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Dear Urban Diplomat: am I a bad person for leaving my newspaper on the subway?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m new to the city, and I read Metro during my morning commute. Am I littering if I leave my used copy on...
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City News
Smoother traffic is only the beginning: John Tory’s parking crackdown will change the way Toronto works
Attention Toronto drivers: your heaping helping of schadenfreude is ready. For all the times you’ve ever been stuck behind an...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: am I a jerk for skipping the TTC farebox line?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was in the Queen subway station recently and encountered a long lineup, so I did that move where you sneak...
City News
Suicide continues to be a problem on Toronto’s subway lines
—The number of suicide attempts, including nine deaths, that have occurred on TTC subway lines so far in 2014. At a meeting on...
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City News
Museum Station makes the
Guardian
’s list of the world’s most beautiful metro stations, somehow
Museum Station may not even be the most beautiful station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line (ever seen Dupont Station...
City News
If John Tory is elected, will he really be able to build SmartTrack?
THE IDEA Since he unveiled it in late May, SmartTrack has been the centrepiece of John Tory ’s One Toronto transit...
City News
If Olivia Chow is elected, will she really be able to make her transit plan a reality?
THE IDEA Unlike the single-idea transit plans of the other leading mayoral candidates—John Tory’s SmartTrack and Doug Ford’s...
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City News
If Doug Ford is elected, will he actually be able to build all those subways?
THE IDEA If Doug Ford ’s transit plan has one thing going for it, it’s simplicity. He wants to do one thing, and one thing...
City News
Olivia Chow’s campaign says John Tory’s transit-funding proposal falls short
—The maximum amount of revenue that could be generated through tax increment financing (also known as TIF) for John Tory ’s...
City News
Could Doug Ford really sell city real estate to fund his subway plan?
THE IDEA Doug Ford , like his brother Rob before him, is busy promoting a $9-billion, 32-kilometre subway plan that, according to...
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City News
John Tory’s SmartTrack will probably cost a lot more to build than he’s willing to admit
—The amount John Tory would need to spend on tunnelling alone in order to deliver his promised SmartTrack transit...
City News
Doug Ford makes yet another subway promise he can’t possibly keep
At a press conference this afternoon, according to the Star , Doug Ford made a major adjustment to the transit plan he inherited...
City News
Listen to Philip Preville talk gridlock with Newstalk 1010’s Jerry Agar
This month's feature on the outrageous political pandering, incompetence and inertia that feeds Toronto's gridlock problem has...
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City News
Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
City News
Rob Ford had some trouble staying upright on the subway on Monday
This Globe and Mail video of Rob Ford riding the Sheppard subway during his public-transit photo-op on Monday is curious for a few...
City News
Good smells, big windows and 13 other things people love about the TTC’s new streetcars
The first two of the TTC's anticipated fleet of new streetcars—complete with low floors, bike racks, a new proof-of-payment...
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Rob Ford’s “subway expansion plan” adds to Toronto’s growing pile of fantasy TTC maps
At a press conference this morning, hours after his subway-expansion annoucment had already leaked online , Rob Ford told...
City News
Watch Andy Byford talk about the lesser-known features of Toronto’s new streetcars
With only a little more than a week to go before the first of the TTC's next-generation streetcars goes into service on Spadina...
City News
Rob Ford announces support for proposed TTC improvements, including some that would reverse his own cuts
At a campaign press conference this morning, Rob Ford announced his support for most of the items on a list of proposed...
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Life
10 apps you might not know about that make living in Toronto better
There are some things in life that never stop being annoying: getting rained on, or forgetting to pack your lunch again, or that...
City News
Rob Ford says unemployed people don’t need transit
At a rambling campaign press conference on Tuesday, Rob Ford made a comment that, even by his standards, was pretty bizarre: “If...
City News
Everybody hates Adelaide Street’s new bike lane
The official opening of Adelaide Street's new separated bike lane should have been a moment worth celebrating for Toronto's...
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Rob Ford revives his war on all forms of transportation except cars
The mayor was in classic form on Thursday, as he told reporters that he still intends to make good on his age-old promise to rid...
City News
Answers at last: why the King streetcar is so awful
The King streetcar is the busiest of the TTC's surface routes. Every weekday, some 60,000 passengers use the line, making it more...
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Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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