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Is the city about to junk the Waterfront Toronto process in exchange for a huge Ferris wheel?
The Iron Rule of Toronto politics seems to be that no grand plan survives the city’s incredible ability to choke somewhere down...
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City News
Russell Oliver—a.k.a. the “Cashman”—really will give you cash (lots of it) for your gold
Today, the Toronto Star took a break from making us terrified of swimming pools to investigate the city’s notoriously...
City News
Reaction Roundup: An outpouring of love, respect and grief in the wake of Jack Layton’s death
The last time this blogger had the pleasure of speaking with Jack Layton was for an Informer post during the federal election. The...
City News
Rob Ford’s mysterious meeting schedule released only to reveal something everybody already knew anyway
The recent release of a copy of Mayor Rob Ford’ s meeting schedule confirmed something we—and everybody else—already...
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City News
Things Margaret Atwood likes: libraries, book clubs, strong language; things Margaret Atwood does not like: Doug and Rob Ford
We’re guessing by now the Brothers Ford know exactly who Margaret Atwood is. After Doug Ford caused a bit of a brouhaha amongst...
Food & Drink
La Palette pulls horsemeat from its menu following Star exposé
Yesterday we dove into the Toronto Star ’ s hard-hitting investigation of the horsemeat industry in Canada. Among those...
City News
Is Rob Ford a self-loathing, Tea Party–parroting mayor?
Seriously, we’re not even kidding here. After reading a thought-provoking piece by Toronto Star urban affairs bureau chief David...
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Food & Drink
Six things we learned from the Star’s investigation into the Canadian horsemeat industry
Any time an investigation takes place at a “kill auction,” you know its findings will be grim. This weekend’s report from...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Is this the beginning of the end for Rob Ford?
This week wasn’t a good one for Mayor Rob Ford . Between his brother Doug insulting Margaret Atwood (and then having Chapters...
City News
How that disposable pamphlet of infotainment that’s an inescapable part of our daily commute—a.k.a. Metro—is now the most-read paper in the country
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and Metro ’s Church Street newsroom is quiet and empty. By now, reporters at every other paper...
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Food & Drink
VIDEO: In our favourite reaction to yesterday’s hotpocalypse, the Star’s Chris So cooks a roast in his sedan
While most cubicle dwellers burrowed themselves away in the cool confines of their A.C.-blasting offices during yesterday’s...
City News
Recent fact-checking spree reveals that no, Etobicoke doesn’t have more libraries than Timmies, contra Doug Ford
We suspect that “fact-checking the Fords” will be a growth industry for city hall watchers, especially after Ed Keenan ’s...
City News
Hotpocalypse: Toronto media forget that whole “eight months of winter” thing and go nutty in the hot, hot heat
Okay, this is going to be one of the hottest days in a long time. We get it. Thirty-eight degrees is pretty damn spicy, and the...
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City News
Another Toronto Star columnist tries out the whole civic government thing
One more case like this and it’ll officially be a trend. First, Rosie DiManno took over the SIU’s investigation into the...
City News
Michael Thompson would like to clarify something very important
“I love Christmas. Don’t anybody think for a moment that Thompson doesn’t love Christmas. I do.” That was Toronto...
City News
Critics accuse Mayor Ford of getting all Shock Doctrine-y
The Toronto Star never quite comes out and says it, but the basic argument various critics of Rob Ford seem to be making is that...
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Stuck in the ’90s?: Sun papers leave the Ontario Press Council, citing “political correctness”
This is all a bit insider-y, but we can’t help but detect Kory Teneycke ’s hand at work here: the Sun chain of papers has...
City News
G20 Aftermath: one of the largest mass arrests in Canadian history nets only a handful of charges
This Sunday marks the first anniversary of the G20 summit in Toronto, and instead of a celebratory kettle of local citizens—you...
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School’s in: leather-clad teacher leads this year’s Toronto Star Best Dressed list
Now that we’re all hot for teacher , the Toronto Star has broken from tradition somewhat in making this year’s Best Dressed...
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Another front-page treatment on the Star, another officer charged with G20 offenses
The Toronto Star continued to do the investigative work the Toronto police would prefer it didn’t, managing once more to splash...
Real Estate News
Mark Wahlberg purchases an exclusive penthouse property in the city that saved his life
TIFF is still a few months away, but the celebrity sightings are already starting. In the last week alone , Robert Pattinson made...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 20, A Star story prompted 30 grand for Haiti relief
When the Haitian earthquake hit late on a Tuesday afternoon in January 2010, two-year-old Lovely Avelus was watching cartoons. Six...
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Food & Drink
Glenn De Baeremaeker proposes city-wide shark fin ban, taking a cue from…Brantford?
A couple weeks ago, the city of Brantford—yes, that Brantford—raised eyebrows when city councillors voted unanimously to ban...
City News
Ford’s hand-picked Sheppard Subway quarterback starts calling his own shots
Gordon Chong , now the chair of Toronto Transit Infrastructure Ltd ., caused a bit of a stir over the weekend by telling the...
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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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