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The 10 biggest moments in Toronto transportation in the last 50 years
The trains, roads, strikes and spats that mattered most
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How the TTC keeps tiny delays from turning into giant transit disasters
Inside the room where the TTC solves routine transit crises
City News
A look at one man’s Lego tribute to TTC streetcars
Trevor Parkins-Sciberras built his own miniature Toronto transit museum, brick by brick
City News
“It’s a necessary evil”: Scarborough commuters on the real cost of the subway extension
With Rob Ford no longer mayor and the Gardiner debate temporarily settled, there's now officially nothing in Toronto politics more...
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City News
Q&A: Andy Byford, the TTC’s top executive, staunchest defender and chief apology specialist
Most Toronto transit riders have experienced at least one moment of hopelessness about the state of the TTC—but Andy Byford...
City News
How a brand-new TTC streetcar arrives in Toronto
The TTC's next-generation streetcars, of which there will eventually be 204, are still a head-turning rarity on Toronto's...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: can I hate my fellow TTC riders for not giving up seats for me and my toddler?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a young dad, and I take my 16-month-old son to and from daycare on the subway during rush hour. Is it...
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City News
Twitter makes the same two jokes about the TTC’s mysterious subway ooze
You may be wondering about the the oily mystery liquid currently leaking onto subway tracks at College Station and preventing...
City News
Could the Scarborough RT really become a High Line–style elevated park?
THE IDEA Last Friday at city hall, TTC CEO Andy Byford surprised city councillors by reminding them that his staff are still...
City News
“We got our LCBO, so we’re good”: Liberty Villagers on their neighbourhood’s bad rap
Liberty Village takes a lot of flack, and it's easy to see why. It's a heavily developed condo community that's cut off from the...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: am I a bad person for leaving my newspaper on the subway?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m new to the city, and I read Metro during my morning commute. Am I littering if I leave my used copy on...
City News
A $27 train ride to the airport won’t ruin Toronto—but delaying building the transit we actually need will
Ultimately, it doesn't matter what Metrolinx charges people to ride the Union Pearson Express, Toronto's soon-to-be-completed...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: am I a jerk for skipping the TTC farebox line?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was in the Queen subway station recently and encountered a long lineup, so I did that move where you sneak...
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Suicide continues to be a problem on Toronto’s subway lines
—The number of suicide attempts, including nine deaths, that have occurred on TTC subway lines so far in 2014. At a meeting on...
City News
Museum Station makes the
Guardian
’s list of the world’s most beautiful metro stations, somehow
Museum Station may not even be the most beautiful station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line (ever seen Dupont Station...
City News
If John Tory is elected, will he really be able to build SmartTrack?
THE IDEA Since he unveiled it in late May, SmartTrack has been the centrepiece of John Tory ’s One Toronto transit...
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If Olivia Chow is elected, will she really be able to make her transit plan a reality?
THE IDEA Unlike the single-idea transit plans of the other leading mayoral candidates—John Tory’s SmartTrack and Doug Ford’s...
City News
The demise of the depressing bus station at Dundas and Bay could be at hand
Tuesday's headlines about a planned new office-tower complex near Union Station tended to focus on the fancy elevated park and new...
City News
Listen to Philip Preville talk gridlock with Newstalk 1010’s Jerry Agar
This month's feature on the outrageous political pandering, incompetence and inertia that feeds Toronto's gridlock problem has...
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The TTC’s new life-sized streetcar simulator is not a toy—but it looks like one
Halfway down a long corridor inside the TTC's Hillcrest facility, on Bathurst Street, there's a room marked “streetcar...
City News
Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
City News
Rob Ford had some trouble staying upright on the subway on Monday
This Globe and Mail video of Rob Ford riding the Sheppard subway during his public-transit photo-op on Monday is curious for a few...
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Good smells, big windows and 13 other things people love about the TTC’s new streetcars
The first two of the TTC's anticipated fleet of new streetcars—complete with low floors, bike racks, a new proof-of-payment...
City News
Rob Ford’s “subway expansion plan” adds to Toronto’s growing pile of fantasy TTC maps
At a press conference this morning, hours after his subway-expansion annoucment had already leaked online , Rob Ford told...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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