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Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd always wanted to be a cop, and she loved the job. Even when her fellow officers started harassing her, she said nothing at first. That's the code--you don't [...]

Let's face it: Canada is going through a rough patch. More people are living here than ever before at a time when it's harder to live here than ever before. [...]

Ever since Elon Musk first floated the idea of a hyperloop--a vacuum-tube-train network that's faster, greener and cheaper than air travel--companies around the world have been racing to develop this [...]

Jordan Bitove and Paul Rivett promised to lead the Toronto Star into a golden era. Within two years, their big egos and clashing visions nearly tore the company apart. Inside [...]

HUNDREDS OF TENANTS, STRUGGLING TO AFFORD SKYROCKETING RENTS, ARE REFUSING TO PAY THEIR LANDLORDS AT ALL. THEY CALL IT A RENT STRIKE. THE LANDLORDS SAY IT'S ILLEGAL. AN INSIDE LOOK [...]

We've all felt that twinge of annoyance when Toronto masquerades as someplace else on screen. But, lately, the city has been starring as itself. This year, Turning Red beamed cotton-candy-coloured [...]

STEVEN DEL DUCA is a wonkish, little-known, walking, talking dad joke. He's also a shrewd political operator who has spend decades plotting to become premier. He's finally got his shot. [...]

The iconoclastic biologist Derrick Rossi founded Moderna and helped pioneer mRNA technology. Now his discovery is fuelling a multi-billion-dollar industry. Call it the year of the jab. Between December 2020, [...]

Ghost kitchens operate out of strip mall warehouses, lofts, trucks and trailers. They don't have dining rooms, tables or servers. And they're keeping the restaurant industry afloat SOME OF THE [...]

This document provides information on eight different Canadian cities that offer affordable housing options. The first four cities mentioned are Charlottetown, Halifax, St. Catharines, and Quebec City. Charlottetown is experiencing a population boom and offers affordable detached homes. Halifax has seen a rise in housing prices but remains accessible due to development in its outskirts. St. Catharines is experiencing a reverse migration with new jobs and affordable housing options. Quebec City is a tech hub with affordable housing in historical neighborhoods. The next four cities mentioned are Sherbrooke, Kingston, Fredericton, and Windsor. Sherbrooke is described as a picturesque spot with bike paths, beaches, and a nature reserve. Kingston is highlighted for its recent building boom and affordable homes in neighborhoods like Polson Park and Hillendale. Fredericton is presented as a bargain option with a median house price of $304,000 and a high income per capita. Windsor is described as a desirable place to live with increasing house prices, new developments, and a connection to Detroit. Each city is also described in terms of its cultural attractions and amenities. [Extracted from the article]

Disease. Starvation. Staff walkouts Since the pandemic started, more than 2,000 residents in Ontario's seniors' homes have been left to die alone and afraid. But the problem with our long-term [...]

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1986, CANADA'S MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM HAS QUALIFIED FOR SOCCER'S MARQUEE TOURNAMENT. THE PLAYERS--AND THE COUNTRY'S RABID FANS--ARE MORE THAN READY. IF YOU ASK LONG-SUFFERING SOCCER [...]

WILDFIRES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA ARE HOTTER, BIGGER, AND DEADLIER THAN EVER. THEYARE ALSO A FRIGHTENING, ELEMENTAL FACT OF EVERYDAYLIFE. PORTRAIT OF A PROVINCE IN FLAMES Caption: DEAD WOOD The trees [...]

This article highlights the key figures and organizations in Canada's AI industry. It focuses on individuals such as Yoshua Bengio, who is working to address the potential dangers of AI and ensure its safe development. Other notable figures include Ilya Sutskever, who is dedicated to preventing AI from going rogue, and Ivan Zhang, Aidan Gomez, and Nick Frosst, co-founders of Cohere, a major player in the AI space. The article also mentions government efforts, such as the code of conduct on responsible AI development launched by François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. Additionally, it discusses the work of researchers like Alán Aspuru-Guzik, who is using AI to make medical discoveries, and Mark Daley, Chief AI Officer at Western University, who is implementing AI in various educational projects. Patricia Thaine, CEO of Private AI, is highlighted for her efforts to address privacy concerns related to AI. Finally, Mohammad Norouzi, CEO and co-founder of Ideogram, is recognized for creating advanced text-to-image models. [Extracted from the article]

To people fleeing the city for more square footage and less density, we say pfift. Pandemic or not, Toronto is thriving. Let us count the ways A PANDEMIC CAN'T DEFEAT [...]

As Toronto emerges from its Covid-induced fugue state, we'll need to rebuild the city. It's challenging, yes, but also exciting. We asked Toronto's smartest thinkers to predict how the city [...]

ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO, THE STORY GOES, SEVERAL TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONKS declared that they had discovered the centre of the universe in the mountains north of Kamloops, British Columbia. The [...]

Launching just about anything during a pandemic is a recipe for failure. Unless, that is, it's an e-sports franchise. The TORONTO DEFIANT, the newest entrant in the multi-billion-dollar world of [...]

Torontonians sang from their balconies, performed symphonies on Zoom, fetched groceries for front-line workers, hosted dance parties via FaceTime and found thousands of other ways to come together in a [...]

Transitioning to an eco-friendly lifestyle used to mean upheaval and inconvenience. Not anymore. With the proliferation of zero-packaging stores, smart strategies for energy-efficient homes, fashion designers with a sustainability-first ethos [...]

When Jill Promoli's two-year-old son died suddenly of the flu, she launched a one-woman mission to educate the world about vaccination. Then the anti-vaxxer mob came after her JILL PROMOLI [...]

