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Olivia Chow wants to reclaim Toronto’s garbage bins
The city’s Astral contract is set to expire next year
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Josh Matlow dreams of a Toronto without piles of hot garbage. Can it be done?
The city councillor sounds off on overflowing trash bins and why the current privatized maintenance contract is rubbish
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Q&A: Matt Keliher, Toronto’s top garbage man, on the recycling crisis
He says companies that produce plastic should pay to recycle it
City News
City garbage trucks get into a lot of collisions
—The number of collisions city garbage trucks have been involved in since 2009, according to the Star . There were between 300...
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Toronto’s private garbage collection has a mediocre few months
—Total number of curbside collection complaints lodged between January and March against Green for Life , the private contractor...
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Pickup Artists: outsourcing half the garbage collection was brilliant—privatizing the rest would be disastrous
The map of Toronto’s curbside waste collection operations, which is split into four districts, two east and two west, looks like...
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Rob Ford will privatize the east end’s garbage collection—as soon as he’s re-elected
On his Newstalk 1010 show this week, Rob Ford signalled that he intends to fulfill his campaign pledge to outsource garbage...
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QUOTED: Doug Holyday on what Toronto can expect from Rob Ford for the next two years
—Deputy mayor Doug Holyday’ s preview of Rob Ford’ s agenda for the next two and a half years can be summarized thusly: who...
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City issues preemptive explanation for a lockout: CUPE made us do it
Despite the February 5 deadline for an agreement in the labour negotiations between the city and CUPE Local 416, Doug Holyday...
City News
Q&A: Patrick Dovigi, the NHL-goalie-turned-entrepreneur who won Toronto’s lucrative garbage contract
Your company, Green for Life, has multi-million-dollar contracts in Oshawa, Whitby and Hamilton—and now one for 165,000 homes...
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Apparently, mere conversations are now evidence of progress in the city labour dispute
Negotiations between city hall and CUPE Local 416 are continuing this week, as the city creeps slowly toward an ever more likely...
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Rob Ford and his allies continue to control the PR game over contract negotiations with city unions
The Rob Ford administration has already fired the first volleys of the New Year in the ongoing public relations battle with CUPE...
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Dear senior citizens and charities, please dispose of your own garbage. Love, Rob Ford
Apparently, Rob Ford’ s executive committee supports a move that would see churches, service agencies, retirement homes and...
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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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How private garbage contractors turned state-of-the-art showers into gravy
It’s starting to look like the world of privatized garbage collection isn’t as gravy-free as the mayor and his friends would...
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Former business associate of Kiss’s Gene Simmons is now collecting Toronto’s garbage
Kiss bass player Gene Simmons has made it into the coverage of Rob Ford ’ s push for garbage privatization (it’s about...
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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...
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When the mayor is Rob Ford and the issue is garbage collection, high approval ratings apparently aren’t necessary for victory
Mayor Rob Ford made good on a campaign promise yesterday with council’s vote to contract out city garbage collection between...
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Sun columnist takes the Globe and Mail to task over garbage reporting
Sue-Ann Levy has chosen her latest target, and it’s not a union leader or a left-leaning councillor. It’s municipal affairs...
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Garbage privatization happening six months early, savings (maybe) larger than expected
It was a bit of a surprise yesterday when Denzil Minnan-Wong announced that the City of Toronto would be moving forward with...
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Giorgio Mammoliti wants panhandling banned from Toronto’s streets—but encouraged at Queen’s Park
Taking a break from sniffing out wayward communists on Facebook, Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti has joined forces with fellow...
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Toronto’s first core service review is out; on the menu: cuts, cuts and more cuts
When he was running for office in 2010, Mayor Rob Ford repeatedly assured voters that he could deliver his budget promises to the...
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David Miller makes a doc for the CBC, tries to burnish his rep by appealing to T.O.’s New York envy
Since his election last October, Rob Ford has been waging a war against pretty much every part of David Miller ’s...
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Council votes to start the trash privatization process—but is the mayor already losing his magic touch?
Yesterday’s council debate started, fittingly, with a little trash talk. Rob Ford unleashed his inner loudmouth (which 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
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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
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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
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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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