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Q&A: Tracey Cook, the licensing and standards chief who took on the cab industry
She helped legitimize Uber. Now pot dispensary operators are feeling her wrath
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Here’s what you need to know the next time you take a taxi or Uber
Toronto's new Uber rules are here. Here's what they mean
City News
The 10 biggest moments in Toronto transportation in the last 50 years
The trains, roads, strikes and spats that mattered most
City News
Five things you need to know about the city’s new proposed Uber regulations
If Uber wants to be legal in Toronto, it's going to have to agree to some terms, first
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Should Toronto put an end to UberX? The app’s biggest booster and its mortal enemy square off
Uber Canada general manager Ian Black in conversation with Kristine Hubbard, Beck Taxi's operations manager
City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #7, Ian Black
Black is the regional head of a global corporate scofflaw
City News
Q&A: Jim Karygiannis, the anti-Uber crusader
Councillor Jim Karygiannis made his reputation as a strident defender of the traditional taxi. Yet he received thousands of dollars from that same industry. Conflict? He says nah
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what should I do with my back-seat cab-driving boyfriend?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Every time I take a cab with my boyfriend, he guides our driver using the Waze app, which plots out the...
City News
“We know the city better than they do”: Toronto taxi drivers on what makes them better than Uber
Uber is in court this week defending its right to flood Toronto's streets with semi-pro drivers, who use its UberX service to hire...
City News
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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Culture
How do movie crews make Toronto look like New York? One fake police car at a time
Film is a billion-dollar business in Toronto. Lured by favourable exchange rates and tax credits, American companies come here to...
Life
Hailo is leaving North America—but maybe not Toronto
Hailo , the taxi-hailing app that has been ingratiating its way onto Toronto's smartphones since its local launch in 2012, is...
City News
Prepayment, vomit fees: here’s what Toronto’s new taxi regime will mean for you
In the world of Toronto transit, the TTC gets all the credit for being excessively difficult to improve in any way—but you know...
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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 $4.25 starting fare exorbitant, while the current...
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Taxi-hailing app Uber has been charged with operating without a license
Since launching last March, Uber, the best known of Toronto’s taxi- and limo-hailing apps, has seen its share of vocal...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Are cabbies allowed refuse to drive me because I’m carrying my dog?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I read in the Sun about a Muslim cabbie who rejected a passenger carrying a pet, and I thought it was a...
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Uber’s new weapon in the taxi-app battles: free cab rides
Of the several car-hailing apps that have launched in Toronto in the past year, Uber, an app that summons limos, town cars and now...
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Toronto has another new car app—and this one summons regular-fare taxis
Toronto has yet another new smart phone app to help stranded urbanites find a ride. Tap’n Ride, the brainchild of Rosedale...
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The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
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Gone to pot: the story behind Toronto’s $100-million marijuana economy
Vietnamese gangs recruit teams of immigrants, install elaborate hydroponic equipment in their basements, and train them to raise...
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Comparing cab rates: Toronto has the 20th most expensive taxis in the world
We all know that taxis are expensive in Toronto, but today’s Globe goes one step further and proves it . According to the paper...
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Sarah Thomson’s green plan shocks all by not being pie-in-the-sky
Most observers have been pretty tough on Sarah Thomson 's transit plan for the city. Hey, we love the idea of putting subway...
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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?
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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
Deep Dives
“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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
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Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand