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Toronto Community Housing says federal funding is drying up
Canada’s biggest landlord warns that up to 19,000 units will soon be in critical condition
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Real Estate News
Hundreds of affordable units will soon tower over CityPlace
The site in question is currently an ugly lot at the foot of Fort York
Real Estate News
Swansea Mews to receive 650 new homes—three years after its ceiling collapsed
The Toronto Community Housing complex will bring new density and affordability to High Park
Real Estate News
Mayor Olivia Chow wants this tower off Coxwell to be Toronto’s new standard for affordable housing
The city unveiled the mixed-income Don Summerville complex last week
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City News
“People always want to give me stuff for free. I just want to direct it to people who actually need it”: A Q&A with Noah “40” Shebib and Justice Fund CEO Yonis Hassan
Here, 40 talks about the first beats he ever made, mixing Drake's next album and his new charitable venture
Real Estate News
Here’s what developers want to build on a patch of Toronto Community Housing land in the Annex
What it is: A 28-storey, 315-unit condo tower with townhouses around its base, shown to the right in the rendering above. All of...
City News
Affordable-housing funding can’t be used to repair TCHC properties
On Monday, the province and the federal government jointly announced a new five-year, $801-million cash commitment to affordable...
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City News
QUOTED: Rob Ford, on the loss of his favourite TCHC executive ever
– Rob Ford , proving that no political situation is too complex to reduce to a sports metaphor. In the days since Toronto's...
City News
Gene Jones is out as CEO of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation
At a press conference this afternoon following a closed-door board meeting, Toronto Community Housing Corporation board chair Bud...
City News
Rob Ford’s response to yesterday’s ombudsman’s report: fire the ombudsman
Every now and then we get a glimpse of what Toronto would be like if Rob Ford actually had the authority to implement his policy...
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City News
Four things we learned from the city ombudsman’s scathing report on staffing practices at TCHC
City ombudsman Fiona Crean ’s much-anticipated report on hiring practices at the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, released...
City News
Mark your calendars: TCHC’s next major scandal is scheduled for Tuesday
The Toronto Community Housing Corporation has gone nearly a year without a headline-grabbing scandal, but the Star says that...
Real Estate News
Slideshow: how much are TCHC’s stand-alone homes selling for in Riverdale?
Right now, and over the course of the next year, Torontonians have the rare opportunity to buy homes directly from the Toronto...
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City News
The TCHC still has high executive turnover (but at least it’s voluntary this time)
Though TTC theatrics are hogging the spotlight today, there’s also some drama to report at the Toronto Community Housing...
City News
Rob Ford invites Dalton McGuinty to hang out—at a community housing building
When the province decided to delay the city’s decision to sell 65 Toronto Community Housing homes, Rob Ford first took a formal...
City News
Rob Ford sends a polite but angry letter to Dalton McGuinty
The provincial Liberals annoyed Rob Ford earlier this spring by refusing to override council on the LRT-versus-subway...
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Gene Jones, the new TCHC boss, used to go on nighttime drug raids
The Toronto Community Housing Corporation has been muddling along without a permanent CEO since Keiko Nakamura was fired last...
City News
Regent Park condo purchases were probably legit (but they’ll be reviewed nonetheless)
The potentially shady condo purchases over at Regent Park have now grown from “ Toronto Sun scandal” to “possibly legitimate...
City News
Former TCHC exec Gordon Chu got the city to pay for his car—twice
While Rob Ford wants to sell off Toronto Community Housing homes to raise money for repairs, the TCHC could probably find cash...
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Rob Ford and Ana Bailão set to work together to save nearly 600 TCHC homes
Following nasty council debates on the budget and transit, it looks like Rob Ford has been wrestled into submission on another big...
City News
Is Rob Ford willing to, gulp, compromise on the TCHC fire sale proposal?
Rob Ford usually regards compromise with the same sense of scorn he reserves for cyclists, public sector unions and above-grade...
City News
Rob Ford’s executive committee is no longer all-powerful as city council enters a new era
Either the magical powers of Giorgio Mammoliti ’s thumb are waning or the mayor’s executive committee is quickly realizing it...
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Rob Ford is learning to compromise (or at least it looks like he might be)
Rob Ford has backed down from a plan to sell off hundreds of Toronto Community Housing properties—for now. The mayor released a...
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Wines of the World
Food & Drink
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
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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