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What smart, innovative cities are doing to combat gridlock (Toronto not included)
Believe it or not, Toronto isn’t the only city dealing with traffic congestion (paging Los Angeles ). Big or small, old or...
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City News
Gravy found? Why Toronto’s daycare for cars (i.e. the Toronto Parking Authority) should get the axe
In between some of the more outlandish proposals by KPMG that will never be seriously considered ( selling the Toronto Zoo...
City News
A parking space at the new Four Seasons Hotel that costs more than most cars (hint: we’re talking six figures)
Apparently the market for parking spaces is booming at the moment. Or at least the cost of a spot in the new Four Seasons Private...
City News
Rob Ford wages his own war on the car—no, really: he thinks cars illegally parked in handicapped spots are bad
We assumed that Toronto’s war on the car ended when Rob Ford won the election. But apparently the good mayor himself is willing...
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City News
Vandalism of Liberal signs and cars hits four Toronto ridings
Until late last week, Toronto had been spared the election-themed vandalism that’s hit other ridings (notably Ottawa, where a...
City News
True grit: “Hurricane” Hazel McCallion’s last hurrah after 33 years as the mayor of Mississauga
While Mississauga turned into a massive city of immigrants, Hazel McCallion remained the same stubborn, penny-pinching mayor. Now, in her final term, her legacy is threatened by allegations of misconduct and a gang of critics determined to take her down
Food & Drink
Vendors at Toronto’s farmers’ markets may get special parking permits
City councillor Mike Layton is sticking up for Toronto’s farmers’ markets. The rookie representative from Trinity-Spadina...
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Real Estate News
Mississauga freezes downtown development: opposing big-box retail is not just for Leslieville anymore
As Mississauga continues to deal with having few spaces left to develop, we’ve been fascinated to see how the politics of the...
City News
Goodbye, Green P? Toronto Parking Authority might become privatized to fill city’s budget gap
With the latest in what seems like a never-ending string of budget crises looming over the horizon, Rob Ford ’s office is...
City News
Disillusionment, thy name is Ford: city gravy hunters find out governing is, like, hard and stuff
During the election campaign, Rob Ford repeatedly said that there was no question that, if elected, he would be able to find and...
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Real Estate News
Home of the Week: $4.2 million for an Av and Dav condo that questions the supremacy of the detached house
ADDRESS: 238 Davenport, Suite 303 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma AGENT: Dorann Gottlieb and Erica Gottlieb , Prudential Sadie Moranis...
City News
G20 aftermath: finances less terrible than expected
We think it’s fair to say that the G20, the Fake Lake that came with it, and the police crackdown that it spawned will not be...
City News
Car-loving councillor Minnan-Wong wants to bring better bike lanes to Toronto—wait, what?
Back in the day, Denzil Minnan-Wong was about as anti-bike as any municipal politician could be; this guy (with a little help from...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $5.7 million for a neighbour-free home on two acres in Forest Hill
ADDRESS: 1 Peregrine Way NEIGHBOURHOOD: Forest Hill South AGENT: Elise Kalles , Harvey Kalles Real Estate PRICE: $5,698,000 THE...
City News
Monster jam: Jan Wong on the tear-down real estate trend in Lawrence Park
In my neighbourhood, century-old houses are being knocked down to make room for super-sized faux chateaux. Something is lost, and...
City News
Mr. Popular: Why Rob Ford’s winning over Toronto
By any measure he’s a terrible candidate for mayor. But his obsession with cost-cutting and his contempt for City Hall have pushed him to the front of the pack. The unlikely allure of Rob Ford
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Culture
Absolut’s parking lot shindig was totally the party of the night
When someone says “party in the parking lot,” it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. That’s why we were so pleasantly...
City News
A week in Toronto council: flagpoles, ice rinks and doubling down on crazy
Racing to meet a deadline—that pesky election that we've heard so much about—Toronto's city council is hard at work trying to...
City News
Wild Thing: the story behind the Brick Works
The bucolic eco-paradise between Rosedale and the DVP almost never was. How big money and one ambitious entrepreneur remade the...
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City News
All hail our cyclist overlords! Jarvis bike lanes going in; bike racks colonize Spadina
Most days, talk of Toronto's “war on the car” seems like so much overheated rhetoric. The vast majority of roads have no bike...
Real Estate News
New rink proposed for Lower Donlands: elegant, sparkly, will probably never be built
After all the ballyhoo over the proposed hockey rink for the Lower Donlands project, someone decided to take the city’s lemons...
City News
Toronto’s Path system already bled of business, busyness
With a huge decrease in pedestrian traffic, several access points closed off, hordes of police with riot gear and the possibility...
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City News
Wait—street hockey is illegal in Toronto? No wonder our kids are fat
Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett was at Yonge and Dundas when Sidney Crosby scored the gold-medal goal for Canada back in...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti’s Kyle Rae jokes more interesting than his waterfront plan
In his mayoral campaign, Giorgio Mammoliti has proposed a war against spray paint , a tween curfew and a Freudian redesign of...
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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
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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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