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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...
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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?
City News
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...
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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...
City News
New streetcar yard coming to Ashbridges Bay, whether the local councillor likes it or not
As part of the modernization of the streetcar fleet, the TTC decided that it needed a new storage and maintenance shed down at...
City News
New poll shows Torontonians’ hate of LRTs has been greatly exaggerated
Since election day, the debate over transit in Toronto has been reduced to a logical fallacy: people voted for Rob Ford . Ford...
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Cars likely to win yet another battle as Adam Giambrone’s parking legacy on Dundas West comes almost completely undone
One of the last things Adam Giambrone did before events transpired to take him out of the race for mayor was remove parking spaces...
City News
Our Fare Lady: Q&A with Karen Stinz, the newly appointed TTC chair
Complaints about TTC customer service, possible strikes, delays—Stintz says she’s ready to take it all on You’re one of few...
City News
Oshawa mayor wanted Toronto’s Transit City money to fund expansion of the 407
The city of Oshawa, fresh from electing a man to city council without knowing he couldn’t take the job, is now in an uproar over...
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Culture
Wonder no more: Queen West becomes 8-bit video game on Youtube
Having grown up with the sore thumbs that only the original Nintendo controllers could give, we always wondered what Queen West...
City News
Province and TTC might save face, Eglinton LRT
Stories of the death of Transit City have been greatly exaggerated, according to today’s papers. The Star tells us that it looks...
City News
Five things we learned from Rob Ford’s year-end interview with the Globe
The mayor’s first big meeting with city council was a marathon affair in which he got everything he wanted . Rob Ford ’s plan...
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Toronto’s war on the streetcar claims another victim: the sky
With Rob Ford ’s mayoral victory, it’s become clear that Toronto can have mass transit only so long as it meets two important...
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Rob Ford meets with the anti-Ford, aka Dalton McGuinty
Rob Ford and Dalton McGuinty are about as different politicians are one could find working within a single kilometre of each...
City News
Despite what Rob Ford says, light rail is best for Toronto: report
Turns out that David Miller ’s baby may not be as ugly as some were beginning to think . A new report says that Transit City is...
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On the chopping block: we put odds on which city-funded projects will survive Ford’s first term
One thing we know about Rob Ford is that he hates it when the city—pardon us, his city—spends money on things that the private...
City News
The streetcars live! Day two of Rob Ford’s Toronto and he’s already changing his campaign promises
A lot of odd things get said in the heat of a campaign, like “ let’s dig a tunnel to the Gardiner ” or “ this is how to...
City News
Ford-pocalypse: poll shows Rob Ford destroying the competition—even downtown
After weeks of the election being dominated by campaign stunts and debates that the press barely pretend to pay attention to...
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Rob Ford unveils transit plan: remove streetcars, get cyclists off roads, expand subway only in burbs
Well the last horse has finally crossed the finish line: the Rob Ford campaign has put out a transit policy, allowing us to...
City News
TTC customer service report is less absurd than we’d hoped, but it’s still pretty funny
After months of investigation and deliberation, the TTC’s Customer Service Advisory Panel (which sounds funnier when we call it...
City News
Nap rooms, sobriety and four other things we hope to see in today’s TTC report
The long-awaited report on customer service on the TTC is coming out today—any minute now, really. Authored by a panel of...
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Seven Long Years: How will David Miller be remembered?
As a kvetchy, largely ineffective do-gooder ultimately undone by the unionists who helped elect him Unless Joe Pantalone, the...
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Wynne tells Giambrone that when it comes to Presto cards, it’s her way or the highway
Here’s another thing Toronto’s transit system needed: having pioneered new ways to argue over who’s paying for what, the...
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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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