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Evidence of Tony Clement’s involvement in alleged G8 pork fest mounts
The Toronto Star , bless its heart, can’t let the G20 go, and we're more than a little glad, because the story keeps getting...
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Repealed laws, unreleased reports and plea bargains? Thursday is apparently G8/G20 news dump day
We’re only a few months away from the one-year anniversary of the G8/G20 summits that were ever so much fun for this city. In...
City News
Five things Torontonians should look for in the federal election debates
This week, Canadians get to watch two debates among the leaders of the four official parties in the House of Commons—the English...
City News
Auditor general: Stephen Harper and Tony Clement lied to Parliament and may have broken laws before G8/G20
This morning the Canadian Press is pushing a hot story that may influence the outcome of the federal election: a report from...
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Culture
30 Rock comes to Toronto: what they got right, what they got wrong
Last night’s jaunt to Toronto by 30 Rock ’s Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) and Avery Jessop ( Elizabeth Banks ) continued the...
City News
Canadian Taxpayers Federation hands out awards for most wasteful politicians, but misses the most obvious ones
Yesterday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation had a fun little event where the organization handed out Teddies—that...
City News
2010 Lexicon: 11 new words that entered our vocabulary this past year
1. true belieber \troo bih-leeb-er\ n. (2010): Self-designative term adopted by mega-fans of Canadian entertainer Justin...
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Conservatives’ love-hate relationship with immigrants continues with cuts to settlement funding
Over the past several years (and elections), the Conservative Party has been trying hard to wrest the votes of new Canadians from...
City News
The job report: explaining Canada’s post-recession bounce
We keep hearing about the amazing Canadian economic rebound—some 300,000 new jobs in the past year. Is Bay Street paving the way...
City News
Officer Bubbles takes Toronto
This G20 thing just isn’t going away. A video by Real News that went viral on YouTube last week shows a young woman blowing...
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Food & Drink
Shafted by the G20, 40 Toronto street food vendors are seeking compensation for lost revenue
Street food vendors in Toronto are not a happy bunch. First, there was the whole A La Cart debacle that saw enterprising...
Food & Drink
Downtown restaurants look to recoup G8/G20 losses with special menus
In a response to losing more than half of her restaurant's revenue due to the G20 last weekend, Church Street’s Wine Bar...
City News
Hogtown versus the world: how does Toronto’s G20 compare with previous summits?
The G20 summit has mostly wound down, and the result is pretty mediocre: for billions in spending and a few torched police...
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Bleeding ink: a roundup of G20 reactions from home and around the world
It's been a pretty wild 74 hours for Toronto. We've had world leaders, riots and some questionable police tactics, all...
City News
Welcome, G20 leaders! Now, spend some money here
The long-anticipated G20 summit has arrived in Toronto and has not been an unblemished joy for the people who live here. Between...
City News
Wave of boredom hits downtown Toronto as it waits for G20 chaos
Compared to the ruckus caused by World Cup revellers on College Street this morning, the area around the G20 security zone was...
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Wait times massive at Pearson Airport’s Toast! Café
Passengers travelling to Lester B. Pearson International Airport were told to expect "significant delays" today due to the arrival...
City News
Crazy new rules give G20 cops superpowers, but only until Sunday
The Ontario government quietly but dramatically expanded the powers available to police during the G20 summit in Toronto. New...
City News
U.K. PM Cameron sucks up to Canada and Harper in Globe opinion pages
One of the newest national leaders to be visiting Toronto as part of the G20 is David Cameron, recently elected to head up the...
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World Vision’s creepily poignant maternal health demonstration
"Pregnant with promises"—that's how World Vision demonstrators depicted G8 leaders at a rally in front of St. James Cathedral...
City News
G20 Toronto photo gallery: protestors get an early start
As Toronto braces for the G20 kickoff on Friday, local and imported protestors took to the streets in the west end to give the...
City News
Canadian rappers issue danceable call to arms, fuel G20 protestors’ unspecific rage
The music video for “Crash the Meeting” by local artists Test Their Logik is making the rounds on protestor sites. We see it...
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Food & Drink
G20 protesters get a free buffet too
Everyone knows the best part of a conference is the free food, and thanks to community organizers the People's Kitchen , even...
City News
G2OMG: Toronto momentarily not hated by rest of Canada, fabric of reality at risk
If there's one thing Canadians outside of the GTA know, it’s that Toronto sucks. Critics say that this city is...
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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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