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Cabinet shuffle: Toronto gets a seat in Harper’s new government—and it’s not even a token
Good news, Toronto: Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his new cabinet this morning and, for the first time since 2006, the...
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City News
School librarians are an endangered species outside of Toronto—but should we care?
The number of librarians across Ontario is on the decline. According to a new study by People for Education , 80 per cent of the...
City News
Toronto hoop prodigies seeking NBA glory
Two basketball phenoms are ready to turn their hoop dreams into reality. A pair of former GTA high school stars—Brampton’s...
City News
The Fortress falls: Liberal ridings taken by Tories and NDP
After the dissolution of Canada’s 40th Parliament, the GTA was a Liberal playing field, Fortress Toronto the most secure of all...
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City News
Orange crush: Canada’s sudden NDP love-in leaves Toronto cold
Remember when the writ dropped and the national press spent 48 hours wondering if NDP leader Jack Layton could stand up to the...
City News
Grits trot out Chrétien and Trudeau to remind GTA that the Liberal Party used to be cool
In this election campaign, some things are a lot easier for the Conservatives than for the Liberals—not the least of which being...
City News
Toronto Star is last paper on earth to discover that anglophones aren’t keen on the BQ. Maybe there should there be a Bloc Torontois?
How can there still be reporters who are surprised to discover that English Canada hasn’t warmed to the Bloc Québécois being...
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City News
“Toronto is the centre of the universe. Let’s just admit it and move on”—the Star’s not afraid to go there
An opinion piece with an opening like that is destined to raise a few eyebrows—and some blood pressure outside of the 416—but...
City News
Cancer rates lower in Toronto than in the rest of Ontario: CCO
Cancer Care Ontario has released data suggesting that people in the GTA are dying of cancer at a rate less frequent than the...
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...
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Real Estate News
Condo high rises post record in February, but is that a good thing or a bad thing?
According to builder’s group BILD GTA, Toronto hit a landmark last month as high-rise condo towers added more than 2,000...
City News
In the midst of Japan’s nuclear crisis, demand for iodide pills rises near leaky Pickering plant
With the news that Japan may be on the brink of a serious nuclear crisis, Ontarians living near the Pickering power plant seem to...
City News
Ford Nation? Tea Party North? Whatever it’s called, it’s probably not worth much
On Saturday morning the Toronto Star broke the story that Nick Kouvalis , the man who ran Rob Ford ’s winning election campaign...
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Battleground Toronto: leaked memo shows that Conservatives really, really, really want “very ethnic” Toronto votes
The latest scandal in Ottawa is that immigration minister Jason Kenney , who’s been charged with building the Conservative brand...
City News
Eight new electric car charging stations open around the G.T.A., as Ontario slowly, slowly moves towards a gas-free future
As oil goes back over $100 per barrel and GTA commuters face higher gas prices, electric cars—a.k.a. “EVs” for “electric...
City News
Fare evaders cost TTC $22 million in 2010
Whether they want subways or streetcars, nearly all Torontonians seems to agree that the city needs more public transit. Just one...
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Rob Ford promises “hardball” tactics if premier doesn’t pony up $150 million
In an interview this morning with Jerry Agar on Newstalk 1010, Mayor Rob Ford finished off a long interview about the trouble at...
City News
Toronto wakes up to higher gas prices. Who’s to blame? Everybody
With prices jumping to $1.20 per litre in some places—having risen almost five cents in two days—Toronto is facing prices...
City News
Stephen Harper announces changes to citizen’s arrest laws in most election-y way possible
More and more, it’s looking like Canada is going to have an election on May 2 . There are signs are everywhere: rumours aplenty...
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Real Estate News
Sign of the apocalypse #49,273: the Toronto Star, National Post and Spacing all agree on something—subways
We’re not going to go so far as to call it an “editorial consensus,” but with the debate over subways that Toronto’s been...
City News
Could Stephen Harper win Toronto seats with TTC cash?
Judging by the amount of ink that has already been spilled over a potential federal election , it’s not too early to start...
City News
Where are they now? Catching up with Toronto’s former mayoral candidates
As Rocco Rossi reminded us with his surprise announcement last week, the candidates of the 2010 mayoral race, who so preoccupied...
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Toronto Transit Commission workers’ union properly reads the mood of the city for once: no strikes during contract negotiations, says leader Bob Kinnear
TTC union chief Bob Kinnear made a speech yesterday that demonstrated a quality we haven’t seen from the union since the last...
Food & Drink
Empire watch: Oliver and Bonacini to open new restaurant at The Bay’s Queen Street flagship
The experience of eating at The Bay is about to get a whole lot snazzier. Canada’s oldest corporation is bringing in...
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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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