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Rob Ford sticks to his anti-labour strategy, quoting, well, himself (twice)
Union president Mark Ferguson is tossing the political hot potato back to Mayor Rob Ford, promising he won’t call for a strike...
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Unions continue to make it easy for Rob Ford to win the PR war
Sid Ryan, the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, is accusing Mayor Rob Ford of seeking potential scab workers in the...
City News
Jesse Brown: how big wireless companies, the banks, and even the actors’ union are keeping our mobile bills the highest in the world
Getting gouged by cellphone providers is such a routine part of life in Canada that it barely seems worth complaining about. Yet...
City News
Rob Ford plays the PR game in the early stages of labour negotiations with city unions
Sure, it’s still early in the game, but Rob Ford appears to be winning the public relations battle with the city’s...
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City document outlines stringent demands to unions, work stoppage pretty much inevitable
The Globe and Mail is reporting that the city’s list of demands to unionized workers “amounts to a fundamental overhaul of the...
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In quintessentially Canadian fashion, city staff prepare for looming lockout by learning to maintain hockey arenas
One sure sign things are going poorly at city hall: management types are learning to drive Zambonis. The Globe and Mail reports...
Real Estate News
Yurt of the Week: a photographic tour of an Occupy Toronto yurt
Toronto’s burgeoning anti-capitalist occupation has a new, albeit unlikely, icon—the humble yurt. A group of labour...
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St. Lawrence Centre workers locked out by management; is this a new era in Toronto labour relations?
We hate to break this news to our gentle readers, but apparently Rob Ford doesn't like unions. He really, really doesn't like...
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Reformed commie Giorgio Mammoliti can smell communism, and he doesn’t want its sour scent on his Facebook page
“I will be monitoring their comments and if I get a smell of communism, they’re off the page.” — Giorgio Mammoliti That...
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Nick Kouvalis, the man credited with building Ford Nation, is fomenting a revolution—Tea Party–style
Hey you. Yeah, you on the bike. You, NOW magazine reader, fair trade lentil soup eater, citizen of the People’s Republic of the...
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Air Canada to launch new low-cost airline
Canadians looking for cheap fares to Cuba and Mexico will be getting more flight options—it’s just not clear when or under...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ford makes it official: Toronto wants to contract out its garbage collection
The last time the Toronto Sun ran a cover story based on an exclusive from the mayor's office, it was that Rob and Doug Ford were...
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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...
City News
Maple Leafs fined for offering a $600 cash incentive to players to beat San Jose
The National Hockey League has fined the Toronto Maple Leafs an undisclosed amount for violating article 26 of the current...
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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...
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Who is more deluded: Rob Ford or the labour unions?
Rob Ford’s first—and nastiest—fight will be with organized labour. The unions are saying “bring it” The garbage strike...
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Unsurprising headlines of the future, “Rob Ford battles the TTC” edition
What will be Rob Ford ’s first battle after he drops the “-elect” in mayor-elect? Will it be over multi-storey skating...
City News
Mr. Popular: Why Rob Ford’s winning over Toronto
By any measure he’s a terrible candidate for mayor. But his obsession with cost-cutting and his contempt for City Hall have pushed him to the front of the pack. The unlikely allure of Rob Ford
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Culture
TIFFed off: unhappy hotel workers take their case to the streets
These flyers were being handed out to people on King West yesterday, bringing attention to what hotel workers call a "quiet...
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Rossi, Thomson crash Pantalone’s Labour Day party
In terms of formal endorsements, there's really only one dyed-in-the-wool left wing candidate in the mayor's race, and that's Joe...
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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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