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What smart, innovative cities are doing to combat gridlock (Toronto not included)
Believe it or not, Toronto isn’t the only city dealing with traffic congestion (paging Los Angeles ). Big or small, old or...
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Ford places hold on traffic light votes, proving again that yes, there really are political parties at city hall
The latest example of the increasingly partisan nature of city hall—literally, the division of city council into separate...
City News
How running became the city’s collective obsession
Last year I turned 30, broke up with my long-term boyfriend and moved into a tiny apartment for one. The domestic vision I’d had...
Real Estate News
Rejoice, Roncesvalles: the construction has finally come to a close
Up until this past weekend, the word “Roncesvalles” had basically been synonymous with “road construction,” or perhaps...
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Conservatives call for licensing for cyclists as bikes-versus-cars rhetoric ramps up (again)
In the wake of a near-fatal bike-on-pedestrian crash off Dundas Street earlier this week, a number of noted Toronto right-wingers...
Real Estate News
Kristyn Wong-Tam is pushing an ambitious revitalization plan for Yonge Street—but will it fly at Rob Ford’s city hall?
Yonge Street dollar stores, strip clubs and head shops be warned: an ambitious new plan for revamping Toronto’s main drag is...
City News
Board of Trade calls for road tolls; Doug Ford calls for a two-tier model for traffic congestion (uh, literally)
Another year, another group calling for provincial and municipal leaders to consider road tolls to cut down on congestion in the...
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Public works committee votes to scrap Jarvis Street bike lanes
Jarvis bike lanes, we hardly knew ye. Yesterday, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee voted in favour of removing eight...
City News
Eglinton residents worried that Transit City’s crosstown LRT won’t make the streets any prettier
The NDP announced yesterday morning that its election platform would include funds for the TTC (and other transit systems across...
City News
A chunk of the Gardiner Expressway drops off—but it’s no big deal, right?
Apparently, the Gardiner is falling. The 55-year-old expressway seems to have a...
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Doug Ford wants charity events off city streets and, well, put somewhere else
In the final months leading up to the election, Rob Ford said he’d prefer to move marathons off city streets —apparently, the...
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Costco gas station is causing massive traffic snarls, proposes to fix things by making them worse
Everybody knows what a Boxing Day door-crasher sale at a big box store is like, right? Now imagine that chaos, only with a crowd...
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Mike Layton promises to start his own cycling committee—sadly, tree house not included
Rob Ford may be trying to kill off most of the advisory committees and task forces at city hall , but some more committee-friendly...
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Toronto leads the country in bike-on-car collisions—wait, really?
The city recently released a report about last year’s data on cyclist collisions with cars and pedestrians, and the statistics...
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The Jarvis bike lane brouhaha was such fractious fun last summer that city hall is bringing it back
Last year’s mayoral election was chock full of wacky issues—the 48-hour scandal over whether Rob Ford likes immigrants or not...
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What the heck is happening on Finch?
Finch Avenue West is one of the lingering casualties of Rob Ford’s war on Transit City. One of the busiest bus routes in...
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Welcome to Toronto the Rude
We swear at each other from cars, bark at each other on the TTC and yell into our cellphones. How a supposedly livable city...
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The numbers are in: Jarvis bike lane adds one to four minutes of travel time, increases bike traffic by 30 per cent
Anyone who was awake during the spring and summer months leading up to the 2010 mayoral election in Toronto may remember the...
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407 extension approved with a blank cheque, in latest example of Liberal seat-protection
As part of its recent spending restraint, the Liberal government of Ontario, led by Dalton McGuinty , truncated its plans to...
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CrackBerry crackdown: TTC throwing book at drivers using cellphones (but nobody’s sure what, exactly, is happening)
Nobody likes to see TTC operators breaking the law by using cellphones while they drive, but the headlines this morning suggest...
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More gravy found! This time, it’s $2 million per year in the Toronto Police payroll
Somehow, we suspect this won’t set quite as many heads rolling as the ongoing Toronto Community Housing fiasco : the Toronto...
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Drivers vs. cyclists: the answer to road peace in our time is “don’t take it personally”
Ah, March 1st. The unofficial beginning of spring in this part of southern Canada, as the thermometer starts to spend more and...
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Reaction roundup: Ford’s private subway financing faces its first critics
Mayor Rob Ford ’s plan to finance an extension of the Sheppard subway line with private money and higher taxes along the...
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New streetcar yard coming to Ashbridges Bay, whether the local councillor likes it or not
As part of the modernization of the streetcar fleet, the TTC decided that it needed a new storage and maintenance shed down at...
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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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
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon