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“Some full-timers are using food banks”: A Metro employee breaks down why GTA grocery workers are prepared to strike
After 25 years as a produce clerk, Tammy Laporte’s wages have fallen woefully behind the rate of inflation. Now, she can’t afford to shop at her own workplace
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Life
What people were saying about the LCBO strike that wasn’t
Some ephemera from the short-lived LCBO panic of '17
Life
Toronto Zoo workers are on strike, and their strategy includes torturing management with bad animal puns
All the worst zoo-related groaners
City News
The 10 biggest moments in Toronto transportation in the last 50 years
The trains, roads, strikes and spats that mattered most
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City News
Jan Wong: The province’s shrewd but savage strategy to stick it to Ontario’s teachers
The school year is coming to a close, and not a moment too soon. It’s been an ugly one. Queen’s Park forced new labour...
City News
Air Canada pilots call in sick, Air Canada passengers just sickened
Since this morning, Air Canada has been dealing with a pilot “sick-in,” which stands to be about as unpleasant as it...
City News
Strike watch is officially over: part-time recreation workers take Rob Ford’s deal
Just as mayor and labour oracle Rob Ford predicted, the 8,600 part-time city workers who run Toronto’s recreation programs have...
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City News
Does Rob Ford have some secret ability to charm unions?
Rob Ford’s administration has avoided any drawn-out work stoppages, which is kind of a shocker for a mayor obsessed with...
City News
Dig out that library card because the strike could be over by tonight
Although we won’t have any details until it’s ratified, striking library workers have reached a tentative deal with the city...
City News
Some of Toronto’s inside workers accepted the city’s offer, making Doug Holyday sort of right
Doug Holyday was half-right (or half-wrong, we guess)—the deputy mayor had predicted that Toronto’s inside workers would...
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City News
Margaret Atwood expresses support for librarians on strike (no reponse yet from Doug Ford)
By now, it’s clear that the ongoing library strike won’t spark another spirited bout between literary critic Doug Ford and...
City News
Inside workers will hold a deal-or-no-deal vote on Wednesday (without Howie Mandel, sadly)
Doug Holyday, the mayor’s point man in the negotiations with CUPE Local 79, is proclaiming victory, telling reporters that the...
City News
How a strike by Toronto’s inside workers would make your life suck
Going on strike seems to be the thing to do these days, and we’re wondering if the city’s inside workers will be next to get...
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City News
Air Canada workers stage short-lived wildcat strike and ruin at least one childhood
Having apparently decided Toronto’s librarians look pretty cool walking the picket lines, Air Canada workers launched a wildcat...
City News
Inside workers union says it won’t strike—but if it does, it’s the city’s fault
Showing some PR smarts, CUPE Local 79 is proclaiming that its 23,000 members won’t strike this weekend —unless the city makes...
City News
Does Rob Ford have secret plans to fire half of Toronto’s librarians? Probably not
Librarians may be bad at chanting, but they’re pretty good with alarmist rhetoric, according to the Globe and Mail’ s Marcus...
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City News
Fittingly, the first strike of Rob Ford’s administration affects libraries
Citing threats to job security (and perhaps still stinging from that whole Tim Hortons thing), 2,300 library workers have walked...
City News
St. Lawrence Centre workers locked out by management; is this a new era in Toronto labour relations?
We hate to break this news to our gentle readers, but apparently Rob Ford doesn't like unions. He really, really doesn't like...
Culture
Yorkville 1: King West 0. Hotel workers picket outside Hyatt
A day after hotel workers handed out pamphlets outside the King Street Hyatt Regency —the headquarters of all TIFF...
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Culture
Martin Sheen joins Royal York Hotel picket line for 20 minutes
His son may have been spotted at the Drake's rooftop patio, but Martin Sheen seems to prefer a more street-level approach to...
City News
Toronto hating gets an embossed stamp: U.S. State Department says stay away during the G20
Torontonians woke up this morning to find that the U.S. State Department had put our fair city on the same list as Jamaica and...
City News
Metro newspaper threatens to take away sudoku
One of the city’s daily freebie papers has two more days to negotiate a new contract with its 70-person staff, or else employees...
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Food & Drink
Toronto the Guu’d: Vancouver’s popular izakaya chain lands on Church Street in December
"Patience is a virtue" is an axiom that Toronto fans of izakaya have been repeating to themselves since we first reported that Guu...
Food & Drink
Travellers told of Toronto’s “stench”
A travel warnings Web site is making a stink about Toronto's garbage strike, and that means bad news for a hospitality industry...
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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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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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