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Over almost two decades, a garden behind a monastery on Weston Road was, according to a cluster of Catholics, the site of multiple miracles. Last August, a developer bought the [...]

It will also plow through peaceful Toronto neighbourhoods, displacing homes, businesses and everything else in its path. That is, unless the residents have anything to say about it Subway War [...]

From the outside, it looked like any other Forest Hill mansion. Inside, it housed dozens of children from around the world--kids from war-torn countries, kids other people gave back, kids [...]

The Yellowknife ER doctor alarmed by the health impact of climate change WHILE LARGE PARTS of southern Canada are feeling the effects of climate change--unchecked forest fires, once-in-a-century storms that [...]

Shelters are overwhelmed, social housing is a mess, rents are exorbitant and refugees have nowhere to go. The cost: 100 deaths a year. How a city obsessed with growth and [...]

When an Ontario judge convicted Mustafa Ururyar of raping Mandi Gray, the decision was hailed as a feminist triumph. A year later, it was quashed. The case that put the [...]

I worked as a doctor during the Syrian Civil War, treating wounded protesters and vaccinating children. When I moved to the U.S. to get my master's, my future seemed clear. [...]

In the year since assisted suicide became legal, a handful of doctors have taught themselves to help people die. They're grappling with untested procedures, vulnerable patients and a new law [...]

When Christian Thorndyke misbehaved at school, he says his teachers confined him to a tiny room for hours at a time with no food or water. They called it an [...]

The article focuses on the role of public libraries in addressing the needs of vulnerable and homeless individuals and mentions the growing trend of hiring in-house social workers in libraries to support and assist vulnerable populations.

She turned her Mrs. Universe crown into a megaphone, championing First Nations issues and challenging Justin Trudeau to keep his campaign promises. For Ashley Calling bull, that's just the start [...]

When the billionaire sports magnate Eugene Melnyk was diagnosed with liver failure, he crowdsourced a new organ and kick-started an alarming trend. What happens when PR campaigns decide who lives [...]

A growing group of conservative parents have joined forces against the updated sex ed curriculum. They believe it's corrupting their children, and they won't stand for it. A portrait of [...]

Like hundreds of other Hungarian Roma, Jozsef Pusuma and Timea Daroczi came to Toronto seeking asylum. The refugee board believes they're bilking the system. The Pusumas say they're avoiding certain [...]

ONE SATURDAY LAST OCTOBER, the Canadian tenor Ben Heppner wasn't feeling his best. It wasn't serious--a mild vocal inflammation--but he was a few days away from singing the title role [...]

Last fall, I was in Amsterdam with my parents and sister on a family trip, our first in more than a decade. Because travelling with your family as an adult [...]

Erly in the summer of 2010, Hassan Rasouli, a 59-year-old engineer, had a problem with his right ear. He noticed sounds were coming in muffled and indistinct, as if through [...]

BOB BARCLAY, 80, RETIRED HYDRO LINEMAN, AND ENA BARCLAY, 77. PAID $8,000 FOR THEIR MOBILE HOME 45 YEARS AGO Bob Barclay grew up near where Twin Pines is now, when [...]

By Nicholas Hune-Brown | Photographs by Daniel Ehrenworth On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had [...]

On a warm morning last September, the managers of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel had a PR problem. The Toronto International Film Festival had just begun, and celebrities were trickling [...]

On a Sunday last November, Christine Munro was putting the Christmas tree up early, just like she does every year, when two police officers came to her door. Christine is [...]

ON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 30, at around 7:45, three keepers entered the elephant enclosure at the Toronto Zoo to begin their daily routine. The elephants live on a dusty [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wait a second. Isn't pot illegal? Well, yes, but that hasn't stopped Dominic Cramer, also known as the Mayor of Yongesterdam, from building a respectable retail empire of […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON THE EVENING OF APRIL 12, Wilson Chan, the managing editor of Sing Tao Daily, and his editorial team gathered in their stark, fluorescent-lit office at Adelaide and […]

The article analyzes factors that make Canadian education attractive to international students, exponential growth in the international education industry and exploitation of these students by employers.

The article reports on the contributions of several women in the climate change mitigation including emergency room (ER) doctor Courtney Howard, First Nations Chief Patricia Faries, and millennial Catherine Gauthier.

Late on a Thursday night last September, I was at home in bed smoking a joint and streaming an episode of Louie--an objectively ideal way to end a workday--when a [...]

IT WAS 11 IN THE MORNING on a warm Friday in September when a 16-year-old boy named Akash Wadhwa plunged from the Mavis Road overpass onto the busy 401. Shortly [...]

Adapting any novel for the stage is a tricky thing, a task the British writer Sebastian Faulks recently likened to 'trying to turn a painting into a sculpture.' Stories that [...]

On April 26,1970, Stephen Sondheim trampled the sentimental musical comedy. That night, Company, a non-linear, nearly plotless show about a commitment-phobic New York bachelor and his married friends, opened with [...]

THE FIRST TIME CHILINA KENNEDY AUDITIONED for Maria in West Side Story at the Stratford festival, she was uncharacteristically calm. Why stress over an audition when you have no shot […]

The article reports on the death of Canadian filmmaker Rob Stewart. It mentions the circumstances of Stewart's death while filming underwater for his new documentary "Sharkwater Extinction," the efforts by his friends and family to finish the film and distribute it, and the negligence lawsuit against dive instructor Peter Sotis.

Information about the New York Toy Fair that was held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, New York City from February 13-16, 2016, is presented. Topics include the three-dimensional (3D) printing toy machine, the build-your-own-structure toys and the educational toys. The symposium featured several attendees including Patrick Heembrock, Conor Forkan, and Robert O'Brien.

There's a reason folkies yelled 'Judas' when Dylan went electric. When your favourite artist--the person whose tastes and values and soul seemed so perfectly aligned with your own--takes a musical [...]

THE JOURNAL of Behavioral Medicine tells us what humans have always known--singing in groups is good for you. Sing and immune-boosting proteins come flooding through your bloodstream. Psychophysiological changes take [...]

The article discusses how Canadian-Korean director In s Choi developed the television program "Kim's Convenience," a single-camera comedy about a Korean-Canadian family, and whether the show can help fix diversity problem in television.

The article offers the author's insights on the possible ending of marijuana prohibition in the U.S. and Canada. The author says that Colorado and Washington have voted to legalize marijuana which allows patients to use it as medical treatment. He mentions that Canada has eliminated its medical marijuana program to license commercial operations. He argues that the efforts will allow the government to stop individual marijuana producers.

The article focuses on Sam Berg, a former junior hockey player who agreed to be a representive in a class-action lawsuit against all three major hockey leagues managed by the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) on alleged failure to provide minimum wage, holiday pay, and other labor rights violations.