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Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
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Rob Granatstein: how city hall tries—and fails—to tackle the systemically screwed-up Toronto taxi industry
Toronto’s taxi industry has been a mess for more than 50 years. As a passenger, you feel it as soon as you slide your bum onto...
City News
Just like in their old jobs, departing Toronto councillors don’t know what to do with themselves
The Star has done a decent roundup of what Toronto’s departing councillors are going to do with their lives now that they’ve...
City News
Comparing cab rates: Toronto has the 20th most expensive taxis in the world
We all know that taxis are expensive in Toronto, but today’s Globe goes one step further and proves it . According to the paper...
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How Ford-friendly will the new council be? A councillor-by-councillor analysis
“[ Rob Ford ] won’t be able to pass gas without the permission of council.” That was city council bomb-thrower Howard Moscoe...
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City hall now with fewer erection jokes: Howard Moscoe is retiring
Long-time city councillor Howard Moscoe is best known for his mouth: whether slagging Mel Lastman (something Moscoe started doing...
City News
Rob Ford’s frenemies on council eager to emphasize the “fre” part
Mayoral front-runner Rob Ford doesn't have a lot of people he could call friends on council, or so the story goes. Just yesterday...
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As Rob Ford is punished again, councillors contemplate the Mayor Ford era, plan coup
Another day, another report from the integrity commissioner that Rob Ford did something he shouldn't have. In this case, Ford...
City News
Wave of retirements to leave our city council smelling unusually un-morgue-like
Keen observers of city council have been noting that Toronto's going to be run by a pretty different bunch of folks come...
City News
Spadina subway expansion might be delayed because of obscure rule; city council appears to lose its mind
It's bad enough that a much-needed expansion of Toronto's transit system is being delayed because the province can't cough up the...
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The city releases secret to cancelling parking tickets: pretty much any excuse works
After what sounds like years of conspiracies and cover-ups, drivers finally have a shot against the sneaky tactics of parking...
City News
Yet another subway hero: Smitherman unleashes his transit plan
George Smitherman took a break from picking fights with Rob Ford (too bad, that was fun) in order to release an actual policy...
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Howard Moscoe: a retrospective of antics
Last week, we saw some strange antics from city councillor Howard Moscoe . First, he invited drivers to support transit with those...
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Howard Moscoe literally draws swords in Transit City throwdown with McGuinty
Apparently, it’s been a while since 70-year-old city councillor Howard Moscoe has had to remember the childhood adage “two...
City News
Strange bedfellows: with a plan similar to Thomson’s and Ford’s, Rossi turns the subway love-in into a threesome
It feels like it was just yesterday that Howard Moscoe was whining that none of the mayoral candidates was running as the champion...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
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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
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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