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The city has been forced to shut down its clever anti-littering ad campaign
Everyone has probably noticed these city-produced ads on transit shelters and buses. The mash-ups of different types of familiar...
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City News
Incandescent light bulbs become a thing of the past, starting tomorrow
This has been a long time coming, but the day is finally here. On New Year's Day, it officially becomes illegal for manufacturers...
City News
David Miller lands a new high-profile job at WWF-Canada
Former mayor David Miller is taking over as president and CEO of WWF-Canada (that’s the World Wildlife Fund, not the wrestling...
Shopping
The Thing: a gorgeous bouquet that won’t give you environmental guilt
When everything from computers to pickup trucks is getting the eco treatment, it’s startling to think that the fresh-cuts at...
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Q&A: doc filmmaker Rob Stewart, of
Sharkwater
fame, on his plan to save the world
In Revolution , the globe-trotting, shirt-doffing filmmaker behind the save-the-fish documentary Sharkwater, turns his attention...
Style
H&M is giving vouchers for bags of old clothes
H&M’ s new garment recycling program starts tomorrow in all Canadian stores. Shoppers who bring in a bag of old clothes (from...
Food & Drink
Nuit Blanche 2012 guide: our top 20 picks for Toronto’s seventh annual all-night art crawl
This Saturday, September 29, hordes of art lovers, all-purpose revellers and the generally curious will take to downtown for the...
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City News
Philip Preville: Shark fins, pet store puppies, plastic bags—why Toronto city councillors like to ban things
Rob Ford’s victories rarely last. In fact they only become more stunted as his mayoralty lurches along. For his opening salvo in...
City News
How a small group of farmers and wealthy weekenders made the Melancthon mega-quarry protest a cause célèbre
An unexpected casualty of Toronto’s building boom is the sleepy southern Ontario township of Melancthon, where an American hedge...
City News
Editor’s Letter (August 2012): digging up the dirt
Toronto has been growing at a ferocious rate for as long as I can remember. The Greater Toronto Area has six million inhabitants...
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Food & Drink
Do you eat ethically? This video doesn’t think so
Behind the Kitchen Door: What Every Diner Should Know About the People Who Feed Us, a new book by Saru Jayaraman that hits shelves...
City News
The idea of building more islands in Lake Ontario is still kicking around
Dirt: when you dig it up, it has to go somewhere. Aware of this inescapable truth, the city is still considering taking the 1.8...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 13, because there’s a national park in the middle of Scarborough
Stories of vanishing ecosystems and endangered species are such a grimly familiar refrain, it’s a spirit-lifting relief when...
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City News
Rob Ford thinks the plastic bag fee did what it came to do and should now retire
Toronto has faced a “war on cars,” a “war on bikes” and a “war on children,” and now the “war on plastic bags” is...
City News
Michelle Berardinetti says the (sizable) bag tax proceeds should go to trees—not retailers
Toronto’s five-cent plastic bag tax could boost Toronto’s environmental cred in a new way: Councillor Michelle Berardinetti...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti and Mark Ferguson trade insults—over a community environment day
Giorgio Mammoliti has canceled his ward’s environment day tomorrow, and he says it’s CUPE Local 416’ s fault. The councillor...
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Confidence Man: how Glen Murray is positioning himself to grab the reins of political power
The famously gay former mayor of Winnipeg was lured to Toronto by a group of backroom nabobs and remade as an influential member...
Food & Drink
Demand for fancy cocktail ice spurs Chilean man to steal five tonnes’ worth—from a glacier
Seizing on a new and unique way to sucker people into paying exorbitant prices for water-based products, a man in Chile chipped...
City News
Can Rob Ford tell the difference between wasteful and regular-government-has-to-run-a-city spending?
The budget committee continued the city’s march toward reducing spending last week, approving a motion that will eliminate...
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Philip Preville: Why the city should start killing raccoons (kindly, of course)
Raccoons are everywhere, and at all times of the day. They’re a menace to private property and public health. It’s time we...
Food & Drink
Council to vote on shark fin ban today
City council is set to vote later today on whether to ban shark fin products in Toronto, an issue that came to our attention when...
City News
Greenbuild Conference and Expo makes its Canadian debut this week with Thomas Friedman, Maroon 5 and (for some reason) Kim Campbell
The International Greenbuild Conference and Expo is Toronto from October 4 to 7, marking the Canadian debut of the world’s...
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“We now have a plan,” says Rob Ford of the glorious waterfront vision (for which he doesn’t have a plan)
The conversation about Toronto’s Port Lands keeps going around and around, kind of like some mythic, not-yet-built Ferris...
City News
Doug Ford’s waterfront fantasy meets numbers and facts
The buzz-kills over at the Globe and Mail have thrown cold water all over Doug Ford’ s plans for the Port Lands. Chief among the...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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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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