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Provincial Tories float the possibility of allowing corner stores to sell booze
Shrewdly, the provincial Progressive Conservatives are taking the momentum established by the Free Our Beer petition and running...
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City News
The man who raised millions for George Smitherman’s campaign is helping get Rob Ford re-elected
It’s no secret Rob Ford is thinking ahead to the 2014 election—and now he has landed fundraising veteran Ralph Lean to...
City News
Rob Granatstein: Toronto hydro rates are skyrocketing and politics are to blame
Toronto has a dearth of power plants and an aging grid. By the end of 2013, we’ll have the highest hydro rates on the...
City News
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...
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City News
Why doesn’t Rob Ford hit up his Conservative pals in Ottawa for the Sheppard subway cash?
The mayor has a big problem: the Sheppard subway extension that he’s promised to build increasingly appears to make no financial...
City News
Election night at the NDP “victory” party: Toronto’s left pretends it won
Judging by the cheering at the NDP’s unofficial Toronto headquarters last night, you’d never know that the New Democrats are...
City News
The three acts of Stephen Harper’s Conservative majority: merge, muzzle and march
There’s no denying it (as much as we might want to): Stephen Harper is now one of the most successful Canadian politicians of...
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City News
Torontonians might recognize Brad Trost, the Conservative MP who just made abortion an election issue again
It’s like clockwork: at some point during a federal election campaign, the Conservative party’s position social issues crop...
City News
The Sun reminds voters that Michael Ignatieff supported the Iraq War—just like Stephen Harper did
There’s some actual news in this report from Sun scribe Brian Lilley : beyond simply providing moral support, Michael Ignatieff...
City News
Gerard Kennedy versus Peggy Nash in Parkdale-High Park: the huggiest grudge match ever
Like so many ridings in the 416, Parkdale-High Park is hosting a showdown between the Liberals and the NDP while the Tories and...
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City News
Rick Mercer gets the youth vote out, Conservatives shut it back in
Rick Mercer might actually be the most powerful spokesperson for the youth vote in Canada. After years of national hand-wringing...
City News
Federal Election 2011 Leaders’ Debate: the Drinking Game
As the media keeps reminding us, today is the day everyone in Canada starts paying attention to the federal election. Tonight at 7...
City News
Five things Torontonians should look for in the federal election debates
This week, Canadians get to watch two debates among the leaders of the four official parties in the House of Commons—the English...
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Auditor general: Stephen Harper and Tony Clement lied to Parliament and may have broken laws before G8/G20
This morning the Canadian Press is pushing a hot story that may influence the outcome of the federal election: a report from...
City News
Watch a comparison between strikingly similar ads: one for Stephen Harper, one for a U.S. Republican candidate
The Liberal Party of Canada is sending around a video implying that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has borrowed American...
City News
What do Harper, Ignatieff and Layton’s favourite baseball moments say about their characters?
During election campaigns, it’s a time-honoured tradition for the media to analyze every scrap of data that it gets from party...
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City News
A one-on-one throwdown between Harper and Ignatieff could be the most Toronto-centric idea ever
An idea for the most Toronto-centric debate ever was floated yesterday: Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff in a head-to-head...
City News
Stephen Harper sings John Lennon’s “Imagine” with YouTube star, universe is confused
Conservative leader Stephen Harper sat down with YouTube star and Lady Gaga fan Maria Aragon and did what he always does whenever...
City News
Coalition talk more than just fear-mongering—it’s a GTA wedge issue
Only minutes into the election campaign—shortly after voting to topple the government on Friday— Michael Ignatieff emerged...
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And they’re off! After a prolonged snuggle, Harper government falls 156-145
Welcome to the 2011 Canadian general election, which officially started shortly after 2 p.m. as the opposition united behind the...
City News
The four vital issues that won’t be discussed in the upcoming election
For all intents and purposes, tomorrow is the expiration date for the 40th Canadian Parliament. This means that, for the next six-...
City News
Election Watch 2011: How do the federal parties’ ads stack up so far?
Canada is about 99.9 per cent likely to be heading into an election after next week , so all national parties have started to...
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City News
The housekeepers revolt: behind the labour dispute at the Royal York Hotel
In an era of decline for organized labour, an aggressive hospitality workers’ union is determined to turn menial labour into...
City News
After Japan’s nuclear disaster, Ontario asks important question: what does it mean for us?
The news from Japan today (the most reliable source is from the IAEA ) is pretty alarming, causing many to ask what this all means...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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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