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Rising rents on Queen East push out Red Rocket Coffee, which is moving to the Danforth instead
Leslieville’s Red Rocket Coffee has been forced to close up shop after its landlord doubled the rent to $49 per square...
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TTC finally seems to have done something right: new streetcars are pretty cool (but not quite pimptastic)
This past weekend the TTC put one of its long-awaited new streetcars on public display and, sadly, it looks nothing like the...
City News
Councillor Pam McConnell gets into TTC fare dispute, handles incident like an adult
The eagle-eyed Toronto Sun devoted a 300-word news story to the following sequence of events that occurred last weekend: (1) Pam...
City News
TTC approves service cuts (or how riding the rocket just got a little squishier)
News broke recently that, apparently, it’s possible for TTC vehicles to be more crowded than they already are at rush hour. The...
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Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
City News
New streetcars will put you face to face with those pesky public nail clippers—and generally be bigger and more comfortable
Transit etiquette, it seems, is at an all-time low considering that news of the TTC’s new fleet of streetcars comes with advice...
City News
Will Rob Ford reject another offer of free nurses from the province?
The ongoing spending cuts saga at city hall has had its fair share of strangeness— Margaret Atwood’ s brief spat with the...
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Cell service on the subway: good news may be coming in the fall
More than a year has passed since the TTC announced it was going to try to bring cellphone service to the subway. Back...
City News
Rob Ford asks Dalton McGuinty to pitch in for the “privately funded” Sheppard subway
Rob Ford met with Dalton McGuinty this morning at Queen’s Park , and the mayor followed the usual script regarding the city’s...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti wants panhandling banned from Toronto’s streets—but encouraged at Queen’s Park
Taking a break from sniffing out wayward communists on Facebook, Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti has joined forces with fellow...
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How that disposable pamphlet of infotainment that’s an inescapable part of our daily commute—a.k.a. Metro—is now the most-read paper in the country
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and Metro ’s Church Street newsroom is quiet and empty. By now, reporters at every other paper...
Real Estate News
Rejoice, Roncesvalles: the construction has finally come to a close
Up until this past weekend, the word “Roncesvalles” had basically been synonymous with “road construction,” or perhaps...
City News
Sheppard subway poised to eat the TTC chief’s job—and maybe Karen Stintz and streetcars, too
The big story this morning from the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail is that the mayor’s office—either Rob Ford himself or...
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Former TTC general manager David Gunn thinks Toronto’s transit plans are off the rails
David Gunn may have been invited to Toronto to share a few words of advice with TTC chair Karen Stintz and Mayor Rob Ford on...
City News
Rider, can you spare 15 cents? TTC looks to charge for text notifications
In a move consistent with a Rob Ford–led city hall that never misses an opportunity for cost savings—no matter how small—the...
City News
Eglinton residents worried that Transit City’s crosstown LRT won’t make the streets any prettier
The NDP announced yesterday morning that its election platform would include funds for the TTC (and other transit systems across...
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Ontario continues not to care about how Toronto looks
One of the sleepiest of sleepy controversies in this city surrounds (almost literally) the legislature at Queen’s Park . The...
City News
Presto cards are coming to the TTC (finally), pushing Toronto transit into the late 20th century
One of the stranger fights that plagued the last few months of David Miller ’s mayoral tenure was between Toronto and Queen’s...
City News
A young Toronto programmer designed a brilliant app using raw intel from the TTC. Now, if only city hall would give him more data
A few years ago , the TTC did something surprisingly cool. It met with its crankiest critics—Toronto’s transit-obsessed...
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TTC rolls out service cuts, to transit riders’ chagrin
The service cuts the TTC announced earlier this year came into effect across the city on Sunday, meaning many bus routes will be...
City News
Welcome to Toronto the Rude
We swear at each other from cars, bark at each other on the TTC and yell into our cellphones. How a supposedly livable city...
City News
How does Ford Nation stack up to other nations—Leafs, Colbert and Bieber?
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Toronto Hydro’s friendly reminder with your latest bill: how not to get electrocuted
Last week, two dogs were electrocuted on a sidewalk at the corner of Queen East and Parliament streets. A police officer who tried...
City News
Fare evaders cost TTC $22 million in 2010
Whether they want subways or streetcars, nearly all Torontonians seems to agree that the city needs more public transit. Just one...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
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Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling