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Toronto Hydro’s friendly reminder with your latest bill: how not to get electrocuted
Last week, two dogs were electrocuted on a sidewalk at the corner of Queen East and Parliament streets. A police officer who tried...
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Real Estate News
Hate winter? The people who take care of Toronto’s 5,000 km of pipes agree
Here’s a surprisingly interesting story from the National Post about plumbing —no, seriously! Basically, the winter of...
City News
If Ford Nation can’t get cash out of Premier McGuinty, could they squeeze it out of Premier Hudak?
We mentioned last week that Mayor Rob Ford is threatening to campaign against the Liberal government if Dalton McGuinty doesn’t...
City News
CrackBerry crackdown: TTC throwing book at drivers using cellphones (but nobody’s sure what, exactly, is happening)
Nobody likes to see TTC operators breaking the law by using cellphones while they drive, but the headlines this morning suggest...
City News
Fare evaders cost TTC $22 million in 2010
Whether they want subways or streetcars, nearly all Torontonians seems to agree that the city needs more public transit. Just one...
City News
First poll since the election gives Rob Ford a 60 per cent approval rating—but people love his policies even more
Rob Ford won the 2010 election with 47 per cent of the vote, and has since entered a nice stretch of political honeymoon, where...
City News
Almost by accident, Ford’s budget squeeze pays off for Donlands residents opposed to second subway exit
As part of the spirit of restraint that’s come over the city since Rob Ford came to power, the TTC has had to tighten its...
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City News
Mayor Rob Ford discovers his own personal spending problem, asks the province for $150 million
During the election campaign—and up to the present—the brothers Rob and Doug Ford have made it clear that Toronto has a...
City News
Conservatives loudly trumpet stimulus spending—just not in Toronto
Yesterday, Conservative MPs streamed out of Ottawa and across the country to tout the spending they’d done under the Canadian...
City News
Reaction roundup: Ford’s private subway financing faces its first critics
Mayor Rob Ford ’s plan to finance an extension of the Sheppard subway line with private money and higher taxes along the...
City News
Most unsurprising news of the day: Ford wants private cash to help build subways
Ever since Rob Ford won the election and declared subways for all, the big question has been where the city would find the money...
City News
Ford achieves 0.02 per cent of his promised savings with council pay freeze
Toronto City Council voted to forego a scheduled pay increase this week, and the vote wasn’t particularly close: 39-3. Just...
City News
Could Stephen Harper win Toronto seats with TTC cash?
Judging by the amount of ink that has already been spilled over a potential federal election , it’s not too early to start...
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City News
Where are they now? Catching up with Toronto’s former mayoral candidates
As Rocco Rossi reminded us with his surprise announcement last week, the candidates of the 2010 mayoral race, who so preoccupied...
City News
Toronto Transit Commission workers’ union properly reads the mood of the city for once: no strikes during contract negotiations, says leader Bob Kinnear
TTC union chief Bob Kinnear made a speech yesterday that demonstrated a quality we haven’t seen from the union since the last...
City News
Rob Ford’s Transit City II: how will the mayor get it from campaign promise to reality?
When Mayor Rob Ford announced that “Transit City is over” and that he was replacing it with “Transportation City” (gutting...
City News
New streetcar yard coming to Ashbridges Bay, whether the local councillor likes it or not
As part of the modernization of the streetcar fleet, the TTC decided that it needed a new storage and maintenance shed down at...
City News
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...
City News
TTC says some bus lines saved; Toronto Roller Derby still left in the dark
Is it too early to start calling it the Ford Two-Step? Between the quickly rethought fare hikes and the announcement that the TTC...
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Three TTC employees fired for texting while driving public transit vehicles
At this point, it’s not even a surprise: TTC driver caught operating a vehicle dangerously and/or in violation of the Ontario...
City News
Karen Stintz wants to crack down on bikes on sidewalks
We can’t imagine why Karen Stintz , who’s got work up to her eyeballs with the restructuring of the TTC under Rob Ford ’s...
City News
Proposed TTC cuts to affect 250,000 riders
As the February 2 TTC meeting approaches, we’re getting more and more data about just how big the proposed cut to the city’s...
City News
Should Queen’s Park run the TTC instead of city hall? Apparently, it’s up for discussion
Reporters who get obsessed with obscure matters are our favourites because it’s impossible to tell where that kind of tenacious...
City News
TTC puts second entrance to Donlands station exactly where it wanted to in the first place
Those with long memories for somewhat obscure controversies might remember a little kerfuffle ensued when the TTC planned to add a...
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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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