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How that disposable pamphlet of infotainment that’s an inescapable part of our daily commute—a.k.a. Metro—is now the most-read paper in the country
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and Metro ’s Church Street newsroom is quiet and empty. By now, reporters at every other paper...
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Sheppard subway poised to eat the TTC chief’s job—and maybe Karen Stintz and streetcars, too
The big story this morning from the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail is that the mayor’s office—either Rob Ford himself or...
City News
Provincial Liberals blame Rob Ford for GTA transit woes; we admire the province’s chutzpah
As they gear up for the October election, the provincial Liberals have devised a simple plan: reduce their vulnerability to...
City News
The TTC’s latest publicity problem? An employee urinating outside Runnymede station—or not
TTC workers behaving badly barely deserves to be news anymore, but the latest example to come to light is kind of hard to ignore:...
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TTC inks an advertising deal—cue station naming rights bonanza (or not)
The TTC got its advertising deal . On Wednesday, the cash-strapped transit agency approved a 12-year, $342-million contract with...
City News
Former TTC general manager David Gunn thinks Toronto’s transit plans are off the rails
David Gunn may have been invited to Toronto to share a few words of advice with TTC chair Karen Stintz and Mayor Rob Ford on...
City News
Rider, can you spare 15 cents? TTC looks to charge for text notifications
In a move consistent with a Rob Ford–led city hall that never misses an opportunity for cost savings—no matter how small—the...
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Sheppard Subway extension gets a half-billion dollars more expensive; meanwhile, brothers Ford get upset
If Gordon Chong suddenly decided to organize, say, a parade this summer , we’re pretty sure Rob Ford wouldn’t want to...
City News
Dalton McGuinty is urging a refund if GO trains are delayed—provided commuters (read: voters) like the idea
Apparently, Dalton McGuinty is proposing to run the government like a pizza delivery van (at least, so says the Toronto Star) : 20...
City News
Air Canada and Canada Post on strike, locked out and about to get the TTC treatment
When the Interwebs received word that Canada Post workers were ready to start rotating strikes, the jokes were both predictable...
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Union Station makeover hailed as unprecedented, amazing and complex—or, simply, a “big dig”
One of the main reasons we like Porter Air and the Toronto Island Airport —aside from, of course, its proximity to downtown—is...
Real Estate News
Waterfront T.O. tizzy turns out to be nothing more than a typo
Sometimes even the backing of governments that actually have power in Canada (read: not Toronto) isn’t enough to keep a project...
City News
Presto cards are coming to the TTC (finally), pushing Toronto transit into the late 20th century
One of the stranger fights that plagued the last few months of David Miller ’s mayoral tenure was between Toronto and Queen’s...
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Ford’s hand-picked Sheppard Subway quarterback starts calling his own shots
Gordon Chong , now the chair of Toronto Transit Infrastructure Ltd ., caused a bit of a stir over the weekend by telling the...
City News
A young Toronto programmer designed a brilliant app using raw intel from the TTC. Now, if only city hall would give him more data
A few years ago , the TTC did something surprisingly cool. It met with its crankiest critics—Toronto’s transit-obsessed...
City News
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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Five things we learned from last night’s garbage debate
Newbie councillor Josh Matlow has spent the last six months very carefully straddling council’s middle, taking a calculated...
City News
TTC rolls out service cuts, to transit riders’ chagrin
The service cuts the TTC announced earlier this year came into effect across the city on Sunday, meaning many bus routes will be...
City News
City’s deal with the police union could blow a(nother) huge hole in the budget
The Toronto police force’s already bloated budget just ballooned a little bigger. Word is that Toronto Police Service Board and...
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Astro Boy: Q&A with Ray Jayawardhana, a U of T prof in search of life on other planets
Already famous on Earth, U of T astronomy prof Ray Jayawardhana searches for life on other planets So, everyone calls you RayJay?...
City News
New TTC customer service chief from U.K. to replace old customer service chief, nobody
Yesterday afternoon the TTC announced the hiring of their first chief of customer service, fulfilling one of the recommendations...
City News
Could a Tea Party–esque movement be good for Toronto?
With federal and provincial elections looming, there’s a good chance that Torontonians will have conservative leaders all the...
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No-nonsense addition to the TTC brain trust hates ideas from the left and right equally
With Rob Ford ’s plan to expand the TTC’s subway system along the Sheppard line and replace the Scarborough RT with an...
City News
The housekeepers revolt: behind the labour dispute at the Royal York Hotel
In an era of decline for organized labour, an aggressive hospitality workers’ union is determined to turn menial labour into...
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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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