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Year in Review: seven of Toronto’s biggest losers of 2013
During 2013, some of this city's leaders, sports stars and entertainers suffered setbacks on such an epic scale that their...
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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...
City News
Brian Burke is suing Internet trolls who say he impregnated Hazel Mae
After MLSE brass booted Brian Burke from the general manager’s office in January, a small but rabid corner of the Internet...
City News
Best Bets: unofficial odds for our favourite Toronto Maple Leafs off-the-ice storylines in 2013
NHL hockey is finally here after a 119-day standoff between owners and the players union that robbed fans of nearly half the...
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What Toronto Maple Leafs brass, players and hockey insiders are saying about Brian Burke’s firing
The reactions to the shocking end of Brian Burke’ s tenure as the general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs —and the slightly...
City News
Rob Ford opts out of attending a “gentle” and “welcoming” gay outreach event
Rob Ford has remained non-committal about whether or not he’d forgo all Pride events this year (we believe his exact words were...
Style
When fashion and sports collide: George Laraque calls out the Leafs for endorsing Canada Goose
Retired NHL player George Laraque isn’t happy with the Toronto Maple Leafs. No, he isn’t some curmudgeon complaining from a...
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City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
City News
Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke returns to his youth movement
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ front office has had a busy few weeks. No, they didn’t empty the bank for coveted free agent centre...
City News
The people versus the athletes: are Toronto fans incessant boo-birds?
When former Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay returned to town this weekend, the sold-out crowd at the Rogers Centre showered him...
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City News
Nobody missed Rob Ford at Pride—but his absence is still significant for the city
Despite a somewhat dramatic game of last-minute will-he-or-won’t-he speculation , just as he promised, Rob Ford no-showed at...
City News
Is Rob Ford going to attend Pride after all?
Mayor Rob Ford missed the beginning of Pride Week yesterday, sending council s peaker Frances Nunziata in his stead to the raising...
City News
50 Reasons To Love Toronto: Nos. 4-7, Scouts, Brian Burke, no more Peddie, SlutWalk
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Leafs’ James Reimer to represent Canada at world championships in Slovakia, along with captain Dion Phaneuf and defenceman Luke Schenn
The Toronto Maple Leafs may not be heading to the playoffs this year, but there's still reason to celebrate today, as three of the...
City News
RIP: Toronto Maple Leafs’ playoff chances (2010-2011)
Hey, it was a great while it lasted. Yesterday evening, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ late-season bid for playoff glory officially...
City News
More than just wins and losses on the line as Leafs-Bruins rivalry builds
The Toronto Maple Leafs kept their playoff hopes alive with another thrilling victory Thursday—a 4-3 shootout triumph over the...
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Screw the playoffs: here are five Leafs that promise Toronto a brighter hockey future
With last night’s 4-3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche , the Toronto Maple Leafs extended their winning streak to three games...
City News
How does Ford Nation stack up to other nations—Leafs, Colbert and Bieber?
City News
Trading Spaces: how deadline day impacted the Leafs and their chances
The National Hockey League’s much-ballyhooed trade deadline came and went yesterday will a lot of talk but little action . As is...
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Trading Spaces, Maple Leafs Makeover Edition: what everyone’s saying on this deadline day
The NHL trade deadline is at 3 p.m. today, which, of course, guarantees that for the next few hours the hockey-mad public will...
City News
Trading Spaces: rampant speculation about Leafs trades needs new focal point. Paging Clarke MacArthur
Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke insists he still has a few tricks up his sleeve in the lead-up to the National...
City News
Trading Spaces: Maples Leafs Makeover Edition, part 2
Uh-oh. The Toronto Maple Leafs are flirting with disaster. All the silly talk of making an improbable push for the postseason is...
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City News
Trading Spaces: Maple Leafs Makeover Edition
Poor Phil Kessel . The beleaguered sniper spent all of last week in the media limelight, getting grilled about his lack of...
City News
The Leafs’ Versteeg deal: mo’ money or mo’ youth?
What is Brian Burke up to? Tough to say, these days. In the last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs general manager has made a couple...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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