The only place to find reported, fact-checked biographies and platform summaries for every candidate running in the 2026 Toronto municipal election.

It grew from a basketball tournament to a wide-ranging community organization — and is still growing.

Ahead of this week’s vote on whether to freeze data-centre development for a year, city councillors seeking re-election are suddenly taking a firm stance in response to public outcry

Toronto has a history of dismissing trans politicians as fringe candidates. In Toronto Centre, Nicki Ward is fighting for a fair shot.

Five years after Queen’s Park unanimously voted to end the practice, families say they’re still being kept from their loved ones as punishment for complaining about care—with no clear legal recourse.

Parents held coordinated rallies on Thursday against a provincially-supported bid to gain the right to redevelop school lands to allow mid-rise developments

The Star has for decades used freedom of information legislation to hold governments to account.

Post-secondary institutions will be allowed to increase their tuition fees by two per cent per year for three years, before switching to an inflation-informed increase after that.

At corporate pharmacies like Shoppers Drug Mart, pharmacists say they face overwhelming pressure from their parent companies to perform medically unnecessary tasks in the interest of profit.

From erectile dysfunction medicine to hair loss treatment to weight loss drugs—a thriving online market has emerged to seamlessly deliver drugs straight to your door. But what happens when prescriptio...

See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas

The slump in housing starts – 62,561 in 2025 – is also an all-time low since the Ford government promised to build 1.5 million homes during the 2022 provincial election

An Ontario court says it is reasonable to conclude Premier Doug Ford uses his personal cellphone to communicate and that he should make those records public.

In the age of streaming, Eyesore Cinema is building a business and a growing community around a rental-DVD shop. Daniel Hanna is the owner and founder of one of Toronto’s last video rental stores. Peo...

Northwest Toronto's newly-opened light-rail transit (LRT) line is getting its first taste of rush hour Monday — but it doesn't appear to be rushing.

The vocalist known as Grindmother became a viral sensation in 2015 after screaming on her son's record.

While the net result on residential hydro bills is minimal, the increase in the rebate will cost taxpayers an estimated $2 billion more per year — meaning power subsidies will

Comparing the 2024 budget to 2025's Fall Economic Statement shows the number of new homes from 2024 to 2027 has been revised down by 82,000.

Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF

Labour Minister David Piccini and his predecessor altogether granted the company and developers’ association upwards of $5.75 million

St. Michael’s Hospital redevelopment was among several projects that government agency awarded to now-defunct construction firm

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief on losing his family, and why Israel is targeting journalists

Since a flare-up in emergency room closures in July 2022, Ontario Health has required hospitals to notify it if they are forced to shutter any major department to the public.

Ontario’s Bill 33 mandates merit-based admissions and gives the province unprecedented power over university and college operations. Is it part of a broader right-wing crackdown on campuses?

A newly minted Toronto Urban Design Award winner, 1120 Ossington proves that a simple, boxy building can be beautiful — and deeply humane.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The warning is included in previously unreported audits. Therme says it doesn't reflect the strong financial footing of the global business.

If not for the efforts of journalists, the world would know little of what has been happening in Gaza.

The Green Lane Landfill, where our city’s trash goes, is set to hit maximum capacity in the next 10 years. And here’s why it has become virtually impossible to replace it.

Records obtained by The Local reveal the TDSB's use of unqualified emergency replacements jumped more than 1,100 percent since COVID.

Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalist

An internal assessment of the plan determined that burrowing a tunnel under the highway would face technical and financial problems and could pose 'risks to public safety.'

“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-tot...

Ontario ordered five Toronto safe injection sites to close. Here’s what’s been happening on the streets since, July 19