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TRCA kills Rob Ford’s dream of buying up parkland by his house to build a big fence
As expected, the executive committee of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has decided to follow its staff’s...
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TRCA staff not cool with Rob Ford buying the (now infamous) land near his house
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority officials hinted that its board shouldn’t allow Rob Ford to buy that notorious bit of...
City News
The weirdest mayoralty ever—the inside story of Rob Ford’s city hall
On Newstalk 1010, the sly strains of the Hollies hit “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” offered the first clue. Then...
City News
Rob Ford doesn’t go mute when faced with Toronto Star reporters
After finding Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale near his house on May 3, Rob Ford vowed not to participate in press conferences if...
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Daniel Dale won’t face charges for standing near Rob Ford’s house
City News
Rob Ford and journalists get passive-aggressive during World Press Freedom Week
Here’s a scenario that feels more like satire than real life: Rob Ford marked World Press Freedom Week with a speech about the...
City News
Rob Ford’s plan to buy parkland advances—as does the Toronto Star’s campaign against it
There won’t be any decision just yet about whether Rob Ford can buy the strip of parkland next to his Etobicoke bungalow...
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Reaction Roundup: a few sane arguments (in a whole sea of crazy) about Rob Ford’s backyard showdown
The strange tale of Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale’s altercation with Rob Ford keeps escalating (as does our vicarious...
City News
Rob Ford waves his fist at a Toronto Star reporter in a bizarre backyard altercation
The ongoing beef between Rob Ford and the Toronto Star got real weird last night. Here’s the rundown: around 7:30 pm, a...
City News
VIDEO: Rob Ford goes to KFC. That is all.
We actually feel sorry for Rob Ford on this one. After a mirth-filled citizen caught the dieting mayor heading into a west-end...
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QUOTED: Jeanne Beker remembers the Incredible Hulk (and proves she doesn’t understand major league sports)
—Fashion Television host Jeanne Beker remarks on the “jazziness” of the lime green in Seattle’s new NFL uniform. We’re...
Style
Baby animal watch: the Toronto Star wonders who this lemur’s daddy might be
When we saw the Toronto Zoo’ s new baby lemur, we thought, “That’s a cute lemur.” When the folks at the Toronto Star saw...
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Bill Blair blasts the Toronto Star for its use of “grotesque language”
The Toronto Star , having long chronicled Toronto’s police missteps and scandals, has finally gone too far for Police Chief Bill...
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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...
City News
Tim Hudak’s transit grandstanding was a political move—but not a good one
Tim Hudak’ s bit of grandstanding on the Toronto transit file was a political move—and a bad one, it would seem. In today’s...
Food & Drink
Tim Hortons announces plans for global domination (also: panini)
Yesterday, Tim Hortons announced a new expansion that sounds so aggressive you may want to make sure there isn’t one popping up...
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Six things we learned about how chefs are dealing with rising food prices from today’s Star
Though the proliferation of exorbitantly priced hamburgers may make it hard to believe, most chefs hate passing the high price of...
City News
Here’s what the Sun, the Star, the suburbs and downtown think about Rob Ford
It’s probably safe to say those “What people think I do” memes are nearing their expiration date ( so say the folks on...
City News
The Toronto Star’s Richard Ouzounian pens “the worst remembrance of Whitney Houston on the Internet”
Snarky site Gawker has called a column by Toronto Star critic Richard Ouzounian “the worst remembrance of Whitney Houston on the...
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Food & Drink
La Palette brings back the horsemeat
La Palette ’s horsemeat hiatus didn’t last long— viande chevaline will return to the menu at the Queen Street bistro as of...
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Has H&M captured the plight of rape survivors in a movie-themed capsule collection?
There was a launch party last night for H&M’s Girl With The Dragon Tattoo collection at the Thompson Hotel in Toronto, but...
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Toronto media get very, very excited about an intoxicated couple making whoopee on the TTC
The Toronto Star dropped a cheeky “Ride the Rocket” joke; BlogTO played on the “mile-high club ; ” Newstalk 1010 spoke of...
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Rob Ford’s old website is hacked—but sadly, not by the Toronto Star
When the mayor’s registration of RobFord.ca expired earlier this year, an opportunistic prankster seized the...
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Ryerson journalism professor to the Star: Fight the power (quietly)
The long-running spat between Mayor Rob Ford and the Toronto Star ramped up last week: first the Star filed a complaint with the...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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