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Karen Stintz kills council’s buzz with her plans for the saved transit cash
By our count, the dizzying thrill of victory for council’s lefties and centrists lasted less than 24 hours. TTC chair—and...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: do people have the right to eat a meal on the streetcar?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I get queasy easily, and I can’t stand it when people eat food on the streetcar. I’ve seen passengers...
City News
In the wake of the budget defeat, Rob Ford compares his opponents to dogs
After a large portion of his proposed budget was dismantled, Rob Ford, ever gracious, did what any classy politician would do: he...
City News
Toronto Board of Trade hops on the Ford-criticizing bandwagon
On the off-chance that Rob Ford is getting bored with all the criticism from citizens, councillors, the media (most media, at...
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Could a penny-pinching Queen’s Park force the Eglinton Crosstown above ground?
Last week, economist and former federal financial official Don Drummond delivered some unwelcome news for Ontario residents: a...
City News
TTC boss Karen Stintz masquerades as one of her own employees for reality TV
Rocking a wig and a killer nose ring as a disguise, Karen Stintz recently posed as an everyday transit worker, pulling shifts...
City News
Word is a great, big budget shortfall is looming in 2013
The 2012 budget hasn’t even gone before council, and already the Toronto Sun has moved on to 2013. Apparently, a city source...
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Rob Ford inspires local citizens—to try to bring Transit City back
The push to resurrect Transit City is picking up a modest amount of steam, courtesy of activist Joe Drew and the website...
City News
Public transit users will officially pay a premium to be stuffed into TTC vehicles like sardines
The TTC has approved a fare hike for 2012, meaning commuters will have to shell out an extra dime for the privilege of being...
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Rob Granatstein: why the city should sell off its assets—slowly but surely
To close the budget gap, Rob Ford wants to sell city assets. Good idea, bad timing. Even a novice real estate investor knows to...
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Gordon Chong can’t deliver his Sheppard subway report on time (he’s also unsure about his future with the project)
Poor Gordon Chong. The man who Rob Ford shouldered with the impossible task of making his Sheppard dream a reality is behind on...
City News
TTC is set to save busy bus routes by assuming a sweet, sweet budget surplus
Having discovered a magical budget surplus, the TTC could save service on some busy bus routes and delay cuts to others all the...
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Rob Ford’s decision to cancel Transit City now comes with a $65-million price tag
TTC riders forced to pay increased fares for decreased service might be just a little bit perturbed to know what their money is...
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Toronto media get very, very excited about an intoxicated couple making whoopee on the TTC
The Toronto Star dropped a cheeky “Ride the Rocket” joke; BlogTO played on the “mile-high club ; ” Newstalk 1010 spoke of...
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Sheppard subway needs a quick, cool $10 million to kick-start a private-public partnership
Apparently, the city’s (read: Rob Ford’ s) Sheppard subway dream could soon be a reality—just as long as the city is...
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Public transit is now going to be more crowded, less serviced and (likely) more expensive
With TTC vehicles about to get a little more crowded (or, you know, “friendlier”), Peter Milczyn is suggesting that a 15-cent...
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The Find: a decoration that reminds us what we like about the TTC (um, not the potential fare hikes)
The reliability of the TTC is a contentious issue, but most people would agree that the individual aesthetic of each subway stop...
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Transit funding 101: no money, mo’ problems
After digging through the numbers, municipal affairs blogger Matt Elliott has made a less-than-startling discovery: the more you...
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Metrolinx versus TTC: a public-private partnership for the Eglinton Crosstown?
The Toronto Star reports that Metrolinx is considering snubbing the TTC on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, opting instead for a...
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Rob Ford’s finance figures continue to look rather arbitrary—still, he won’t give up his apocalyptic budget rhetoric
The National Post referred to the most significant cuts in the proposed 2012 budget as “highlights,” which we find slightly...
City News
The intricacies of track work and other reasons the TTC sometimes sucks
“Why does a power problem at Davisville shut down pretty much the entire Yonge line?” a Torontoist reader asked, and the TTC...
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Metrolinx teases commuters with a downtown transit relief; but the TTC isn’t into it
The province’s transit authority is considering expediting the creation of a new downtown subway or light-rail line (or at...
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Buses cannot hold an infinite number of people—neither can streetcars or subways (even the Sheppard one)
All the talk of increased wait times and more crowded vehicles isn’t deterring Torontonians from riding the TTC—at least for...
Food & Drink
Rising rents on Queen East push out Red Rocket Coffee, which is moving to the Danforth instead
Leslieville’s Red Rocket Coffee has been forced to close up shop after its landlord doubled the rent to $49 per square...
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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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