The agitator

The Toronto Sun’s City Hall columnist has been called a dyke, a moron, a racist, a kike, a Twitter troll, and a pit bull, yet she is also described...;

The elephants in the room

A year after city council decided to send the Toronto Zoo's three elephants to a California sanctuary, and four hours into a debate on whether to follow...;

How to bridge the urban-suburban divide

It was fun to pile on Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday last week after he questioned the wisdom of raising children downtown. He provided a perfect target, invoking...;

Retro T.O.: Family Living, Downtown Style

Last week, Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday mused that the city’s core “is not the ideal place” to raise a family. His sentiments about children playing...;

Trending: July 12

2. Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday argued today against forcing condo developers to include three-bedroom, family-friendly units, saying downtown is no place...;

Holyday says suburbs are safer for kids. He’s wrong.

Doug Holyday, the deputy mayor of Toronto, is a generally decent, polite—one wants to say almost genteel—person to deal with most of the time, but...;

Retro T.O.: Mel Lastman vs. Adam Vaughan

Shortly after becoming mayor of Toronto, Mel Lastman was asked if he worried about his wife Marilyn’s verbal snafus. “All the time,” he said. “...;

Budgetpalooza 2012: Top 5 moments from this morning’s debate

5. Rob Ford started the day by making the property-tax increase his priority item—meaning it would be dealt with first. This was an attempt to eliminate...;