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My Digital Sabbath: how one writer learned to stop checking Facebook and love life offline
I can’t say specifically which fabulous new technology made me decide I needed a break from all fabulous new technologies. For...
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Food & Drink
Mini Food Truck Eats today to feature El Gastrónomo Vagabundo and Francisco Alejandri of Agave y Aguacate
City News
NDP leader Jack Layton passes away at 61
We’re deeply saddened to learn that federal NDP leader Jack Layton lost his second battle with cancer this morning, according to...
City News
Can Dalton McGuinty’s bland-and-boring image withstand the increase in Internet attack campaigns?
Premier Dalton McGuinty has a personal image (as opposed to a political image) that’s about as likely to inflame passion as...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it okay to announce on Twitter that a friend came out of the closet?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m 30 years old, and I recently came out of the closet to a few friends and my parents. I was still...
City News
Things Margaret Atwood likes: libraries, book clubs, strong language; things Margaret Atwood does not like: Doug and Rob Ford
We’re guessing by now the Brothers Ford know exactly who Margaret Atwood is. After Doug Ford caused a bit of a brouhaha amongst...
City News
How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
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City News
Toronto councillor tweets about “hot chicks,” promptly embarrasses himself
Sure, our public servants are human beings, too—they have their foibles and they make mistakes. But the fun part about living in...
City News
New York takes cues from T.O. by using the Interwebs to retrieve stolen stuff
Ever since a Toronto woman arranged a sting to get her bike back in the summer of 2009—a feel-good story that made it all the...
City News
NHL fans break from playoffs to discuss gay marriage—because, apparently, it’s still 2006
Normally, “Canadian athlete supports existing Canadian law” wouldn’t be a big story—but the fact that New York Rangers...
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City News
City mayors call for gridlock to be on the federal agenda. Good luck with that
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has a problem: it's all about cities, but cities are off the electoral...
City News
Ford set to kill citizen committees, because he’s all about respect for taxpayers
The City of Toronto has a lot of committees, so it may be tempting to cheer when a small-government mayor like Rob Ford announces...
City News
Two Canadians still have a shot at #winning Charlie Sheen internship
Finding intern postings on-line is nothing new, but this particular opportunity certainly is: Charlie Sheen’s personal social...
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Ontario teachers told not to friend students on Facebook
We assumed it went without saying, but apparently it doesn't. The Ontario College of Teachers has put out an advisory on the...
City News
The Score plays Switzerland in the ongoing sports broadcasting war between TSN and Rogers
As TSN and Rogers Sportsnet continue to up the ante in their duel for Canadian sports media supremacy, The Score is taking a...
Food & Drink
Terroir 2011 roundup: we talk to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs at the foodie symposium
A couple weeks back, 400 members of the food and hospitality industry gathered at Hart House for Terroir V. The annual symposium...
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Social media for the media social club: the slightly bizarre, happy story of #goldsbiephone
Anyone who’s paid attention to Toronto politics on Twitter for more than five minutes knows Jonathan Goldsbie . He’s a...
Style
Parlez-moi de l’antisémitisme: John Galliano’s perfume pulled from Canadian shelves
Canadian model Jessica Stam is offering support to former Dior designer John Galliano , but Canadian department stores, not so...
City News
Whine and cheese: the Complaints Choir is coming to Toronto
The Complaints Choir does more than give us a forum for griping—it encourages love and understanding. Togetherness, 21st century...
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The prodigal son returns: three reasons Chris Bosh will get booed at the ACC tonight
Chris Bosh returns to Toronto tonight for the first time since he took his talents to Miami to create the Super Team with pals...
City News
He shoots, he tweets! A look at the four best Twitter users on the Toronto Maple Leafs
Is the newest Toronto Maple Leaf good at hockey? We’re not sure yet, but we do know this much: Joffrey Lupul is pretty damn good...
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Two retail bandwagons collide at Roots: social media saturation and the pop-up shop
Toronto is no stranger to pop-up shops, from the Drake BBQ to Frye’s boot stand at Ron White ’s to the A2Zane bag emporium on...
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Report: Tony Clement beats Stephen Harper on Twitter; most MPs are still pre-2002
How do modern politics and social media mix? Not well, it seems. A new report by digital public affairs strategist and...
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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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