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Essential Bike Maintenance Every Cyclist Should Know
A bike is a beautifully simple machine, and that simplicity means most of the maintenance it needs is well within reach of any rider, no workshop or mechanic's...
Daniel Hughes
Sustainability & Policy Correspondent
Daniel is interested in how environmental policy translates into real urban change. He specializes in sustainable mobility, climate-focused city planning, and the political frameworks behind transport systems. His writing brings together data, policy analysis, and on-the-ground impact, offering a clear view of how sustainability initiatives affect everyday urban life.
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Technologies and innovations
Why the Human Brain Is Fascinated by Uncertainty
There is a peculiar tension at the heart of human behaviour. We claim to dislike uncertainty, to find it stressful and to seek it out only reluctantly, and yet...
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Canada Spent Decades Tolerating Trade Barriers With Itself — Then the Trade War Made Them Impossible to Ignore
There is a fact about the Canadian economy that sounds like a joke until you sit with it, at which point it starts to sound like a scandal: in a great many case...
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Ontario's Online Gambling Experiment Just Hit 91% — and Alberta Is About to Run the Same Test at a Third of the Size
When Ontario opened its competitive online gambling market in April 2022, the central argument for doing so was a single statistic: roughly three quarters of th...
Sports
The Maple Leafs Have the First Overall Pick and the Most Interesting Offseason in Franchise History — Here Is What Actually Happens Next
The Toronto Maple Leafs have not selected first overall in the NHL Draft since 2016, when they took Auston Matthews and started the era that just ended without...
Sports
The Raptors Lost to Cleveland in Seven Games and the Series Told You Everything About Where This Team Is
Jarrett Allen finished Game 7 with 22 points and 19 rebounds. Fourteen of those points came in the third quarter alone — the run that turned a competitive game...
Technologies and innovations
Il Canada punta sulla sovranità dell’IA con 2 miliardi un fondo sovrano e una strategia ancora da definire
On April 28, 2026, the federal government unveiled the six pillars of Canada's long-awaited national AI strategy — a document that had been promised by the end...
Entertainment
Royale With Influence: How Pulp Fiction Rewrote Pop Culture's Script
More than three decades after Vincent and Jules first debated the metric system over breakfast, Quentin Tarantino's second feature is still echoing through our...
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Toronto's Rental Market in 2026: The Numbers, the Reality, and Who Is Actually Being Left Behind
The narrative around Toronto's rental market in 2026 has settled into a comfortable shape that does not quite fit the reality most renters are living inside. Th...
Entertainment
A Nostalgic Night of Cards Is Bringing Toronto Back to Basics
In a city that thrives on reinvention, sometimes the most compelling nights out are the ones that look backward. Toronto’s ever-evolving social scene has recent...
Politics
What California’s governor race reveals about Toronto’s media-driven political future
In most election cycles, California already attracts outsized attention. In 2026, that attention has become even more intense because the race to replace term-l...
Politics
Federal early retirement program expands as public service workforce restructuring accelerates
Canada rolls out early retirement program as public service restructuring moves into implementation phaseCanada’s federal workforce is entering a new phase of t...
Politics
Canada Revenue Agency faces pressure to reform charity audits after report highlights bias risks
A new independent report is calling for structural changes within the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), arguing that its approach to monitoring potential terrorist f...
Politics
Thousands of federal employees consider early retirement as Ottawa moves to reshape public service
A growing number of Canadian federal employees are facing a defining career decision as the government rolls out an early retirement incentive aimed at reducing...
Politics
Federal employee forced to repay payroll error as Canada prepares Dayforce rollout
A long-serving federal employee says she has become a “collateral casualty” of Canada’s ongoing payroll crisis, just as the government prepares to test a replac...
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Toronto’s Office Market Reinvents Itself Amid Crisis, Cost Pressures and Shifting Work Culture
Toronto’s commercial real estate sector is navigating a complex recovery, shaped by post-pandemic work patterns, rising costs, and unexpected disruptions such a...
Politics
Canada’s gun buyback plan faces reality as declarations fall far below expectations
Canada’s ambitious plan to remove tens of thousands of banned firearms from circulation is entering a more complex phase than policymakers initially anticipated...
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Easter Canada 2026 food prices traditions and how people celebrate today
Easter used to be one of the last holidays where tradition quietly dictated the structure of the day. What you cooked, how you gathered, even how the table look...
Breaking news
Downtown Toronto rooftop fire what caused it and what it reveals
The fire that broke out on the roof of a downtown Toronto building is not simply another isolated emergency in a large city. It is a moment that reveals how mod...
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