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Q&A: Tracey Cook, the licensing and standards chief who took on the cab industry
She helped legitimize Uber. Now pot dispensary operators are feeling her wrath
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Here’s what you need to know the next time you take a taxi or Uber
Toronto's new Uber rules are here. Here's what they mean
City News
The 10 biggest moments in Toronto transportation in the last 50 years
The trains, roads, strikes and spats that mattered most
City News
Five things you need to know about the city’s new proposed Uber regulations
If Uber wants to be legal in Toronto, it's going to have to agree to some terms, first
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City News
Should Toronto put an end to UberX? The app’s biggest booster and its mortal enemy square off
Uber Canada general manager Ian Black in conversation with Kristine Hubbard, Beck Taxi's operations manager
City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #7, Ian Black
Black is the regional head of a global corporate scofflaw
City News
Q&A: Jim Karygiannis, the anti-Uber crusader
Councillor Jim Karygiannis made his reputation as a strident defender of the traditional taxi. Yet he received thousands of dollars from that same industry. Conflict? He says nah
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what should I do with my back-seat cab-driving boyfriend?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Every time I take a cab with my boyfriend, he guides our driver using the Waze app, which plots out the...
City News
“We know the city better than they do”: Toronto taxi drivers on what makes them better than Uber
Uber is in court this week defending its right to flood Toronto's streets with semi-pro drivers, who use its UberX service to hire...
City News
Uber Toronto general manager Ian Black on why the city hates his company, and why John Tory doesn’t
Everyone has heard of Uber, but not everyone’s sure what it is. Help us out. It’s a smartphone app: click a button and a car...
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Culture
How do movie crews make Toronto look like New York? One fake police car at a time
Film is a billion-dollar business in Toronto. Lured by favourable exchange rates and tax credits, American companies come here to...
Life
Hailo is leaving North America—but maybe not Toronto
Hailo , the taxi-hailing app that has been ingratiating its way onto Toronto's smartphones since its local launch in 2012, is...
City News
Prepayment, vomit fees: here’s what Toronto’s new taxi regime will mean for you
In the world of Toronto transit, the TTC gets all the credit for being excessively difficult to improve in any way—but you know...
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Why it could soon be more difficult to hail a taxi—and more expensive once you do
Exactly nobody is happy with Toronto’s screwed-up taxi system. Riders find the $4.25 starting fare exorbitant, while the current...
City News
Taxi-hailing app Uber has been charged with operating without a license
Since launching last March, Uber, the best known of Toronto’s taxi- and limo-hailing apps, has seen its share of vocal...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Are cabbies allowed refuse to drive me because I’m carrying my dog?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I read in the Sun about a Muslim cabbie who rejected a passenger carrying a pet, and I thought it was a...
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Uber’s new weapon in the taxi-app battles: free cab rides
Of the several car-hailing apps that have launched in Toronto in the past year, Uber, an app that summons limos, town cars and now...
City News
Toronto has another new car app—and this one summons regular-fare taxis
Toronto has yet another new smart phone app to help stranded urbanites find a ride. Tap’n Ride, the brainchild of Rosedale...
City News
The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
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Gone to pot: the story behind Toronto’s $100-million marijuana economy
Vietnamese gangs recruit teams of immigrants, install elaborate hydroponic equipment in their basements, and train them to raise...
City News
Comparing cab rates: Toronto has the 20th most expensive taxis in the world
We all know that taxis are expensive in Toronto, but today’s Globe goes one step further and proves it . According to the paper...
City News
Sarah Thomson’s green plan shocks all by not being pie-in-the-sky
Most observers have been pretty tough on Sarah Thomson 's transit plan for the city. Hey, we love the idea of putting subway...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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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