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“These companies are targeting our kids”: The chair of the TDSB on its decision to sue TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat for $4.5 billion
Rachel Chernos Lin says addictive social media platforms are driving anxiety, depression and violence in the student body—and she thinks the companies behind them should pay the price
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Q&A: Education Minister Liz Sandals on getting the new sex ed curriculum past a mob of angry parents
In September, under your new curriculum, students will learn about anal and oral sex starting in Grade 7. Why is that the...
City News
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...
City News
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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Editor’s Letter (December 2012): under the influence
David Mirvish’s plan to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre and build three 80-plus-storey Frank Gehry–designed condo...
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Susur Lee goes all Jamie Oliver with new TDSB cafeteria initiative
Last year, the Toronto District School Board closed 32 of its cafeterias after the province set stricter guidelines about serving...
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Buyers beware: several schools near condo towers have no room for new students
Living in a condo building with kids can be tough: there’s less space for playtime, more insults from deputy mayor Doug Holyday...
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Toronto’s Africentric high-school program finds a home
The Toronto District School Board has opened enrollment for the city’s first Africentric high-school program, which will kick...
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The principal of Toronto’s Africentric school has decided to leave
There are changes afoot at Africentric Alternative, Toronto’s controversial school-within-a-school geared toward black...
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Allah in the Cafeteria: Inside the school prayer scandal at Valley Park Middle School
When the principal at Valley Park Middle School allowed 400 Muslim students to pray in the lunchroom, he thought he was being...
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The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
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Hudak delivers an electoral gift to McGuinty in the form of controversial flyer
Tim Hudak gave the Liberal and NDP campaigns some free advertising yesterday, when he defended a campaign flyer that deploys scare...
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Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
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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...
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Why educational apartheid is not the answer to curbing dropout rates for specific racial and ethnic groups
The tall black man was angry. “I want to propose 10 seconds of silence in memory of Brother Dudley Laws,” he said into the...
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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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,
Small Achievable Goals
The
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?
Deep Dives
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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
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A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling