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Adam Vaughan vs. Rob Ford’s ultra-cliquey executive committee
For his latest attempt to mess with Rob Ford, inveterate city council pot-stirrer Adam Vaughan tried this week to join the...
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Rob Ford’s friend count is dropping fast
Although Rob Ford is calling it the “best budget in Toronto’s history,” the 2013 budget process has certainly diminished the...
City News
Power Moves: six city councillors making early political plays following Rob Ford’s ouster from office
Since a judge took the unexpected, unprecedented step of kicking Rob Ford out of the mayor’s office on Monday, city hall...
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Rob Ford’s allies fight Adam Vaughan in an epic battle of words, tweets and blurry photos
Rob Ford supporters clashed with Councillor (and likely 2014 mayoral candidate ) Adam Vaughan yesterday, in an...
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Reaction Roundup: The OneCity proposal sparked lots of chatter and crowned an alternate mayor
With cloak-and-dagger plans, alliance building and power shifts, Toronto politics has veered into epic poem territory of...
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Rob Ford returns to his old nemesis: the land transfer tax
Sounding like he was re-using his 2010 election campaign notes, Rob Ford told the Toronto Real Estate Board on Friday that he’d...
City News
Toronto has a massive operating surplus. Again.
In what feels like incredibly familiar news, the city’s budget committee says the city has a $70.3-million operating surplus for...
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Budget committee newbie James Pasternak promises a “floor fight” over cuts
Since learning the city’s 2011 surplus (or “savings”) was $138 more than forecast, city councillors...
City News
Toronto has $138 million more than it thought (but they’re “savings,” not a surplus)
Turns out Toronto’s 2011 budget surplus, estimated at $154 million in January, was actually $138 million more than...
City News
Rob Ford’s allies go rogue just ahead of the Sheppard transit vote
As city council heads into the big Sheppard transit vote, we bring you some final evidence that Rob Ford has lost control of his...
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Mike Del Grande jokes about millions of dollars just for a few LOLs
Last week, silver-tongued Mike Del Grande asked the executive committee to redirect $16.4 million in funding from Regent Park to...
City News
Mike Del Grande isn’t resigning—he just wants to give up his job and be replaced soon
The budget chief’s hands may be “shot” from all the typing he does every day, but apparently he isn’t resigning (or at...
City News
Sue-Ann Levy insists the budget is a victory for Rob Ford—so what’s she so upset about?
Although the budget vote didn’t go his way, Rob Ford can take solace knowing he still has the support of his friends—political...
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Mike Del Grande says libraries will suffer a 10 per cent budget cut whether they like it or not
Though the Toronto library board may have rebuffed the mayor’s demand for a 10 per cent spending cut, budget chief Mike Del...
City News
Apparently, Mike Del Grande is searching under the couch cushions for money to save school nutrition programs
Have no fear, hungry children: Mike Del Grande is working to save your food programs (and so too is Doug Ford) . The Globe and...
City News
City politicians could raise taxes, and citizens might actually be okay with it (no, really)
That’s right, this week deputants at city hall asked politicians to make them pay more taxes. It turns out some Torontonians...
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Quoted: Mike Del Grande on Playboy, public libraries and (imaginary) men in trench coats
That’s silver-tongued budget chief Mike Del Grande on the Toronto Public Library’s Playboy magazines and books (and those...
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Quoted: Mike Del Grande on the vulnerable, and how they’re getting in the way of a balanced budget
That’s budget chief Mike Del Grande lamenting that the impact of service fees on the poor might prevent council from making the...
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Apparently, city hall is looking to recoup lost revenue on the backs of Toronto children
Toronto’s budget chief Mike Del Grande thinks the city should consider charging two bucks for a swim at an outdoor pool or a...
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Mike Del Grande expresses wariness about movies, non-English literature
Budget Chief Mike Del Grande isn’t so sure that city libraries should be spending money on frills such as Hollywood...
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Rob Ford’s finance figures continue to look rather arbitrary—still, he won’t give up his apocalyptic budget rhetoric
The National Post referred to the most significant cuts in the proposed 2012 budget as “highlights,” which we find slightly...
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Mike Del Grande loves cavities (and possibly conspiracy theories)
Mike Del Grande presented a motion—he called it a “grenade”—in favour of eliminating fluoride from the city’s drinking...
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Rob Ford and co. decide to defer selling a stake in Toronto Hydro, leaving big bucks on the table (at least until January)
Mayor Rob Ford and his friends on the executive committee voted yesterday to delay the decision to sell 10 per cent of Toronto...
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Rob Ford’s demand for 10 per cent budget cuts in all city departments is looking more and more arbitrary
With all the talk of Rob Ford’ s business cards, it’s easy to forget that city hall is in the midst of a nasty budget...
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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
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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