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Quoted: Clayton Ruby isn’t over the Rob Ford conflict-of-interest case

– Clayton Ruby, the high-profile lawyer who nearly got Rob Ford booted from office, on why he’s asking the Supreme Court of...

A Life Interrupted: Hassan Rasouli’s journey from an earache to a high-stakes battle over end-of-life decisions

A Life Interrupted: Hassan Rasouli’s journey from an earache to a high-stakes battle over end-of-life decisions

Early in the summer of 2010, Hassan Rasouli, a 59-year-old engineer, had a problem with his right ear. He noticed sounds were...

Q&A: Brydie Bethell, the latest lawyer to represent Omar Khadr, reveals her client’s post-Guantanamo plans

Q&A: Brydie Bethell, the latest lawyer to represent Omar Khadr, reveals her client’s post-Guantanamo plans

Omar Khadr has been detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. He hired you last year. Did...

Q&A: Wind Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera, the man that’s battling big telecom

Q&A: Wind Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera, the man that’s battling big telecom

He’s been trading punches with the three big telecom companies for years. He’s just won a huge battle. Here’s what’s in it...

A federal government appeal jeopardizes Toronto’s bawdy house plans

A federal government appeal jeopardizes Toronto’s bawdy house plans

All the talk about where to put brothels in the city (and how to make money off them) may have been a tad premature—the federal...

For once, the courts give Conrad Black reason to be “delighted”

For once, the courts give Conrad Black reason to be “delighted”

The courts have delivered everybody’s second-most despised media supervillain something of a moral victory. The Supreme Court of...

Garth Drabinsky needs to just accept that he’s staying in jail

Theatre impresario and fraudster Garth Drabinsky is actually, for real, finally out of appeals. The Supreme Court of Canada...

Financial fraudster Garth Drabinsky continues his valiant struggle against the Man

Professional grifter Garth Drabinsky refuses to just give up and go to jail already. The Toronto Star is reporting that...

Is a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab an unreasonable accomodation?

Is a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab an unreasonable accomodation?

A case involving a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab is now headed for the Supreme Court. Maybe it’s time to...

Election sleeper issue #73: who will appoint Canada’s next Supreme Court judges?

Election sleeper issue #73: who will appoint Canada’s next Supreme Court judges?

Whoever wins the next election is going to have a bunch of things to deal with over the next [insert]...

First prostitution, now pot: Ontario courts keep targeting taboos

First prostitution, now pot: Ontario courts keep targeting taboos

The Ontario Superior Court has been busy lately, striking blows against contradictory laws. First there was last fall’s ruling...

Alberta court shoots down national securities regulator, all eyes still on Ottawa

Alberta court shoots down national securities regulator, all eyes still on Ottawa

The Harper government’s effort to give Bay Street a single national regulator had a minor setback yesterday, as an Alberta court...

Hydro utilities raising rates to cover cost of their legal misadventure

At this rate, it will be a neck-and-neck race as to which industry gets worse reviews: Ontario’s electricity providers or...

Toronto Transit Commission workers’ union properly reads the mood of the city for once: no strikes during contract negotiations, says leader Bob Kinnear

TTC union chief Bob Kinnear made a speech yesterday that demonstrated a quality we haven’t seen from the union since the last...

Happy anniversary: celebrating 10 years of gay marriage in Canada with Jack Layton and Peter Tabuns

Happy anniversary: celebrating 10 years of gay marriage in Canada with Jack Layton and Peter Tabuns

Last Friday was the 10th anniversary of the first legal gay marriages in the world, and the two married couples responsible for...

This week in whining: holdout provinces say Ottawa’s securities regulator can’t have a logo

In the ongoing family feud between Ottawa and some recalcitrant provinces over whether to have a national securities regulator or...

If Ottawa’s plans to regulate Bay Street blow up, does Toronto win again?

If Ottawa’s plans to regulate Bay Street blow up, does Toronto win again?

One of Stephen Harper ’s low-profile priorities is a plan to bring all of Canada’s provincial securities regulators under one...

The story behind Weizhen Tang—Toronto’s Bernie Madoff

The story behind Weizhen Tang—Toronto’s Bernie Madoff

Weizhen Tang told his investors they deserved to be rich and only he could make them so. Even now, after he lost all their money and was charged with running one of the country’s largest Ponzi schemes, his disciples still want him to keep trading. They believe it’s the only way they’ll get their $30 million back

Art exhibit reopens after multiple theft attempts and 11 years in storage

Art exhibit reopens after multiple theft attempts and 11 years in storage

When does a relatively small exhibition of Inuit carvings in a remote northern museum become a case of national intrigue? When...

Conrad Black back in court, likely hoping he picks lawyers better than mayoral candidates

Shortly after noon today, Conrad Black’ s lawyers walked into a Chicago courtroom and basically asked a panel of judges to kill...

Mothers, lock up your publicly traded companies: Conrad Black gets bail

Mothers, lock up your publicly traded companies: Conrad Black gets bail

The long-awaited moment is here: Conrad Black, recently vindicated by the U.S. Supreme Court, has been granted bail (but as of...

Baby got back taxes: Al Capone comparisons write themselves as the IRS asks Conrad Black for $71 million

Baby got back taxes: Al Capone comparisons write themselves as the IRS asks Conrad Black for $71 million

Given Conrad Black' s recent legal victories, he’s probably getting all sorts of encouraging letters from well-wishers who look...

Conrad Black applies for bail—and he just might get it

Conrad Black applies for bail—and he just might get it

As widely expected, Conrad Black isn't wasting any time trying to get out of his cell block. The former newspaper tycoon, having...

Conrad Black (slightly) vindicated, Supreme Court sends case back to court

Conrad Black (slightly) vindicated, Supreme Court sends case back to court

There will be some cheers from at least one cellblock today: Conrad Black , deposed media baron and convicted felon, got his day...

Private School Guide

The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025

The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025

Big Stories

Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar

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

The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy

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

The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC

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

Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king

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

Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show, Small Achievable Goals

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?

Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm

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

Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian

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

Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield

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

The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation

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?

Almost Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom

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

"I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial"

“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”

How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence

Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025

Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025

For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead

The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own

The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own

After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports

The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024

The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024

Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it

Buy Canadian

Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches

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

“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers

“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

The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini

The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini

With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative

These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you

These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you

Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions