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UPDATE: Toronto Police Service reopens G20 assault case after the Star makes it look bad
Well, that was fast. This morning, the Toronto Star reported that even the roommate of the cop who allegedly assaulted Dorian...
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City News
G20 Aftermath: the Toronto Star makes the police look silly (yet again)
The Star has been like a dog with a bone when it comes to the fallout from last summer’s G20 summit, diligently following the...
City News
Goodbye, Caribana; hello, Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Toronto
A street festival by any other name would be as much fun? We sure hope so, because today our beloved Caribana died, and the...
City News
The war on fun takes aim at a new target: city patios
City council was busy junking 2010’s harmonization of city zoning bylaws yesterday—but as the Toronto Star points out , that...
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City News
The Star discovers non-motorists’ lives come cheap in Ontario
A lot of cyclists already knew that the price drivers pay for killing a pedestrian in Ontario is absurdly low—but we’re happy...
City News
Hashtag of the day—careful, it’s odorific
Some days Toronto stinks, and not just a little bit. People on their way to work this morning discovered a funk lingering over the...
Real Estate News
Fusty columnist meets the listicle: the Star presents Toronto’s most beautiful buildings
At first glance, Toronto Star architecture columnist Christopher Hume isn’t who we'd expect to jump ship to the wild world of...
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City News
Yesterday’s arrest means Parkdale can breathe a little easier—but the treatment of the mentally ill remains an issue
After a disturbing series of assaults that targeted residents with mental illness—some of whom were elderly—in the city’s...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Canada elects a Harper majority, the NDP surges and two parties are left in shambles
The fun thing about predictions is how often they’re wrong, and the scenario we outlined yesterday ( Michael Ignatieff playing...
City News
Endorsements: nobody’s sure if they matter, but the press keeps making them anyway
Over there on the left? That’s constitutional éminence grise Peter Russell , and judging from the video, it’s pretty clear he...
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City News
Toronto high school’s late start-time pilot a success, will be ignored or fought elsewhere
Teenage schoolchildren wake up for class too early. It sounds crazy, but it’s true, and one Toronto high school decided to take...
Style
Jeanne Beker fights for content as she assumes post as Toronto Star contributing editor
Jeanne Beker , arguably Toronto’s most famous fashion personality, has joined the Toronto Star ’s stable of writers. In her...
Food & Drink
It’s official: Duggan’s Brewery has served its last pint
Not long ago, it seemed as though brew and gastropubs were on the rise in Toronto, but a couple of recent closures are giving us...
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“Toronto is the centre of the universe. Let’s just admit it and move on”—the Star’s not afraid to go there
An opinion piece with an opening like that is destined to raise a few eyebrows—and some blood pressure outside of the 416—but...
Food & Drink
Toronto might be moving to food-cart sanity—if province, city hall and restaurant owners let it happen
The infamous Toronto à la Cart program is finally winding down—or, more accurately, dying an unlamented death after becoming...
City News
2010 was great year for Toronto’s daily newspapers—relatively speaking
Maybe on-line media isn’t the death knell for newspapers after all. According to the latest survey from Newspaper Audience...
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Food & Drink
MPP Rosario Marchese floats private member’s bill destined to make Doug Ford very, very angry
Only days after the City of Toronto voted not to further restrict the sale of sugary pop through vending machines on city...
City News
Toronto basketball phenom Myck Kabongo shows his skills south of the border
The Toronto Star ’s Royson James has been on the basketball beat of late, following Canada’s top talents as they pursue their...
City News
BREAKING NEWS! Doug Ford really doesn’t like the Toronto Star
Ever since the Toronto Star ran that article about Rob Ford abusing a young football player—something later explicitly and...
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City News
Toronto Star gets a bit creepy over Earth Hour
The dividing line between public citizens and private individuals can be murky for any media, and there’s bound to be a slip-up...
City News
Five things we learned from the Star’s voyeuristic reporting about Rob Ford’s itinerary
Mayor Rob Ford has, thus far, tried hard to keep his personal itinerary a secret. We’re not quite sure why, but now that the...
City News
List week at the Toronto Star proves to be an exercise in click-tastic banality
We’re not quite sure why, but this week is list week at the Toronto Star . The project appears to have no real rhyme or...
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What are the chances that Toronto’s newspapers will go all digital?
News came out on Friday that the Montreal daily La Presse has a plan to embrace the Internet era with gusto: according to reports...
City News
Bay Street advises Leafs coach: stop berating your players in public
Berating your employees in public isn’t an effective management strategy. Who’da thunk it? Well, local corporate management...
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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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