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Toronto’s secret dinner clubs, Labatt keeps it Canadian, eating during labour
• Beer may be the saviour of the recession. As rumours fly that the auto industry will close plants, Labatt promises to stay...
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Missing restaurateur, Obama’s new brew, a Winterlicious countermeasure
• Police are searching for George Koutroubis, co-owner of Restaurant Makeover -ed Six Steps Restaurant and Lounge , who was last...
Food & Drink
Mr. Sub drug bust, Starbucks downsizes, Pizza Pizza goes west
• Carb-loading may not be the only indulgence attracting Mr. Sub customers after dark. Police uncovered a marijuana stash worth...
Food & Drink
Denied: Posner’s wry prose more or less sends Black to jail until 2013
Yesterday, in 16 pages of tightly woven legal reasoning, Richard Posner more or less put paid to whatever faint hope remained that...
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Lesson #18,330,424 from the Conrad Black trial: Simplify
For as long as he remains a guest of the United States—and perhaps right to the gates of Paradise—I suspect Conrad Black will...
Food & Drink
When it comes to the ethics of embedding journalists, Christie Blatchford misses the big picture (again)
I spent last week working in L.A.—an experience like no other, one that could make even the most deluded dreamer crave...
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On the hook for Conrad Black’s legal bills
There’s a thick vein of irony running through the tortuously long odyssey of United States v. Conrad Black, et al. And with the...
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Montrealer Autumn Kelly marries into the royal family tomorrow, and the press’s reaction is as classy as ringette
What is it about the Anglo-Canadian fascination with aristocracy that puts everyone in a flap at the first sign of pretense? When...
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Conrad Black’s legal tormentor gets new job, salary bump
The Chicago Tribune notes today that Conrad Black’s tormentor-in-chief, Eric Sussman, has moved on to head up the regulatory...
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Cue the madness—Drabinsky and Gottlieb are now on trial
After a mere decade of delays and distractions, former theatre impresario and alleged fraudster Garth Drabinsky will finally see...
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Hillary Clinton: one part Susan B. Anthony, one part Carly Simon and one part Joe McCarthy
In the aftermath of what was, by just about anybody’s estimation, a rout of Barack Obama in Wednesday night’s primary...
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Hey, Toronto, why should we take Richard Florida’s word for it?
A while back, my colleague Philip Preville and Toronto’s newly minted urban affairs media guru Richard Florida crossed swords...
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Conrad Black ignored by the OSC, embraced by the New York Sun
Sure it’s well worn, but to my mind it forever bears repetition: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as...
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E-mail now among Conrad Black’s luxuries
Conrad Black’s recent missive to the Canadian Press, much bruited upon by this blog over the Easter weekend, reveals the weirdly...
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Journalism 101: Tucker Carlson thinks he knows when the record is on
Surprisingly, electoral politics is not the most interesting thing about the hullabaloo surrounding Samantha Power’s resignation...
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Avi Lewis: pompous, literal and working for Al Jazeera
Ever wonder what happened to CBC journalist and lefty icon Avi Lewis? Well, here’s the skinny: According to the National Post...
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John Ibbitson flaunts knowledge of NAFTA, human condition
In this the most compelling political season in recent American history, the powers that be at The Globe and Mail have as their...
City News
A Bone to chew on
After his Lordship’s repudiation last Thursday, the weekend’s coverage dwindled away to almost nothing. One happy exception...
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David Frum’s laughable defence
Predictably, the U.S. government renounced Conrad Black’s arguments in favour of his remaining free on bail pending appeal. As...
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Things I saw that left my jaw swinging: Part 3
Among the milestones in the trial of Conrad Black, this one has about it an air of finality. The Globe and Mail reported this...
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Black Watch: Post-Sentencing Report
Conrad Black’s three-ring circus and pandemonium medicine show came thundering back into town today. And while not so long ago...
City News
The Third Sector
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the gala dinner of the country’s first Social Entrepreneurship Summit. It was like...
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City News
Another Inconvenient Truth
Cities are the engines of the national economy. This is the assertion that girds every call for more money for municipalities:...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories
A careful parsing of his Lordship’s interview with Tom Moroney of Bloomberg Radio offers further evidence that despite his...
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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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