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Dear Urban Diplomat: how should I fight people sneaking onto the streetcar without paying?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I ride the King streetcar every day, and lately I’ve noticed people sneaking on through the rear doors...
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VIDEO: watch a TTC worker’s embittered retirement rant
Most employees keep their work-related frustrations to themselves. Former TTC worker Ron Mitchell is not one of those people. He...
City News
The TTC says today’s rush hour is going to be a mess for streetcar riders
The TTC has just announced that it’s going to be short about 50 streetcars during this evening’s commute (there are normally...
City News
Reminder: it’s New Year’s Eve, and the TTC is free to ride
TTC fares may be going up tomorrow, but New Year’s partiers won't need to worry about any of that tonight. That's because the...
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QUOTED: Mayoral candidate David Soknacki on 2014’s TTC fare hike
—Declared mayoral candidate and former city budget chief David Soknacki , in a blog post about 2014’s TTC fare...
City News
See the TTC’s first new bendy bus make its maiden voyage on Bathurst Street
Bus travel in Toronto entered a more flexible era at Bathurst Station this morning, when the TTC celebrated the maiden voyage of...
City News
You’ll never believe how ancient the TTC’s technology actually is (there’s a blacksmith involved)
Fresh off an apology for Monday morning's awful commute, TTC CEO Andy Byford appeared on CBC's Metro Morning today to talk about...
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The Spadina Subway Extension is behind schedule—but at least it’s actually being built
Here's a phrase you never want to hear from TTC CEO Andy Byford : "The project is facing a serious schedule challenge."...
City News
Reaction Roundup: what Toronto is saying about Friday’s shooting at Queen station
On Friday night, an 18-year-old man was shot by police inside Queen subway station . The incident conjures unpleasant memories of...
City News
Karen Stintz is giving up her place at the head of the TTC
Councillor Karen Stintz , who has been the chair of the TTC since the beginning of Rob Ford 's mayoralty, announced on Friday that...
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Five things we learned from Michael Schabas’s critique of Toronto’s public-transit plans
Arguing about public transit has become a parlour game in Toronto, where every month seems to bring a new proposal for an...
City News
QUOTED: Board of Trade boss Carol Wilding on why Toronto needs better transit planning—not just a Scarborough subway
— Carol Wilding , the president and CEO of the Toronto Region Board of Trade, on why the city’s transit planning process needs...
City News
The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
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A mesmerizing GIF that sums up one all-important way that the TTC trumps cars
Everyone knows that taking public transit helps reduce congestion, but knowing and seeing are two different things. This...
City News
TTC fare hike is probably coming just when no one wants it—in January
Something to contemplate as you wait on the crammed subway platform this evening: the Toronto Transit Commission is looking to...
City News
PHOTO: How Bloor-Yonge station will look if the TTC renames its subway lines
TTC spokesman Brad Ross posted a pair of images last night showing the Bloor-Yonge station’s current signage (top), and a spiffy...
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Six common reactions to the proposal to rename Toronto subway lines
In two weeks, the TTC board will consider replacing the names of Toronto subway lines with numbers to make things less confusing...
City News
Sunshine List: how much Rob Ford, Paul Godfrey and Chris Spence earned in 2012
Each year, Queen’s Park releases the sunshine list, a catalogue of all the Ontario public servants who made $100,000 or...
City News
Q&A: Toronto’s chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat on public transit,
The Voice
and taking a pay cut
You left a rather prosperous job as a partner at a private firm six months ago to become Toronto’s chief planner, and you took a...
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Tim Hudak does his best Rob Ford impression for the Toronto Board of Trade
Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak sounded eerily like his good buddy Rob Ford yesterday in a speech to the Toronto...
City News
Adam Vaughan vs. Rob Ford’s ultra-cliquey executive committee
For his latest attempt to mess with Rob Ford, inveterate city council pot-stirrer Adam Vaughan tried this week to join the...
City News
Rob Ford and Karen Stintz argue over whether he phoned her
Just when we thought city hall couldn’t get any more childish, Rob Ford and Karen Stintz decide to stand in the same room and...
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Philip Preville: How the crumbling Gardiner became a symbol for all that ails Toronto
While city hall spent a decade debating what to do with the Gardiner—Demolish it? Bury it? Raise it?—the expressway fell into...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I offer my streetcar seat without offending anyone?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently offered my streetcar seat to a woman I was convinced was a mom-to-be, then smiled cherubically at...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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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