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TTC finally seems to have done something right: new streetcars are pretty cool (but not quite pimptastic)
This past weekend the TTC put one of its long-awaited new streetcars on public display and, sadly, it looks nothing like the...
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Rob Ford won’t get an advance on surplus transit funds, but clings to his Sheppard subway fantasy anyway
Mayor Rob Ford ’s dreams of a privately financed Sheppard subway extension have been on life support for some time now, and news...
City News
Councillor Pam McConnell gets into TTC fare dispute, handles incident like an adult
The eagle-eyed Toronto Sun devoted a 300-word news story to the following sequence of events that occurred last weekend: (1) Pam...
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Quoted: Joe Mihevc is very, very sure the Sheppard subway is doomed
“All signs point to Sheppard being dead—D-E-A-D, dead—and I think the only thing that hasn’t happened is the news becoming...
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Rob Ford’s stance of drug testing for TTC employees actually sounds kind of reasonable
Wow, Rob Ford sounds surprisingly cool on the issue of drug testing for TTC employees (unlike, say, his surprisingly uncool...
City News
TTC drivers are suffering from the dreaded 2.5-hour workday
The TTC voted to introduce random drug testing for staff in response to an apparently persistent substance abuse problem. Despite...
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TTC drivers and other staff could be facing randomized drug testing if the board gets its way
Following an August crash that left one TTC passenger dead, the transit commission is considering instituting random drug tests...
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TTC to add exciting new ways to berate management
The TTC announced a series of measures on Thursday aimed at improving customer service and the overall “rider experience.”...
City News
Apparently, TTC riders aren’t scared off public transit by things that haven’t happened yet
The TTC recently broke its record for single-day ridership, with 1.71 million rides on September 15, and ridership is expected to...
City News
Can Transit City be revived? Apparently, Josh Matlow thinks so
Councillor Josh Matlow wondered aloud this weekend if Transit City might be resurrected, citing Mayor Rob Ford ’ s recent...
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In an attempt to appear connected to its ridership, the TTC asks passengers to name subway stops
The TTC is naming the stops along the Spadina extension (which you may never ride), and they want you to help. The transit...
City News
Reaction Roundup: sailing metaphors, locker room talk and ignoring Toronto. The skinny on what happened at last night’s provincial election debate
Given the amount of chatter generated by Dalton McGuinty’ s erratic hand gestures last night, it would seem that the provincial...
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Toronto Sun publishes glorified “Wanted” poster of a man freeloading on the TTC
The Toronto Sun is seeking the identity of a man photographed clinging to the back of a TTC bus. As impressed as we are with the...
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City council meeting is a day of reckoning for some, a manicure for others
Depending who you ask, yesterday was either a “day of reckoning” for the city of Toronto, or a day to debate “barely a...
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Adam Giambrone dazzles us with numbers, but stops short of going for the throat
In a column in this week’s Now, Adam Giambrone vents some frustrations about the TTC’s plans to pile more passengers onto...
City News
TTC approves service cuts (or how riding the rocket just got a little squishier)
News broke recently that, apparently, it’s possible for TTC vehicles to be more crowded than they already are at rush hour. The...
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New streetcars will put you face to face with those pesky public nail clippers—and generally be bigger and more comfortable
Transit etiquette, it seems, is at an all-time low considering that news of the TTC’s new fleet of streetcars comes with advice...
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Cops found TTC bus driver in possession of pot—right after lethal crash
By now, we’ve lost track of the number of TTC drivers alleged to have driven while under the influence—and the whole issue...
City News
Latest StatsCan report confirms all our stereotypes about commuting in the GTA
Statistics Canada’s latest report about commuting across Canada came out yesterday, and there are lot of interesting goodies in...
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TTC ridership setting new records, despite all the griping from riders (and newspaper columnists)
Bouncing off of the latest Statistics Canada data, Matt Gurney writes in the National Post that the long travel times associated...
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Those crazy kids made it after all: former TTC chief Adam Giambrone to marry long-time partner this fall
It’s fair to say that this is not a storybook romance, but that’s no reason not to congratulate former TTC chair Adam...
City News
TTC to ban passengers who assault transit staff
In the aftermath of a particularly vicious assault on a TTC worker last Monday, the TTC is going to try to lower the boom on...
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Can the Internet do a better job of managing Toronto’s transit system?
We know how much Rob Ford loves outsourcing. But how does he feel about crowd-sourcing? Given the recent confusion over the basic...
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Cell service on the subway: good news may be coming in the fall
More than a year has passed since the TTC announced it was going to try to bring cellphone service to the subway. Back...
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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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