Real Estate News
Food & Drink
City News
Deep Dives
Culture
Style
Neighbourhoods
Newsletters
Membership
Subscribe
Sign in
strike
City News
“Some full-timers are using food banks”: A Metro employee breaks down why GTA grocery workers are prepared to strike
After 25 years as a produce clerk, Tammy Laporte’s wages have fallen woefully behind the rate of inflation. Now, she can’t afford to shop at her own workplace
Advertisement
Life
What people were saying about the LCBO strike that wasn’t
Some ephemera from the short-lived LCBO panic of '17
Life
Toronto Zoo workers are on strike, and their strategy includes torturing management with bad animal puns
All the worst zoo-related groaners
City News
The 10 biggest moments in Toronto transportation in the last 50 years
The trains, roads, strikes and spats that mattered most
Advertisement
City News
Jan Wong: The province’s shrewd but savage strategy to stick it to Ontario’s teachers
The school year is coming to a close, and not a moment too soon. It’s been an ugly one. Queen’s Park forced new labour...
City News
Air Canada pilots call in sick, Air Canada passengers just sickened
Since this morning, Air Canada has been dealing with a pilot “sick-in,” which stands to be about as unpleasant as it...
City News
Strike watch is officially over: part-time recreation workers take Rob Ford’s deal
Just as mayor and labour oracle Rob Ford predicted, the 8,600 part-time city workers who run Toronto’s recreation programs have...
Advertisement
City News
Does Rob Ford have some secret ability to charm unions?
Rob Ford’s administration has avoided any drawn-out work stoppages, which is kind of a shocker for a mayor obsessed with...
City News
Dig out that library card because the strike could be over by tonight
Although we won’t have any details until it’s ratified, striking library workers have reached a tentative deal with the city...
City News
Some of Toronto’s inside workers accepted the city’s offer, making Doug Holyday sort of right
Doug Holyday was half-right (or half-wrong, we guess)—the deputy mayor had predicted that Toronto’s inside workers would...
Advertisement
City News
Margaret Atwood expresses support for librarians on strike (no reponse yet from Doug Ford)
By now, it’s clear that the ongoing library strike won’t spark another spirited bout between literary critic Doug Ford and...
City News
Inside workers will hold a deal-or-no-deal vote on Wednesday (without Howie Mandel, sadly)
Doug Holyday, the mayor’s point man in the negotiations with CUPE Local 79, is proclaiming victory, telling reporters that the...
City News
How a strike by Toronto’s inside workers would make your life suck
Going on strike seems to be the thing to do these days, and we’re wondering if the city’s inside workers will be next to get...
Advertisement
City News
Air Canada workers stage short-lived wildcat strike and ruin at least one childhood
Having apparently decided Toronto’s librarians look pretty cool walking the picket lines, Air Canada workers launched a wildcat...
City News
Inside workers union says it won’t strike—but if it does, it’s the city’s fault
Showing some PR smarts, CUPE Local 79 is proclaiming that its 23,000 members won’t strike this weekend —unless the city makes...
City News
Does Rob Ford have secret plans to fire half of Toronto’s librarians? Probably not
Librarians may be bad at chanting, but they’re pretty good with alarmist rhetoric, according to the Globe and Mail’ s Marcus...
Advertisement
City News
Fittingly, the first strike of Rob Ford’s administration affects libraries
Citing threats to job security (and perhaps still stinging from that whole Tim Hortons thing), 2,300 library workers have walked...
City News
St. Lawrence Centre workers locked out by management; is this a new era in Toronto labour relations?
We hate to break this news to our gentle readers, but apparently Rob Ford doesn't like unions. He really, really doesn't like...
Culture
Yorkville 1: King West 0. Hotel workers picket outside Hyatt
A day after hotel workers handed out pamphlets outside the King Street Hyatt Regency —the headquarters of all TIFF...
Advertisement
Culture
Martin Sheen joins Royal York Hotel picket line for 20 minutes
His son may have been spotted at the Drake's rooftop patio, but Martin Sheen seems to prefer a more street-level approach to...
City News
Toronto hating gets an embossed stamp: U.S. State Department says stay away during the G20
Torontonians woke up this morning to find that the U.S. State Department had put our fair city on the same list as Jamaica and...
City News
Metro newspaper threatens to take away sudoku
One of the city’s daily freebie papers has two more days to negotiate a new contract with its 70-person staff, or else employees...
Advertisement
Food & Drink
Toronto the Guu’d: Vancouver’s popular izakaya chain lands on Church Street in December
"Patience is a virtue" is an axiom that Toronto fans of izakaya have been repeating to themselves since we first reported that Guu...
Food & Drink
Travellers told of Toronto’s “stench”
A travel warnings Web site is making a stink about Toronto's garbage strike, and that means bad news for a hospitality industry...
1
2
>>
Advertisement
Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Buy Canadian
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
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon