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The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
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Real Estate News
King and John BIA wants a new “urban ballroom” and “cultural corridor” in downtown Toronto
The southeast corner of King and John has been targeted by the local BIA for improvement. Specifically, the neighbourhood group...
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Good Stuff Cheap: Five genius ways to save on everyday technology
Stop paying for cable or satellite: Hook up an antenna to your digital TV. If your old pole-mounted potato masher’s long gone, a...
City News
TTC fare hike dead in the water: city finds cash to freeze riders’ transit costs
Yesterday we said the optics of cutting taxes on motorists while raising the price of public transit are “so bad it’s hard to...
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Car-loving councillor Minnan-Wong wants to bring better bike lanes to Toronto—wait, what?
Back in the day, Denzil Minnan-Wong was about as anti-bike as any municipal politician could be; this guy (with a little help from...
City News
Province and TTC might save face, Eglinton LRT
Stories of the death of Transit City have been greatly exaggerated, according to today’s papers. The Star tells us that it looks...
Food & Drink
Today’s traffic problems not caused by LRT, but by beer
Toronto has brutal gridlock, which we generally attribute to a handful of reasons—bad roads, TTC woes and bad weather, to name a...
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City News
HOV lanes finally open on the QEW
With the Greater Toronto Area having one of the world’s longest commutes ( an average of 80 minutes ), weary travellers may...
City News
Bike lanes may not be coming to Toronto streets, but they are coming to Google Maps
Torontonians will soon find a new bike feature added to the popular Google Maps site, which will allow users to plan out...
Real Estate News
How to deal with the Gardiner Expressway: a history of solutions that have never come to pass
Dealing with the Gardiner Expressway is never going to be easy. Critics say it’s a costly eyesore that partially blocks access...
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City News
Comparing cab rates: Toronto has the 20th most expensive taxis in the world
We all know that taxis are expensive in Toronto, but today’s Globe goes one step further and proves it . According to the paper...
City News
Rocco Rossi’s latest pro-car battle cry: expressway on-ramps installed in 24 hours
Rocco Rossi doesn't just want to send traffic underneath the city —he wants to get it moving more quickly above the city, as...
City News
Tunnel vision jokes unavoidable as Rocco Rossi proposes an underground extension of the Allen Expressway
The Toronto mayoral race is shaping up to be a sprint between candidates proposing the biggest, most expensive projects that...
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Urban Diplomat: what to do when a cyclist is breaking the law with a toddler in tow
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was cycling behind a father with a toddler in a rear bike seat, and he was weaving in and out of...
City News
Darcy Allen Sheppard’s dad joins memorial bike ride, calls Toronto “toxic”
One year after his death, friends and family gathered in downtown Toronto to remember Darcy Allan Sheppard , the bike courier...
City News
Wild Thing: the story behind the Brick Works
The bucolic eco-paradise between Rosedale and the DVP almost never was. How big money and one ambitious entrepreneur remade the...
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Seven Long Years: How will David Miller be remembered?
As a kvetchy, largely ineffective do-gooder ultimately undone by the unionists who helped elect him Unless Joe Pantalone, the...
City News
All hail our cyclist overlords! Jarvis bike lanes going in; bike racks colonize Spadina
Most days, talk of Toronto's “war on the car” seems like so much overheated rhetoric. The vast majority of roads have no bike...
City News
Toronto road tolls go from abhorrent to approved: how’d that happen?
The Star reported on Saturday, and other papers have followed since, that the Toronto City Summit Alliance has released a new...
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All hell breaks loose during G20 protest at Queen and Spadina; TTC finally has reason for late streetcars
News is trickling in via Twitter and TV that a flare set off at Spadina and Queen West has shut down traffic, including all TTC...
City News
Wait times massive at Pearson Airport’s Toast! Café
Passengers travelling to Lester B. Pearson International Airport were told to expect "significant delays" today due to the arrival...
Real Estate News
North York’s Regent Park: Lawrence Heights revitalization, opposed by Rob Ford, passes committee unanimously
Last weekend, Rob Ford took some time to relax the way he likes best: by shouting into a bullhorn about the fat cats at city...
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Ford adviser: stop funding the TTC
Like most Torontonians, we hadn't heard of Mark Twohey until today, but that all changed when the Toronto Star 's bloggers dug up...
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Wait—street hockey is illegal in Toronto? No wonder our kids are fat
Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett was at Yonge and Dundas when Sidney Crosby scored the gold-medal goal for Canada back in...
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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
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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
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative