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Mark Carney and Doug Ford patched things up in a Pizza Nova
It was their first time together since Ford criticized Carney’s trade deal with China
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City News
Doug Ford wants Canadians to boycott Chinese-made EVs
The premier said that we should “support companies that are building vehicles here”
City News
Doug Ford doesn’t like Canada’s new trade agreement with China
The premier said the agreement is a “mess”
City News
“It felt like vertigo”: The White House used this economist’s research to justify tariffs. They couldn’t have got it more wrong
McMaster professor Pau Pujolas shares the story behind a Trump administration reading-comprehension fail
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Life
Q&A: Anastasia Lin, the Canadian beauty queen on China’s black list
Her criticism of China’s human rights record is putting her father in danger, but she won’t back down
City News
Doug Ford patronizes an entire country
At a ceremonial raising of the Chinese flag at city hall this morning, mayoral candidate Doug Ford came close to repeating his...
Culture
Slideshow: a preview of “The Forbidden City,” the ROM’s new exhibition of artifacts from China’s imperial palace
As part of the ROM ’s centenary, the museum is renewing its Far East focus by bringing in an extensive collection of over 200...
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City News
A Cultural Revolution: the AGO’s Ai Weiwei exhibition proves why the Chinese artist is such a threat
Ai Weiwei is the most famous artist on the planet, and like many who have held the title before (van Gogh, Picasso), his personal...
City News
Introducing: the Toronto Zoo’s new panda couple
After twelve years of planning, a pair of giant pandas on long-term loan from China’s Chongqing Zoo finally touched down in...
City News
Memoir: when my husband and I defected from North Korea, we made the biggest sacrifice of all
I met my husband, Oh-jooyean, in 1996, while working in a market near my hometown of Yonan, North Korea. I was 22 years old; he...
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City News
Penthouse International: how rich foreign buyers are fuelling the condo explosion
The rumours are true: wealthy buyers from Russia, China and the Middle East all want a piece of Toronto. A story about smuggled...
Food & Drink
For only $200 a cup, you’ll soon be able to buy tea grown in panda dung
Tea drinkers finally have a drink as off-putting as kopi luwak to call their own. Reuters reports that An Yanshi, a businessman in...
City News
Why three prominent Chinese-Canadian writers launched a $10-million plagiarism suit against Ling Zhang
A tale of death threats, tarnished reputations and literary jealousy The streets near Scarborough’s Confederation Park curve and...
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The List: Ten things Blue Rodeo frontman and Canadian rock icon Jim Cuddy can’t live without
1| My skates I play a lot of hockey. It’s amazing that at my age I still get thrilled about skates, but I do. These ones are by...
City News
Jan Wong: how the rise of horticultural training at Toronto schools is bad for students
While we’re busy teaching our kids to tend school gardens, they’re failing provincial tests in reading, writing and math. The...
City News
Camera: Henry Kissinger, Brian Mulroney and other noted brains and statesmen at the Munk Debates after-party
June 17 . Last year’s verbal slugfest between former British PM Tony Blair and journalist Christopher Hitchens established the...
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Kissinger versus Ferguson: three things we hope to see at the next Munk Debates
It’s interesting—in the “kind of weird” sense of the term—that an academic debate hosted by the University of Toronto...
Style
Canadian male model is the new face of Louis Vuitton
When we think of Canadian models, we usually think of the women— Daria Werbowy , Jessica Stam , Linda Evangelista , Coco Rocha...
City News
The story behind Weizhen Tang—Toronto’s Bernie Madoff
Weizhen Tang told his investors they deserved to be rich and only he could make them so. Even now, after he lost all their money and was charged with running one of the country’s largest Ponzi schemes, his disciples still want him to keep trading. They believe it’s the only way they’ll get their $30 million back
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Pandas are coming to Toronto—for $11 million
Giorgio Mammoliti is finally going to get his bears. For the past nine years, the city councillor and mayoral also-ran has been...
City News
Pandas in Toronto: city caught between wanting cute things and wanting to cut spending
In a time of tightened belts and mayoral candidates trying to out-parsimony one another, it's kind of surprising to see the city...
Food & Drink
Turns out that disposable chopsticks are an environmental nightmare
Toronto loves Asian food. Witness the city's endless supply of sushi restaurants and packed Chinese eateries— declared some of...
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City News
Dalai Lama rolls into Toronto this October
Toronto has two tidbits of news to celebrate for the Dalai Lama today: his 75th birthday and the announcement that he will be...
City News
Only Smitherman can go to China (on China’s dime)
The Chinese government is holding a Mayor's Forum on Tourism and has invited (according to its Web site ) 222 representatives from...
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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
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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