David Rider
TorontoStar
Toronto, ON, Canada
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The Ford factor: How Toronto’s mayoral candidates will tackle their most important job
Doug Ford’s Toronto obsession is helping shape the byelection, with mayoral candidates staking out positions on how they would cope with the premier. → Read More
Confusion reigns over Doug Ford’s Science Centre plan that includes conservation authority land
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority says it doesn’t understand why the premier’s plan includes housing on “hazardous” ravine land unfit for new development. → Read More
Josh Matlow, Toronto mayoral hopeful and city councillor, reprimanded by his colleagues over tweets criticizing civil servants
Councillor Josh Matlow, who was frequent opponent of former mayor John Tory and hopes to succeed him, is heading into a byelection with a reprimand and docked pay over his tweets criticizing city staff members. → Read More
Who’s running to be Toronto mayor? Who’s bowed out? Stay up to date with our candidate tracker
The Star’s online tracker will help you stay up to date on key candidates — and potential candidates — in the race to replace John Tory on June 26. → Read More
Toronto’s deputy mayor renews plea for federal, provincial governments to bail out city
Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie sent letter to Ottawa and Queen’s Park ahead of upcoming federal and provincial budgets. → Read More
A digging machine is trapped under Toronto. Inside the $9-million rescue plan.
When rescuers got to the digger’s “cutting wheel” ensnared in wires, they also found groundwater and dangerously loose soil. → Read More
Former councillor Ana Bailão confirms she’s eyeing a run for Toronto mayor
TTC cellphone service and affordable housing are two issues she’d tackle is she decides to run. → Read More
Moments leading up to John Tory’s resignation revealed
Members of mayor’s inner circle describe their shock and dismay to the Star over a scandal that almost no one saw coming as the crisis at City Hall deepens. → Read More
Not In My Parking Space? Electric cars are the city’s future, but this Toronto street rejected on-street chargers
Homeowner hesitation is one more complication to getting chargers on streets for city to hit climate change goals. → Read More
Toronto bureaucrat who oversaw homeless encampment clearing, ride-hailing rules to leave city hall
Tracey Cook was hired in 2012, rising to deputy manager and serving as interim city manager for five months in 2022. → Read More
From road tolls to a municipal sales tax: Insiders share five long-term fixes for Toronto’s budget disaster
As the amalgamated city faces its biggest-ever financial crisis, the Star sought long-term solutions from budget-making experts. → Read More
New setback for Hugh’s Room in its bid to buy ex-church as its permanent home
The owner of 296 Broadview Ave. has relisted the former church north of Dundas Street East for $4.5 million. → Read More
More than a half-century of skiing at Centennial Park glides to a halt
Climate change, as well as rising costs and fewer users, means the site will be converted to tobogganing. → Read More
Civic-minded donors had a hand in building Toronto. Will they help build a $50-million playground on its waterfront?
Privileged Torontonians can assist in creating civic jewels, or give towards work that chips away at Toronto’s growing income and opportunity gap. → Read More
Toronto shifts its electric vehicle charging nework into high gear. But will it be enough?
A Toronto Parking Authority plan approved last week will see the number of city-owned charging stations quadruple over the next two years. → Read More
‘Nobody’ cares about his new ‘strong mayor’ powers, John Tory tells his critics
Toronto’s mayor dismisses criticism of his minority-rule power as ‘political theatre.’ → Read More
Councillors call for public inquiry into Eglinton Crosstown LRT ‘disaster’
The public has a right to know what is happening with the project after repeated delays and costly overruns, say the Toronto councillors. → Read More
Pedestrian struck and injured by driver at Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue
The 20-year-old cyclist killed Wednesday was an international student from India. → Read More
Community advocates blame ‘greed’ for developers’ resistance to new affordable-housing definition
Appeals of the new definition — which are based on tenants’ incomes, rather than market rents — aren’t driven by what’s best for Torontonians, said Walied Khogali Ali of Regent Park Neighbourhood Association. → Read More
‘We can’t keep doing the same thing’: Tenants squeezed by soaring rents in this ward are looking for a champion at city hall
Frances Nunziata faces two challengers in York South—Weston and both of them are renters. → Read More