'EFFICIENCIES' WAS DOUG FORD'S watch word on the campaign trail, and by golly he was going to find them. Frankly, it sounded great. Unfortunately for him, the gross misspending and [...]

As front man for the Band, he spent his life jamming with Dylan, schmoozing with Dali, partying with Scorsese. The amazing adventures of Toronto's greatest songwriter WHEN ROBBIE ROBERTSON was [...]

The delivery people who hustle for Uber Eats, Foodora and DoorDash have traded job stability for the flexibility of the gig economy. Every day, they risk their lives to deliver [...]

Google has big plans to build a Jetsonian smart city on the waterfront, and Torontonians have strong opinions about it: is it the solution to all our problems or the [...]

We're running out of spots to plug in our cars, and our electrical grid is straining under the pressure. Welcome to the electric vehicle boom. In 2017, Rob and Kim [...]

The race is on for the first commercially viable robot cars, and Uber has hired the world's top AI experts to design them in Toronto. They have big plans to [...]

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 [...]

HARDLY ANYTHING WENT DOWN in Toronto this year that didn't bear the new premier's imprimatur. Recreational pot became legal, but not before Ford steamrolled the pre-existing plans and implemented a [...]

After my son, Jack, was born, a friend texted me and said, 'Congratulations ! I'll see you when he's six.' I smiled, not knowing if he was joking. He wasn't [...]

Sophia Mathur was just nine years old when she made her first lobbying trip to Parliament Hill, in 2016. Technically speaking, it was her mother, Cathy Orlando, who was the [...]

At a recent family get-together, after my mom, a notorious kvetcher, had spent a half-hour complaining about my dad not listening to her, about the internet going out and, unbelievably, [...]

Canada's 150TH year was, in a word, full. There was a giant duck, four tiny penguins, a royal redhead and a new orange crush. Margaret Atwood went supernova, twice. We [...]

When U of T psychology professor Jordan Peterson publicly pledged never to use gender-neutral pronouns, he sparked a vicious battle on campus and beyond. The free-speech advocates say he's combating [...]

The dastardly reality TV star's flirtation with a federal leadership bid is sending the Conservative party into convulsions. There's never been a better time to be an opinionated blowhard in [...]

Sports yoga makes your home a happy place By Jason McBride ø IllustrationS by noa denmon The pandemic quarantine has left many of us feeling superstressed -- so if you've [...]

DEVAN SELVEY couldn't wait for high school to start last September. It was going to be, as they say, a fresh start. School had never been his favourite place, but [...]

Those are the starter goals of a new partnership between the global med-tech company Becton, Dickinson and Company and Ottawa Hospital, led by the facility's own Alan Forster. Robert Niven FOUNDER & CEO, CARBONCURE His carbon-capture company has impressed Bezos and Gates Since 2012, the Halifax firm CarbonCure has set its emissions-cutting sights on the cement industry, which produces about eight per cent (and rising) of the world's greenhouse gases. BlackBerry sells security software to 24 of the top 25 EV companies and recently partnered with Chinese electric car company Hozon, providing security systems for its new futuristic sports sedan. Greensoil's portfolio includes Ivy Energy (a solar-energy billing platform), smart-sensor firm Wynd and CarbonCure - another notable company you may have just heard of. 06. They're also largely responsible for the burst of AI startups in Canada: Hinton is chief scientist at the Vector Institute in Toronto, where he's fostered firms including natural-language processing firm Cohere and Deep Genomics, which uses AI to find treatments for genetic diseases. [Extracted from the article]

Lawren Harris became famous as the Group of Seven ringleader whose rugged landscapes changed Canadian identity. His lesser-known pursuits? Lavish society parties, zealous spiritualist cults and a scandalous love affair [...]

The 74-year-old city councillor has morphed into a street-savvy superstar who spouts rap lyrics on Twitter, pals around with Drake and inspires worship from teens around the world. How Norm [...]

In the mid-2000s, the Los Angeles-based entrepreneur Ethan Brown was working as a high-level manager at Ballard Power Systems, one of the world's leading hydrogen fuel-cell companies. It was a [...]

In the 2005 book uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, a collection of optimistic essays about urbanism, municipal politics and civic engagement, activist Dave Meslin published an imaginary City Hall newsletter [...]

Toronto's appetite for material delights has never been so voracious. Suddenly, we're snacking on $35 tins of Spanish cockles, checking our pets into four-star resorts and hiring TSO superstars to [...]

That lightness in the air? It's the sign of a thriving city with a grown-up at the helm. And that's only the most conspicuous thing to love in 2015. There's [...]

Since its $754-million acquisition by South Korean internet company Naver in 2021, the company has become a global juggernaut. The AI company, founded in June of 2021 by University of Toronto computer science professor Raquel Urtasun, has raised $83.5 million from Uber and OMERS ventures, among other investors. A non-profit called 4 Day Week Global is running a pilot project with 160 companies across the U.K., North America, Australia and New Zealand - including Canadian organizations such as Toronto marketing agency Praxis, Montreal architecture firm L'Abri, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada - to try out a four-day workweek with no pay cut for employees. 9 A Toronto company will churn out self-driving vehicles Waabi is poised to make driverless cars a reality. 10 Community land trusts will flex their collective power Last spring, Toronto's Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust and Circle Community Land Trust joined forces to take over management of 637 houses from Toronto Community Housing. [Extracted from the article]

Toronto has never before been so spoiled when it comes to attention-grabbing eats made without animal products. These vegan dishes are so tasty, even carnivores will bite Simple, seasonal ingredients--tomato, [...]