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Toronto District School Board
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The TDSB reportedly plans to cut 600 teaching positions
Toronto Today
obtained a copy of the school board’s 2026-2027 staffing allocation plan
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The TDSB will eliminate 40 vice-principal jobs next year
The Ontario school board is among eight that have been taken over by the province
Real Estate News
Toronto’s school boards want to build higher, but it’s making residents worried
Some parents don’t like the idea of taller schools
City News
The Ford government has made a mess of the TDSB class-size cap
Kids, be nice to your teachers
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“They’re taking away my democratic voice”: This east-end parent is enraged by Doug Ford’s TDSB takeover
The provincial government has taken direct control of the Toronto District School Board, sidelining its 22 elected trustees. For Toronto parent Jennifer Volk, the move is an attack on families
City News
“These companies are targeting our kids”: The chair of the TDSB on its decision to sue TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat for $4.5 billion
Rachel Chernos Lin says addictive social media platforms are driving anxiety, depression and violence in the student body—and she thinks the companies behind them should pay the price
City News
Q&A: Education Minister Liz Sandals on getting the new sex ed curriculum past a mob of angry parents
In September, under your new curriculum, students will learn about anal and oral sex starting in Grade 7. Why is that the...
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Could the TDSB really be broken up into smaller school boards?
THE IDEA Earlier this month, education minister Liz Sandals appointed an expert panel to troubleshoot the notoriously...
City News
Inside the nasty, bizarro, contemptible, gobsmackingly screwed-up soap opera that is the TDSB
The evening of Wednesday October 29 was possibly the most absurd in the history of the Toronto District School Board. The board of...
City News
TDSB Education Director Donna Quan’s pay package is now slightly less mysterious
— Donna Quan’ s current salary as director of education for the Toronto District School Board, according to a TDSB...
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Not every TDSB school is rolling in bake-sale money
—The amount of donation money raised per student during the 2012-2013 session at Quest Alternative Senior School , a 68-student...
City News
A TDSB trustee billed taxpayers for a tour of Israel, for some reason
—The amount of Toronto District School Board money trustee Gerri Gershon spent on a tour of Israel, according to an internal...
City News
TDSB is spending $700,000 to fix a security breach it created all by itself
In the bitterly ironic world of Toronto District School Board politics, even a newspaper investigation into wasteful spending...
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Ex-TDSB director Chris Spence wants the University of Toronto to let him keep his PhD
It's possible that Chris Spence has suffered enough. Hired as TDSB's education director in 2009, his reform mandate came to an...
City News
TDSB trustees are misusing their expense accounts, an auditor finds
The Toronto District School Board's trustees have a new bullet point to add to their lengthy resume of failures: a new internal...
City News
What’s the matter with the Toronto District School Board?
Today's revelation that the Toronto District School Board has funneled tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars into a charity...
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School board trustees want the city to arrest naked people at the Pride parade, for the children
What happens if a high school student sees a naked dude during the Pride parade ? Toronto District School Board trustees Sam...
City News
Editor’s Letter (December 2012): under the influence
David Mirvish’s plan to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre and build three 80-plus-storey Frank Gehry–designed condo...
Food & Drink
Susur Lee goes all Jamie Oliver with new TDSB cafeteria initiative
Last year, the Toronto District School Board closed 32 of its cafeterias after the province set stricter guidelines about serving...
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Buyers beware: several schools near condo towers have no room for new students
Living in a condo building with kids can be tough: there’s less space for playtime, more insults from deputy mayor Doug Holyday...
City News
Toronto’s Africentric high-school program finds a home
The Toronto District School Board has opened enrollment for the city’s first Africentric high-school program, which will kick...
City News
The principal of Toronto’s Africentric school has decided to leave
There are changes afoot at Africentric Alternative, Toronto’s controversial school-within-a-school geared toward black...
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Allah in the Cafeteria: Inside the school prayer scandal at Valley Park Middle School
When the principal at Valley Park Middle School allowed 400 Muslim students to pray in the lunchroom, he thought he was being...
City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
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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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