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Pride déjà vu: the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid debate imperils funding (again)
Like another Pride controversy of yesteryear, the question of whether Queers Against Israeli Apartheid should be allowed to march...
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SPOTTED: Rob Ford attends—and reads a proclamation at—a gay outreach event (!)
Something awfully surprising happened just moments ago: Mayor Rob Ford not only attended the flag-raising ceremony for the...
City News
Rob Ford opts out of attending a “gentle” and “welcoming” gay outreach event
Rob Ford has remained non-committal about whether or not he’d forgo all Pride events this year (we believe his exact words were...
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Rob Ford’s former press secretary explains the real reason he won’t attend Pride
After getting into a bit of a verbal spat with the mayor last week, Rob Ford’ s former press secretary, Adrienne Batra , is...
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Poll fever hits Toronto newspapers—and Rob Ford’s looking good
A recent poll suggests that 64.7 per cent of Torontonians love reading news stories about polls. Actually, we made that up, but...
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Reaction Roundup: the fallout over Rob Ford’s decision not to march in the Pride Parade—again
It feels like déjà vu: despite getting tons of flak for not attending any Pride Toronto events last year, Rob Ford has once...
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Kristyn Wong-Tam wants to host a party for Rob Ford—during Pride Week
Since Rob Ford bucked tradition and relaxed at his cottage instead of making an appearance at the 2011 Pride parade, councillor...
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Under new executive director, Pride is fiscally responsible (also, fabulous)
Will Rob Ford attend any Pride events in 2012? The mayor might have been a party pooper and missed out on last year’s...
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Things Margaret Atwood likes: libraries, book clubs, strong language; things Margaret Atwood does not like: Doug and Rob Ford
We’re guessing by now the Brothers Ford know exactly who Margaret Atwood is. After Doug Ford caused a bit of a brouhaha amongst...
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Giorgio Mammoliti gives up the fight against Pride funding—and launches new attack on all “political” festivals
The saga of Giorgio Mammoliti ’s fight against funding Pride Toronto—which began with disputes about the participation of...
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Giorgio Mammoliti’s failed gotcha mission—showing up at the Dyke March with a video camera
No, the man with the hand-held video camera pointed at Saturday’s Dyke March was not a creepy voyeur—it was just city...
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The 10x10 portait exhibit brought 10 queer photographers into the spotlight on Thursday night at The White House
10x10 is a photography exhibit that swept Toronto Pride on the eve of Canada Day, showcasing the talents of queer photographers...
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The 2011 Toronto Pride parade brought over one million babies, bears and puppies (and everything in between)
The 2011 Pride parade is over, and as the beer cups, sequins and other miscellany are cleared off Yonge, Church and beyond, we...
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The Long Weekender: 9 to 5, Food Truck Eats and six other ways to spend your Canada Day/Pride weekend
1. 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL The ’80s are so hot right now. Ripped skinnies, jelly shoes and Chuck Taylors are all in, samples and...
City News
Pride panders to ancient gay stereotypes, loses touch with the 21st-century man and woman
When Toronto Pride rolls into town, the large attendance always reminds of us just how much the city supports its gay...
City News
Ford finally takes yes for an answer in Pride Toronto funding controversy
Well, this proved to be a pleasant surprise at council yesterday: instead of insisting on new funding conditions for Pride Toronto...
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Mammoliti and Co. refuse to take yes for an answer in Pride Toronto funding debate
Later this afternoon, Rob Ford ’s executive committee—a panel made up of the mayor’s closest allies on council—will...
City News
Torontonians might recognize Brad Trost, the Conservative MP who just made abortion an election issue again
It’s like clockwork: at some point during a federal election campaign, the Conservative party’s position social issues crop...
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The continuing saga of Toronto Pride: anti-Israel group now says it won’t march in parade
As part of what it's calling a challenge to Rob Ford , the anti-Israeli gay group QuAIA says it won’t march in the parade at...
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Pride Festival still in Mammoliti’s crosshairs despite city staff declining to call “Israeli Apartheid” hate speech
One of the actions the city has undertaken in relation to the annual Pride Festival is to ask its staff to determine if the use of...
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City hall likely to cut funding for Pride 2011
Pride Toronto, which didn’t exactly have a stellar year in 2010, looks to be heading into a nasty 2011. City hall, now run by...
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Panel recommends “considerable downsizing” to Pride festival, along with new ways Pride Toronto can avoid another lousy year
Last year, it’s safe to say, will not go down in the history books as Pride Toronto’s greatest. There was the Queers Against...
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Pride Toronto’s severe case of TGIF: how the gay and lesbian festival ended up having one of its worst weeks ever
This has been a nasty week for Pride Toronto. The bad news started on Wednesday, when it came out that Pride had overspent its...
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Pride Toronto almost bankrupt, thanks to pulled federal funding and QUAIA fiasco
Last year wasn’t one of the best on record for Toronto Pride. It had the controversy around Queers Against Israeli Apartheid...
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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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