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City News
Rob Ford isn’t invited to this year’s Garrison Ball
The 2013 Garrison Ball was, in a sense, the start of Rob Ford ’s real troubles, because it was the source of the first detailed...
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City News
POLL: Is Rob Ford being a robo-call bully?
Speeches, radio shows and fridge magnets are no longer enough for Rob Ford, who on Friday found a new way to broadcast his...
City News
The five weirdest metaphors Toronto city councillors used to describe the Scarborough subway
After four years, countless political squabbles and at least six competing proposals, Rob Ford’ s Scarborough subway dream is...
Food & Drink
Hero Burger is going to run the new snack bar at Nathan Phillips Square
After a surprisingly contentious three-hour debate, city council has decided to give Hero Certified Burgers the contract for the...
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City News
Reaction Roundup: city hall insiders respond to allegations that Rob Ford has a drinking problem
The Toronto Star created a city-wide firestorm when its story about Rob Ford’ s alleged drinking problem hit newsstands...
City News
The
Toronto Star
asks: does Rob Ford have a drinking problem?
The Toronto Star took aim at Rob Ford once again this morning with a lengthy story alleging that the mayor struggles to control...
City News
Is the Toronto casino dead? Politicos weigh in
The chances of a splashy Toronto casino slimmed significantly yesterday when premier Kathleen Wynne nixed a plan to give the city...
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City News
Rob Ford re-ignites his election campaign at the biggest Ford Fest ever
Forget TIFF: The biggest party this weekend was Rob Ford’s annual barbecue. No, seriously—Ford Fest attracted more than 6,000...
City News
Rob Ford wants to freeze property taxes but even his allies aren’t enthusiastic
In a letter to the city manager late last week, Rob Ford called for a property tax freeze to begin in...
City News
Find out which city councillors are Facebook and Twitter junkies
In the spirit of both June and council report cards, Campaign School, a project from the Academy of the Impossible, evaluated city...
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City News
Rob Ford continues to ignore city hall rules; still, his allies steadfastly support him
In the midst of a heated debate at city hall, important things are sometimes forgotten—like good manners, logic or...
City News
Library board embarrasses Rob Ford, rejecting his call for a 10 per cent cut
After much speculation and stalling, the library board voted to reject reductions aimed at meeting Rob Ford’ s city-wide demand...
City News
City hall councillor wants to bring back free food so that he can sit still
James Pasternak has an idea for making things a little more civil during city council meetings: bring back the snacks. Council...
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City News
Six city hall observers worth following on Twitter in order to keep up with today’s executive committee meeting at city hall
Mayor Rob Ford and his executive committee are in the early stages of what we assume is the political equivalent of a root...
City News
Welfare recipients can skip the Money Mart: Toronto to start handing out debit cards instead of cheques
News like this is enough to make anyone believe there really might be gravy to be found at city hall. Toronto’s latest to...
City News
Jewel-like bugs could destroy Toronto’s ash trees this summer
Toronto may have narrowly escaped snowpocalypse this winter, but the city is now facing a summer threat: an invasion of the...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
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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