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Toronto’s billion-dollar problem: our cops
From our 2016 piece on the Toronto Police Service: Inside the problems plaguing the city's law enforcement
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Black Lives Matter protestors talk about their two-week protest—and when it might end
"They are waiting for us to tire out"
City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #23, Mark Saunders
Saunders heads up the country’s largest municipal police force
City News
Could Toronto police be made to answer to the city for their out-of-control budget?
THE IDEA While other public services are forced to deal with aggressive cuts, policing in Toronto has proven to be...
City News
John Tory has an opinion about police carding, which is that he has no discernible opinion
At a Wednesday summit on black issues where new police chief Mark Saunders (who is black) came out firmly in favour of continuing...
Life
The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black
The summer I was nine, my teenage cousin Sana came from England to visit my family in Oshawa. He was tall, handsome and...
City News
Editor’s Letter: the cost of police carding is just too high
Since the Toronto Police Service introduced the practice of carding about 10 years ago, they have collected data on over a million...
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“Getting cussed out comes with the job”: Ten parking enforcement officers share their on-the-job horror stories
John Tory's “zero tolerance” policy on illegal parking during rush hour has a lot of Torontonians seeing...
City News
Deputy police chief Peter Sloly on running to succeed Bill Blair, and the first item on his agenda if he does: race
As deputy police chief, you are frequently mentioned as a favourite to succeed Bill Blair. Do you want the job? William Blair is...
City News
Why an end to police carding is only the beginning
I was asked, in November, to join a panel on police relations with young Torontonians. Early on in the event, police chief Bill...
City News
“It happened to me once”: five Regent Park carding stories
On January 1, police chief Bill Blair quietly suspended "carding," the Toronto police practice of routinely stopping, questioning...
City News
Q&A: Mike McCormack, Toronto cops’ biggest defender
Mike McCormack is the head of the Toronto Police Association , the labour union that represents over 8,000 civilian and uniformed...
City News
Retired police commander Norn Miles: “I’d do it again”
—Retired York Region police commander Norn Miles , on his decision to fake-arrest some G20 detainees as an excuse to release...
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The fallout from Toronto’s G20 isn’t over yet
—The number of police constables found guilty of discreditable conduct for their actions during the Toronto G20 summit to...
City News
Bill Blair wants to shrink Toronto’s police force slightly
—The number of officers soon-to-be-former police chief Bill Blair is asking the police board to eliminate from Toronto's force...
City News
Can any mayoral candidate really tame the police budget?
THE IDEA In early August, before he called it quits on his doomed, largely self-funded bid for the mayoralty, David Soknacki awed...
City News
The killing of Sammy Yatim
Just before midnight on July 26, 2013, Sammy Yatim boarded a westbound Dundas streetcar and made his way to the back. He was...
City News
David Soknacki does the impossible, by turning the police budget into an election issue
D-Soks is still behind in the polls, but he has just made a valuable—maybe even a very valuable—contribution to the 2014...
City News
John Lorinc, on the search for police chief Bill Blair’s replacement:
"In fact, when you add it all up—the lunatic politics, the high-handed treatment meted out to public servants and the fact that...
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Police Chief Bill Blair is out, as of next April
The Toronto Police Services Board has just announced that it won't be renewing police chief (and Toronto Life cover model ) Bill...
City News
Almost a year after Sammy Yatim, Toronto Police get a report on how to deal with people in crisis
Almost a year to the day after the shooting death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim , a long-awaited report on police encounters with...
City News
Toronto police officers can no longer accost you for no reason
At a special meeting on Thursday, the Toronto Police Services Board approved a long-awaited new policy that forbids police...
City News
UPDATED: Doug Ford gets police chief Bill Blair investigated for misconduct
Doug Ford has frequently alleged that his brother Rob's troubles are the result of a conspiracy against the Ford family. His...
City News
Why has Rob Ford not been charged with anything? Here are eight theories and one real explanation
The Rob Ford crack scandal has taken a dark turn. On Wednesday, a new batch of police documents revealed information suggesting...
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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
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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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