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Could the TDSB really be broken up into smaller school boards?
THE IDEA Earlier this month, education minister Liz Sandals appointed an expert panel to troubleshoot the notoriously...
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Inside the nasty, bizarro, contemptible, gobsmackingly screwed-up soap opera that is the TDSB
The evening of Wednesday October 29 was possibly the most absurd in the history of the Toronto District School Board. The board of...
City News
#TorontoIsFailingMe: My students are terrified of getting shot
I took over as principal at Lawrence Heights Middle School in September 2009. I wanted to work in a challenging...
City News
#TorontoIsFailingMe: My kid’s school is a disgrace
My wife and I are originally from India, but spent more than a decade living in Abu Dhabi, where I worked as a computer...
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TDSB Education Director Donna Quan’s pay package is now slightly less mysterious
— Donna Quan’ s current salary as director of education for the Toronto District School Board, according to a TDSB...
City News
Not every TDSB school is rolling in bake-sale money
—The amount of donation money raised per student during the 2012-2013 session at Quest Alternative Senior School , a 68-student...
City News
A TDSB trustee billed taxpayers for a tour of Israel, for some reason
—The amount of Toronto District School Board money trustee Gerri Gershon spent on a tour of Israel, according to an internal...
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TDSB is spending $700,000 to fix a security breach it created all by itself
In the bitterly ironic world of Toronto District School Board politics, even a newspaper investigation into wasteful spending...
City News
Ex-TDSB director Chris Spence wants the University of Toronto to let him keep his PhD
It's possible that Chris Spence has suffered enough. Hired as TDSB's education director in 2009, his reform mandate came to an...
City News
TDSB trustees are misusing their expense accounts, an auditor finds
The Toronto District School Board's trustees have a new bullet point to add to their lengthy resume of failures: a new internal...
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TDSB trustee Sam Sotiropoulos suggests the Pride parade is a haven for nudist pedophiles
When TDSB trustee Sam Sotiropoulos launched his ultimately unsuccessful bid to ban nudity at the Toronto Pride parade, his...
City News
What’s the matter with the Toronto District School Board?
Today's revelation that the Toronto District School Board has funneled tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars into a charity...
City News
School board trustees want the city to arrest naked people at the Pride parade, for the children
What happens if a high school student sees a naked dude during the Pride parade ? Toronto District School Board trustees Sam...
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Updated: TDSB director Chris Spence has plagiarized his way out of his job
The scandal over plagiarized passages in Chris Spence’ s latest Toronto Star op-ed escalated today, when the National Post...
City News
Editor’s Letter (October 2012): Toronto’s daycare dilemma
The daycare my son used to attend, in the west end, was located in a building that was falling apart. His caregivers were the...
City News
Q&A: we ask TDSB director Chris Spence if specialized schools are becoming too specialized
TDSB director Chris Spence is launching a series of public elementary academies, each focused on singing, wellness or leadership...
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Jan Wong: Why aren’t schools teaching kids about the pleasures and perils of sex?
The answer is simple: our curriculum is shamefully outdated, and the Liberals are too scared to fix it Adam and Eve nibble an...
City News
Jesse Brown: Why smart phones in the classroom equals smarter kids
Fears of cyber-cheating and sexting in school are so last year When Dalton McGuinty suggested in September 2010 that cellphones...
City News
How bullying became the crisis of a generation
Kids are committing suicide, parents are in a panic, and schools that neglect to protect students are lawsuit targets Mitchell...
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School board joins the fight against Rob Ford’s so-called “war on children”
A new front has opened in the resistance against Rob Ford’ s new budget—the TDSB is planning to publicize the impact of the...
City News
Councillor Doug Ford suggests UFC athletes teach Toronto children about bullying
Apparently, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has its own community outreach program, and Doug Ford is a big fan. According to...
City News
Reason to love Toronto: because the TDSB isn’t afraid to let its rainbow flag fly
Gays and lesbians have been able to marry legally in Ontario since 2003, which makes our province an international leader in the...
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TDSB asked to move gifted program from overcrowded school—charges of racism and elitism ensue
Somehow the biggest story in Toronto public education is all of a sudden all about class, race and prestige. The story centres on...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 37, The TDSB is teaching students to i-Think
The TDSB knows something about complex problems—it’s facing more than a few, including a budget deficit, declining enrolments...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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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