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The
Toronto Star
building may escape demolition by converting into a fancy hotel
Developer Pinnacle International wants the city’s waterfront to become a global tourist destination
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Editor’s Letter: When the news is the news
The new owners of the
Toronto Star
, the country's largest newspaper, seemed ironically unwilling to sit down for an interview. As details of their fractured partnership emerged, it became apparent why
City News
Star
Wars: Inside the vicious battle for control of the country’s largest newspaper
Jordan Bitove and Paul Rivett promised to lead the
Toronto Star
into a golden era. Instead, their big egos and clashing visions nearly tore the company apart
Life
“One person dead. Two careers in tatters”: a workplace affair gone horribly wrong
A talented reporter fell in love with a married senior staffer. When their relationship ended badly, she left a suicide note in her desk, went home and killed herself
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City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #39, Kevin Donovan
Powerful people start quaking when Kevin Donovan’s name pops up on their call display
City News
People with their arms crossed in front of things they’re against: a taxonomy of the
Star
’s favourite visual cliché
Two things are inevitable in a big city: constant change, and constant opposition to change. Local media outlets have a tough time...
City News
The
Toronto Star
’s paywall is probably coming down soon
The Toronto Star was late to the paywall party. The Globe , the Sun and the Post had all started hitting up online readers for...
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Doug Ford on
Star
reporter Jennifer Pagliaro: “I can’t stand that little bitch”
On Wednesday night, after a mayoral debate hosted by CTV, Doug Ford briefly shed his new nice-guy persona to share a candid...
City News
Four things we learned from Monday’s
Toronto Star
mayoral debate
After dozens of mayoral debates, the gruelling campaign season is finally coming to a close as Monday's election...
City News
SLIDESHOW: The
Toronto Star
gives a century’s worth of photos to Toronto Public Library
During a press event this morning, Toronto Public Library announced that the Toronto Star has donated its entire archive of...
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City News
PHOTO:
Toronto Star
reporters stage a byline strike
Inattentive readers may not necessarily notice, but today's Toronto Star is full of articles without bylines. (Meaning, rather...
City News
The Maple Leafs/Canadiens rivalry is over—and we lost, apparently
You know the old Leafs/Habs rivalry? The most enduring conflict in the NHL? The sporting world’s plainest articulation of our...
City News
The
Star
’s Robyn Doolittle is moving to the
Globe
Robyn Doolittle ’s reporting on Rob Ford —especially Crazy Town , her book-length treatment of Ford's political and personal...
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QUOTED: Doug Ford on
Crazy Town
, Robyn Doolittle’s book about his family
—The mayor's brother, councillor Doug Ford , sharing his reaction to Star reporter Robyn Dolittle ’s Crazy Town . The...
City News
Reaction Round-up: 16 essential quotes about Rob Ford’s rant in Jamaican patois
Tuesday's video of Rob Ford , inebriated at Steak Queen and rambling incoherently in Jamaican patois, has caused renewed outrage...
City News
The
Star
figures out how to get Toronto civic leaders to comment on Rob Ford: hold a gun to their heads
Strong opinions on Rob Ford aren't in short supply. The mayor was a polarizing guy to begin with, and his crack scandal has...
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It’s official: Star reporter Daniel Dale is going to sue Rob Ford over “pedophile” suggestion [UPDATED]
It seems as though Rob Ford has earned himself another defamation lawsuit. (He's 1-0 on these things, so far .) Daniel Dale —the...
City News
PHOTO: The cover of reporter Robyn Doolittle’s upcoming book about Rob Ford
Robyn Doolittle, one of just three journalists to have seen the Rob Ford crack video, has stayed tight-lipped about the nature of...
City News
Rob Ford Crack Scandal: 16 amusing, baffling and touching reactions from notables that you need to read
Opinions about Rob Ford are like rage-fuelled TTC stories: every Torontonian has one. With the massive volume of mayor-related...
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Police watched Gawker editor John Cook watch the Rob Ford crack video
Here’s a comforting bit of news for Gawker editor John Cook: as he sat in a car outside a Dixon Road housing development last...
City News
The Toronto Star names the man who tried to hock the Rob Ford crack video
The Rob Ford crack scandal is all but dead. Gawker has given up on buying the video; Ford has replaced all his departed...
City News
Q&A: Robyn Doolittle, the Star’s Ford-stalking, video-watching, hate mail–receiving journalist du jour
You were a little-known reporter covering the municipal beat. Then the mayor does crack—or not—you watch a video and you’re...
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Here’s what the massive pre-dawn drug raid had to do with Rob Ford
After a (mostly) quiet week on the ongoing Rob Ford crack scandal, the rumour-mill revved up again this morning when police...
City News
Six defences of Rob Ford, from somewhat reasonable to completely crazytown
In a show of Ford Nation’s loyalty, Rob Ford still has more-or-less the same approval rating as before he became the world’s...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Toronto Life
’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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