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Uber Toronto general manager Ian Black on why the city hates his company, and why John Tory doesn’t
Everyone has heard of Uber, but not everyone’s sure what it is. Help us out. It’s a smartphone app: click a button and a car...
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Toronto’s taxi industry gets its long-awaited overhaul
It almost didn't happen, but on Wednesday city council finally put an end to a years-long effort to overhaul Toronto's taxi...
City News
Why it could soon be more difficult to hail a taxi—and more expensive once you do
Exactly nobody is happy with Toronto’s screwed-up taxi system. Riders find the $4.25 starting fare exorbitant, while the current...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: I found $100 in the back of a cab. What should I do with it?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I got into a cab a few days ago outside First Canadian Place and found a $100 bill on the floor. I quickly...
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City News
Taxi-hailing app Uber has been charged with operating without a license
Since launching last March, Uber, the best known of Toronto’s taxi- and limo-hailing apps, has seen its share of vocal...
City News
Uber’s new weapon in the taxi-app battles: free cab rides
Of the several car-hailing apps that have launched in Toronto in the past year, Uber, an app that summons limos, town cars and now...
City News
Uber, the luxury car-hailing app, may be breaking city bylaws
When Uber, a smartphone app that allows users to hail black sedans and SUVs, arrived in Toronto, many locals, used to...
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Tomorrow, an ice cream truck is at your beck and call (for only $12)
If you’re having trouble remembering who’s who among the various Toronto taxi apps, Uber has launched a delicious marketing...
City News
Toronto has another new car app—and this one summons regular-fare taxis
Toronto has yet another new smart phone app to help stranded urbanites find a ride. Tap’n Ride, the brainchild of Rosedale...
City News
Amex cardholders will get fast-tracked past the riffraff at Pearson airport security
This week, American Express announced a marketing partnership with Pearson airport that should make cardholders happy and other...
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City News
Tension between taxi drivers and other road users grows after longboarder Ralph Bissonette’s death
The battle for space and safety on city streets is making headlines again in light of the death of Ralph Bissonette, the...
City News
Rob Granatstein: how city hall tries—and fails—to tackle the systemically screwed-up Toronto taxi industry
Toronto’s taxi industry has been a mess for more than 50 years. As a passenger, you feel it as soon as you slide your bum onto...
City News
Smart phone app hails luxury cars for rich people frustrated by Toronto’s transit options
With Torontonians annoyed by a troubled taxi industry and public transit mayhem, San Francisco start-up Uber Technologies thought...
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Denzil Minnan-Wong, darling of the taxi industry, wants to force all cab companies to use the same car
Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong may be one of Rob Ford ’s staunchest allies on council, but let it never be said that he isn’t...
City News
Taxi fight at city hall now featuring irate constituents chasing councillors on foot
The debate over how to fix Toronto’s controversial two-tier system for taxi licensing got a little weirder yesterday. The day...
City News
Could the solution to the city’s taxi trouble be worse than the original problem?
Toronto cabbies don’t have it easy—and not just because so many of them are wildly overqualified for their current jobs. While...
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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
Giambrone spent city money on cab trip to meet Kristin Lucas
Adam Giambrone is back in the news. Last year, he apparently expensed $3,000 in cab fares: that’s one $11.50 cab ride...
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I’m sick of cabbies giving me the stink eye when I try to pay with Visa. Aren’t they required to take credit?
Credit cards are indeed the kryptonite of the cab world, but not without reason. Most cab companies charge employees a processing...
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What can I do if my cab driver is talking on a cellphone?
Dear Urban Decoder: What can I do if my cab driver is talking on a cellphone?— Maeve Grady, Eglinton West First off, know your...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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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