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When York police raided an underground casino in a Markham mansion, it was their biggest gambling bust ever. Then their investigation came Crashing down. THE HOUSE AT 5 Decourcy Court [...]

Recently I stumbled across a file of conversations I'd recorded with my seven-year-old son Frank back when he was four. Topics include his travels through wormholes, why he finds planet [...]

Shaun MacDonald was an ambitious tech innovator whose start-up was going to revolutionize the crypto economy. His wealthy investors had no idea that their charismatic founder was really Boaz Manor, [...]

Last August, LINDA AND KEVIN O'LEARY were boating home from a dinner party in Muskoka and collided with a pontoon boat full of stargazers, killing two people. The accident triggered [...]

The supermodel's imperious gaze came to define the '90s. Now, she says a cosmetic procedure has stolen her looks, her livelihood, her very identity. So whose fault is that? LAST [...]

FRANK STRONACH spent decades grooming his daughter, BELINDA, to take over his billion-dollar business. He lavished her with money, praise and executive power. Then he accused her of betraying him. [...]

UNTIL THE START of this year, Chrystia Freeland was Justin Trudeau's most high-profile cabinet minister. That changed in February when Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former attorney general and minister of justice, [...]

In 1980, a popular news story swept the US media. It was about three college-age boys--Eddy, David and Bobby--who, through a series of coincidences, had discovered they were identical triplets [...]

At Soulpepper, Albert Schultz was a suave and successful impresario who could charm millions out of wealthy donors. Then four actresses accused him of sexual harassment. The inside story of [...]

If you believed Hollywood, you'd think the world was madly in love with harried, struggling single mothers. I mean, who doesn't love Erin Brockovich? Or Renee Zellweger's character in Jerry [...]

Five shots ultimately took her life. But before that, a justice system completely failed to protect her. The shooting death of 25-year-old Darian Henderson-Bellman in Brampton, Ont., last July was [...]

At 19, he killed his father while high on drugs. His case has reignited a historic battle over victims' rights and criminal law. FOUR DAYS AFTER Christmas in 2015, Thomas [...]

Raveena Aulakh was a talented Toronto Star reporter who fell in love with a married senior staffer. When their relationship ended badly, she left a suicide note in her desk, [...]

Mark Carney's stint as governor of the Bank of England is ending. Ottawa, here he comes. The morning I meet Mark Carney is the first clear bright day in London [...]

In November, eight of the United Kingdom's largest health care providers banded together to warn they would be unable to prevent drug shortages in the event of a no-deal Brexit. [...]

I knew him to be a charming, if temperamental, narcissist who desperately wanted to be adored--and he was, until it all came crashing down. Now he's surrounded by a small [...]

It seems like every 30-something couple has an embarrassing financial secret: their boomer parents are covering their mortgages, child-care costs and other expenses. Confessions of a propped up generation ERICA [...]

Charles Spencer is the guardian of his family's grand home, Althorp, and his sister Diana's memory. Now he's investigating a historic royal manhunt. There are few experiences more oddly intimidating [...]

AT THE END OF 2011, DAVID MIRVISH was itching for a new venture. He wanted to take on something grand, something unprecedented, a legacy project that would bring together his [...]

Next week my compatriots will cast our votes in what has arguably been the worst Canadian election ever. By 'worst' I don't mean allegations of voter fraud or political corruption [...]

Six years ago, when Daniela Syrovy became pregnant with her first child, she planned to take a maternity leave. She would step away from Clutch, her fledgling public relations business, [...]

Katherine Ryan's website is a total joke. Which is to say it makes a mockery of the celebrity bio/news/airbrushed-picture format de rigueur for pop stars and actors. Under a satirical [...]

IN THE CITY'S NEW FIVE-STAR HOTEL LANDSCAPE, THE Ritz represents elegant European classicism, the Shangri-La cool, Asian chic, and the Trump unfettered American pomp. Like its loud-mouthed namesake, the Trump [...]

