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QUOTED: Josh Matlow on Doug Ford’s fairy-tale approach to transit funding
— Councillor Josh Matlow, comparing the likelihood of building a subway without a transit expansion fund to that of gifting kids...
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Tony Keller: why the obvious fix for the country’s collective pension problem is being ignored
Last fall, the Royal Bank of Canada—with $27 billion in annual revenue, $752 billion in assets and 74,000 employees, the biggest...
City News
Royal Bank plays off a major lawsuit like it’s no big deal
The way the Royal Bank of Canada is acting, you’d think the seriously massive lawsuit brought against it by a U.S. regulator is...
City News
High (finance) drama between Royal Bank and a U.S. regulator
A lawsuit filed yesterday against Royal Bank of Canada could make for major scandal: a U.S. regulator is accusing Canada’s...
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Q&A: Mark Ferguson, the trash-talking Buddhist at the head of CUPE Local 416
When he wins, the public hates him. When he loses, his members hate him. As CUPE 416 president, you spent 16 weeks locked in...
City News
Rob Ford may not have subway financing plans, but he does have photos of LRT crashes
Only a day until the meeting that will determine Sheppard Avenue’s transit future, and councillors with crucial swing votes are...
City News
Exclusive golf clubs are actually going to pay their taxes...soonish
Just in time for pseudo-summer, today’s Toronto Star returns to a strange tax situation involving nine exclusive country clubs...
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Rob Ford proclaims the vehicle registration tax dead (again)
After rumours that Rob Ford might try to reinstate the vehicle registration tax to finance the Sheppard subway surfaced on...
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Toronto residents are paying more taxes than they have to—on purpose!
When city councillors floated the idea of voluntary taxes last year, we couldn’t tell if they were making a sincere...
City News
Would Rob Ford revive the vehicle registration tax to finance his Sheppard subway?
Naturally, our knee-jerk answer is no. Absolutely not. Rob Ford would never impose something like that on the good taxpayers of...
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Almost Rich: an examination of the true cost of city living and why rich is never rich enough
An income of $196,000 places you in the country’s top one per cent of earners. But does it make you wealthy? The Western world...
City News
Year in Review: our 10 favourite Rob Ford storylines of 2011
Naturally, with someone the likes of Rob Ford at the city helm, it was no easy task to pick only our 10 favourite mayoral...
City News
Rob Granatstein: why the city should sell off its assets—slowly but surely
To close the budget gap, Rob Ford wants to sell city assets. Good idea, bad timing. Even a novice real estate investor knows to...
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City politicians could raise taxes, and citizens might actually be okay with it (no, really)
That’s right, this week deputants at city hall asked politicians to make them pay more taxes. It turns out some Torontonians...
City News
Any plan to fix the Gardiner is prohibitively expensive—so what’s the city supposed to do?
Here, a few of the various plans that have been proposed to improve the Gardiner over the years, courtesy of the CBC. One designer...
City News
Apparently, funding transit is more complicated than just asking people to open their wallets
The Toronto Star’ s Royson James appears to have pinpointed Torontonians’ reluctance to fork over much-needed cash for...
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Destination Munkistan: A look at Peter Munk’s new Adriatic playground for the super-rich
The latest project of the gold magnate Peter Munk is a seaside resort and tax haven for fellow billionaires in the post-Soviet...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $3.5 million for a Provençal-inspired home nestled in Gordon Woods
ADDRESS: 195 Harborn Trail NEIGHBOURHOOD: Cooksville, Mississauga AGENT: Hamish John Gordon, RE/MAX Realty Enterprises...
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Kristyn Wong-Tam suggests Toronto start its own bank; comparisons to Bible Bill Aberhart ensue
Mayor Rob Ford is fond of saying that when it comes to balancing the budget, his opponents believe massive tax increases are the...
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The blame game: Tim Hudak’s provincial election loss is the result of a bad campaign bus, among other things
Our friends at Torontoist may have coined the best term for post–provincial election analysis: a post-boretem . By all...
City News
Tim Hudak spent his life climbing the Tory ladder and now he has a shot at taking over Queen’s Park—but can he convince voters he’s more than just Mike Harris lite?
Tim Hudak is riding in the back of an RV, a big, bouncy RV wrapped in an enormous picture of his smiling face, and he’s coming...
City News
Marcus Gee provides another reason for the city to feel not-so-world-class
Rob Ford is fond of saying that Toronto has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. Today, Marcus Gee argues that Toronto has...
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Councillors dare you to pay more taxes voluntarily
Turns out disrupted sleep schedules and political procrastination might not be the only products of this week’s all-night...
City News
Five highlights—and learnings—from last night’s executive committee marathon meeting (round deux)
Sure, it’s often difficult to pinpoint precisely when a meeting falls apart—but we’re going to venture a guess that last...
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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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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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