten things the Liberal strategist and mayoral candidate can’t live without 1. My favourite book I first read Man’s Search for...
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...
Culture
Q&A: Talking World Cup with Brendan Canning
Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning is also a footie fanatic. With the World Cup just underway and Canning’s squad playing...
City News
Footie Fanatic: John Doyle reveals that soccer, not the tube, is his one true love
In his new book, John Doyle, the Globe’ s sardonic TV critic, reveals that soccer, not the tube, is his one true love Soccer is...
City News
Five suggestions for where G20 visitors should watch World Cup games
As the list of logistical concerns surrounding the G20 continues to grow, the Summit Management Office is now trying to figure out...
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Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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
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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