My husband and I spent the last eight months of our marriage in couples counselling. We were in London then, splitting our time between the U.K. and Toronto, where I [...]

ONE EVENING LAST NOVEMBER, at the Sotheby's auction in the ROM's Currelly Gallery, Ash Prakash entered into a heated bidding war with David Loch, a Winnipeg-based art dealer. The coveted [...]

TORONTO, unlike Rioor Montreal, never had a reputation as a party town. The late society figure Anna Maria de Souza worked harder than anyone else to change that. Her annual [...]

It's fitting, somehow, that in all of the spectacular moments designed to elicit a laugh from the Queen last weekend--a flotilla of boats on the Thames, a giant flaming bonfire [...]

The latest project of the gold magnate Peter Munk is a seaside resort and tax haven for fellow billionaires in the post-Soviet backwater of Tivat, Montenegro. A delirious tour of [...]

GIL BLUTRICH BELIEVES in destiny. When he was a boy growing up in Ra'anana, a town north of Tel Aviv, he spent a lot of time fantasizing about what he [...]

WHEN PRINCE WILLIAM and Kate step off the Canadian Forces jet in Ottawa this week, the global fashion industry will be watching. Their laser-like scrutiny will not stem from any [...]

In February 2010, Joshua Latner was alerted by several friends about a photo posted on the Internet. He sat down at his computer, Googled himself and was disturbed to find [...]

ONE KISS WAS not enough. As a sea of well-wishers roared their approval, the newlywed duke and duchess of Cambridge felt the people's love-and returned it. It was the second [...]

On an unseasonably warm evening in October, Chloe Marcelle decided to walk to work. Her slim figure encased in a silk blouse, silver-speckled Chanel leather skirt, net stockings and black [...]

One evening last March, Toronto's stylish set put on their best frocks and headed to a retail baptism. Sarah Jessica Parker, celebrity high priestess of fashion, was in town to [...]

On the last night of August 2009, Michael Bryant and his wife, Susan Abramovitch, celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary. As date nights go, it was cheap--a dinner of shawarma and [...]

The mother of a little girl in my son's year at school recently committed suicide. On the surface she was a radiant person, smiling and full of light. Devoted to [...]

Parents send their kids to Toronto French School so they can be rigorously groomed to join the ranks of the international elite. But the school's sterling reputation was tarnished after [...]

An Italian friend who lives in Rome texted me to ask about the current political crisis in Canada that is threatening to topple the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin [...]

Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May held her first cabinet meeting after the summer recess at her official country residence, Chequers, in Buckinghamshire. The purpose of the meeting, she [...]

Many Western countries, Canada, the U.S. and Britain among them, are currently facing a housing crisis when it comes to middle- to low-income residents. A combination of soaring real estate [...]

Much has been made in the post-Brexit political chaos, now settling into a dull but throbbing national hangover, of the unexpected ascendance of women in British politics. After a referendum [...]

We got our country back. So now what? This was the prevailing sensation across Great Britain as the nation woke up last Friday morning to a referendum result that, it's [...]

Muirfield Golf Club in East Lothian, Scotland, is one of the finest courses in the world and arguably the best in the United Kingdom. But it will not be hosting [...]

Is there any difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism? This is the question gripping the British media and splitting the U.K.'s beleaguered official opposition Labour Party this week. The philosophical query [...]

There are few events that get British politicians' proverbial knickers in a twist more than a visit from the cool, handsome Leader of the Free World. Last Friday, when U.S. [...]

How did U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron get ahead? Until now, his father's tax shelter didn't hurt Day after day, for most of last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron [...]

The predominantly Muslim district of Molenbeek in Brussels is like a separate city state, spread across six square kilometres, and with a population of close to 100,000, it is nearly [...]

If Scotland had voted for independence a year and a half ago it would now be about to officially separate from the U.K., a transformation that Scottish nationalists sold to [...]

Britain's European Union membership referendum will take place in June and public debate--which has simmered within the ranks of the Conservative party ever since Britain joined the European Economic Community [...]