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Dear Urban Diplomat: please provide some winter wear etiquette for those enormous puffy coats that take up half the streetcar
Dear Urban Diplomat, It seems like puffy coats with oversized fur-fringed hoods are all the rage again this season. I understand...
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City News
New poll shows Torontonians’ hate of LRTs has been greatly exaggerated
Since election day, the debate over transit in Toronto has been reduced to a logical fallacy: people voted for Rob Ford . Ford...
City News
Last night’s budget consultations reveal Rob Ford’s biggest foe: roller derby squads
Last night saw two rounds of budget consultation—that’s half of all the public meetings Toronto’s going to get this...
City News
Our Fare Lady: Q&A with Karen Stinz, the newly appointed TTC chair
Complaints about TTC customer service, possible strikes, delays—Stintz says she’s ready to take it all on You’re one of few...
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City News
Oshawa mayor wanted Toronto’s Transit City money to fund expansion of the 407
The city of Oshawa, fresh from electing a man to city council without knowing he couldn’t take the job, is now in an uproar over...
City News
A sad end to 30 bizarre, horrible hours in Toronto
Starting yesterday morning and moving on into today, Toronto has had a 30-hour period that can only be described as tragic and...
City News
Confidence-inspiring TTC budget found $24 million with haste and blue pen
The way that Rob Ford and Karen Stintz hastily announced and then de-announced the TTC fare hike left a lot of city hall observers...
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City News
TTC fare hike dead in the water: city finds cash to freeze riders’ transit costs
Yesterday we said the optics of cutting taxes on motorists while raising the price of public transit are “so bad it’s hard to...
City News
Proposed TTC fare hike works out to pretty much the same amount as cutting the vehicle registration tax
Rob Ford ’s first budget as mayor says a lot about where the city is heading over the next four years. The list of cuts...
City News
Rob Ford introduces his first budget. Here are the highlights and lowlights
As we’ve already mentioned , Rob Ford introduced his budget at a morning press conference. There will be arguments aplenty over...
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City News
Early reports from the Ford budget: TTC fares going up by 10 cents in 21 days
At his Monday-morning press conference announcing the new city budget, Rob Ford is rolling out some of the details of a...
City News
Will Toronto’s rushed 2011 budget have major cuts? Depends on what your definition of “major” is
City staff are busy trying to put a budget together now that the mayor has directed them to find a way to freeze property...
City News
Province and TTC might save face, Eglinton LRT
Stories of the death of Transit City have been greatly exaggerated, according to today’s papers. The Star tells us that it looks...
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Five things we learned from Rob Ford’s year-end interview with the Globe
The mayor’s first big meeting with city council was a marathon affair in which he got everything he wanted . Rob Ford ’s plan...
City News
Toronto’s war on the streetcar claims another victim: the sky
With Rob Ford ’s mayoral victory, it’s become clear that Toronto can have mass transit only so long as it meets two important...
City News
Rob Ford’s to-do list for today: slash budgets, cut taxes, declare TTC an essential service
Toronto’s city council tackles three of Rob Ford ’s biggest priorities today: cutting councillors’ office...
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TTC offering free New Year’s service again this year—only the event is going unsponsored
Good news, everyone: the TTC will offer its usual free ride home for revellers after the clock strikes midnight this New Year. In...
City News
Five things we learned from the Globe’s interview with Karen Stintz
Some gigs at city hall may be cushy, but explaining to angry urbanites why Transit City had to be killed isn’t one of...
City News
Death of Transit City leads to surprisingly widespread grieving
We already knew that the allies of former mayor David Miller were angry over the announced death of Transit City and getting ready...
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On its second day of work, council gets down to the important stuff: food and bruised egos
If yesterday was any indication, Rob Ford is in for a long four years. As the council met to approve choices for who got what...
City News
What else can we say: Oshawa man abandons city council seat to keep TTC gig
This story leaves us wondering just how cushy, exactly, the average TTC job really is. Apparently, nobody explained to Mike...
City News
Rob Ford meets with the anti-Ford, aka Dalton McGuinty
Rob Ford and Dalton McGuinty are about as different politicians are one could find working within a single kilometre of each...
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Have the Ford Wars just begun? Council’s left is ready to fight for Transit City
With Rob Ford ’s announcement today that “Transit City is over, ladies and gentlemen,” it looks like the first big battle of...
City News
Mayor Rob Ford: “Transit City is over”
Rob Ford’s first few hours as mayor sure have been busy. As the dailies are reporting, Ford met with TTC chief general manager...
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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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