ICYMI: People challenging Premer Ford's Ontario Place redevelopment will make their case to the Supreme Court of Canada - raising doubts about the project’s future - after the top court granted them leave to appeal. www.thestar.com/news/gta/bat...

I am suspending the #BlizzardsNow campaign to suggest you go outside in Toronto right now. Winter is over. Slight elixir to <gestures at world>

With the Liberals inching closer to a majority, Chrystia Freeland’s soon-to-be-empty seat will be a coveted prize

NEW from me: Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham. Take that, elites! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Democratic lawmakers say they were misled on Venezuela reut.rs/3NrI56B

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 was a campaign trail boogeyman for President Trump, but much of it became reality during his first year back in office.

day one in mamdani’s new york

#BikeTO But you can’t ride in the winter? Bullshit!

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” Will 2026 bring a renaissance of societal values? 🤞

Not just nyc is having a historic moment today. So many good / encouraging / interesting mayors in the States.

Netflix's Seymour Hersh doc reveals a brilliant journalist whose ability to find sources and write compelling exposes is unmatched. But his passion for fighting injustice sometimes overcomes journalistic rigor. In our business, credibility is everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxE...

It’s a very grim scene, the body is still on the road now (half past noon), covered by an orange tarp. I expect it’s because they’re doing whatever forensics are needed. Got to imagine if they catch the drivers, charges are going to be filed.

Bluesky: I’m a better person than you Twitter: I’m a better person than you because I’m white Instagram: I’m a better person than you because I’m hot LinkedIn: When people say “I’m a better person than you” this is what it teaches me about B2B marketing

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

I love a country that bestows it’s highest public service honour on a lovable weirdo like Nardwuar, whose deeply researched interviews with rappers were favourites of my Centennial College journalism students

Sheeeeeeeee-it 😞💔✊🏾 variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Tomorrow launches an election year but you could be forgiven for thinking it started months ago. My analysis of the weirdest mayoral election runup in modern Toronto history, thanks to the very early entry of @BradMBradford and odd coyness of @oliviachow www.thestar.com/news/analysi...

A female pedestrian was struck by a driver and left to die this morning at Eglinton East and Dunfield Ave near Yonge. Police are seeking drivers of 2 vehicles including a white SUV with front-end damage www.thestar.com/news/gta/ped...

Repeatedly this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flown to the United States to praise President Donald Trump as Israel’s greatest champion — and to quietly press him on taking more aggressive action against Israel’s enemies.

Lots bad at home and in the world but also - often overshadowed - lots good. Three Toronto Star pieces with reasons for joy & hope in Canada’s biggest city. First Matt Elliott - crime is down, rents are down, don’t believe all the doom & gloom www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

'I've found a sword – and there's a hand on the end of it.' 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beautiful birthday message - and tribute to the Toronto Star - in today’s paper edition. Happy 90th Birthday Cecil Ross Foote! This Star reporter (and reader) hopes we share many editions for years to come.

Confessions of a professional taster: How one woman discovers problems in food factories, one bite at a time

Congrats to all involved and I can’t wait to see it !!! www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-cfny-spi...

A large chunk of my life's work is to get more people involved and paying attention to municipal civics but then I watch a few minutes of Toronto City Council and I want to renounce everything I've done.

This is a key lens to look at how the province treats Toronto. It's a place for people outside of Toronto to get into and out of, not live. And that guides many decisions. Viewed this way, it's really a strange and political home rule system.

Toronto Life must be so mad they missed this. It goes in the Hall of Fame with a NatPo Gillian Cosgrove outrage column over her daughter's private school prom being crashed by kids from a rival private school

Wrote this a year ago. No new ideas.

good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Afghan hunger crisis deepens as aid funding falls short, UN says reut.rs/4q7VC1h

He sees you when you’re sleeping. Spotted in Toronto’s St. Lawrence neighbourhood

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, according to an internal memo, VA staffers and congressional aides. https://wapo.st/3KSaAts

BRENNAN: The president said 'prices are coming down tremendously.' But the latest data shows the consumer price index up 3% year over year. What data is he looking at? HASSETT: He went through the individual items that we've already made a bunch of progress on

Bondi Beach attack now designated a terrorist incident.

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

I can’t get over the fact that Toronto + Ontario shut down transit on one of the busiest weekends of the year. It’s contempt for the people who live here.

In today's Toronto Star I have a story about the incredible transportation frustration experienced by drivers and TTC users who live east of downtown and, thanks to Gardiner ramp removals and unending construction disruption, feel disconnected from the rest of the city thestar.com/news/gta/why...

More than two weeks after being shot in the head in Washington, DC, National Guard Staff Sargent Andrew Wolfe, 24, is breathing on his own and can stand with assistance, according to MedStar Washington Hospital Center. https://cnn.it/4aePUX0

It’s been frustrating as a journalist, and a member of the public, to watch as publicly available data on the health-care system has dwindled over the years. The auditor general now says the Alberta government is changing internal metrics and selectively using data to hide problems:

Breaking: The 2025 Toronto City Hall Press Gallery holiday party was such a hit we are increasing our charitable donation to $1,200 split between Daily Break Food Bank, The Children's Foundation and Journalists for Human Rights. Thanks to all who attended and to host venue The Pilot

Toronto asking rents fall to lowest point since 2022, as condo owners who can’t sell rent instead

Always shocked by people on this site & elsewhere who will @ a working journo or writer, someone whose (in my case) pay hasn't increased in 13 years & who likely live/work precarious lives, with an indignant "paywall" or suggest a non-library workaround cheat. Such raw rudeness, nerve & contempt.

“When you use military hardware on children, it’s going to flay them open. And if they’re lucky enough to survive, they’re in for an awful life.” In part one of a Q&A, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa detailed the catastrophic conditions he witnessed during a medical mission at the European Gaza Hospital.

Shopify reports that its platform was suffering from multiple service outages, as Cyber Monday sales kicked off.

After fatal fire, Brampton landlord pushes back against allegations he did not comply with safety inspections

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

From Mahdis Habibinia: Athena Niggenaber, who last week drove a City of Toronto-contracted snowplow through a group of pro-Palestinian protesters, had posted Islamophobic and anti-protest content on social media before the incident www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...

A mixed martial arts fighter died after his bout in west suburban Cicero on Friday night. Isaac Johnson, 31, collapsed toward the end of his fight at Cicero Stadium, according to town officials, the Cook County medical examiner’s office and a fight promoter.

FBI concludes Trump's would-be assassin acted alone during rally shooting