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She’s a 77-year-old great-grandmother who fronts a heavy metal band. Here’s why her upcoming Toronto gig will be her last The vocalist known as Grindmother became a viral sensation in 2015 after screaming on her son's record.

www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

05.12.2025 02:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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University of Toronto to create AI role named after tech pioneer Geoffrey Hinton The Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence will help the university recruit, teach and train students and inspire promising AI startups.

University of Toronto to create AI role named after tech pioneer Geoffrey Hinton

04.12.2025 01:45 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Sonia Day: I thought taking the Go train to Toronto would be easy. These are all the reasons I was wrong Why, when the GTA is clogged with cars and more and more of us want to stop driving into Toronto, do they make it so difficult for people unfamiliar with

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

03.12.2025 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Once this is gone, it’s gone’: A plan to build a condo next to this Toronto ravine has angered locals. Now, even the city may not be able to stop it The proposal breaks city regulations meant to guard environmentally sensitive areas, but the developer has appealed to the provincial land tribunal.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/onc...

02.12.2025 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us? That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

27.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How this fake Norval Morrisseau led to the collapse of Canada’s most brazen art forgery ring “Spirit Energy of Mother Earth” is the painting that started it all — the fake that brought down a forgery ring profiting off the legacy of one of the towering

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

16.11.2025 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eulogy for a speed camera: As Ontario’s ban begins, an ode to the oft-felled Parkside Drive sentry We come to bury speed cameras, with a eulogy for the ace of Toronto's automated speed enforcement fleet, the Parkside Drive speed camera.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/eul...

15.11.2025 03:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Rodney Clark became Toronto’s King of Oysters: ‘He was Order of Canada-big’ Clark, the skilled storyteller and entertainer who opened Rodney’s Oyster House in the 1980s, died last week at age 75.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

10.11.2025 23:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Renovating? This Toronto company wants to recycle your bricks and lumber — instead of sending that ‘gold’ to the landfill Think “deconstruction,” not demolition. Do it well, and it can mean the cost to the homeowner is often the same or less than a wasteful gut job.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/ren...

02.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Matt Elliott: Blue Jays’ World Series run shows Toronto is a baseball city. So why are there no batting cages left in our parks? The saga of the shuttered batting cages at Centennial Park reveals problems with the consultation and decision-making process at our municipal government.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

27.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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18 cars’ worth of microplastics flow through Toronto’s Don River every year, study finds More than 520 billion microplastics and 160 kilograms of larger plastics flow into Lake Ontario through the Don annually. Where are they coming from?

www.thestar.com/news/gta/18-...

23.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No, you don’t have a Charter right to sell magic mushrooms, Ontario judge tells fugitive behind FunGuyz dispensary chain The experience of taking a psychedelic drug is “not what freedom of thought was meant to protect,” Judge George Orsini wrote in his decision.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

22.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the deal that’s making geothermal heat go mainstream in Toronto Over the past decade, geothermal has gone from being installed in less than one per cent of new homes in Toronto to nearly 30 per cent this year, according to the Ontario Geothermal Association.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/ins...

18.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apples stuffed in strollers and half-eaten fruit tossed away: Local orchard farmers say rampant theft is ‘killing our lifestyle’ Many farmers estimate they have lost several hundreds of dollars each day in thefts that some municipal police services are considering organized crime.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/app...

18.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel How self-cleaning toilets, the pandemic and bike lanes made Toronto Bike Share a staple of the city, and how Doug Ford’s battle against bike lanes will shape its future.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

13.10.2025 23:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Condo v. Church: A story of Toronto on the steps of Sanctuary The people of Sanctuary believe they are doing the Lord's work on Charles Street East. More and more of their neighbours think the church has become part of the problem.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/con...

11.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Toronto’s push for a traffic czar has taken a turn We know what the city's new traffic officer will make. When will one make it to Toronto? A recent job posting underlines a change in direction.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

06.10.2025 22:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ottawa let car dealers file after Tesla ran the bank on Canada’s EV rebate. Then Tesla went back for more In all, Tesla claimed more than $717 million, or 27 per cent, of the $2.6 billion paid out in the iZEV rebate program.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

23.09.2025 12:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Robots. Thermochemical reactions. Great Scott! Could these new weapons help win our war on trash? With Toronto’s landfill nearing capacity, the Star spoke with researchers to see what novel waste disposal technologies are being worked on.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/rob...

22.09.2025 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sticky floors, damp seats, blaring TikToks first thing in the morning: Is this Toronto’s worst commute? The Star is testing Torontonians’ commutes to find the worst in the city. First up: Alisha, a social worker who makers her trip in from Scarborough to downtown every day.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/sti...

13.09.2025 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Forgotten Toronto: Inside the great ‘clown riots’ of 1855 — and the coverup that changed the city’s policing forever How a normal circus visit turned into a vicious battle between clowns, firefighters and the powers that ran Toronto.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...

29.08.2025 12:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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‘I don’t want anyone to forget his name’: Mother speaks out during candlelight vigil for JahVai Roy, 8, killed by stray bullet A vigil was held Thursday late afternoon to honour JahVai Roy, 8, who was killed by a stray bullet in his home on Saturday.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/i-d...

22.08.2025 02:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How a stray cat helped me leave my basement and face the world again Isolation during lockdown left daily life confined to a basement suite in Kensington Market. A stray cat’s visits sparked rare moments outside and helped ease growing anxiety.

www.thestar.com/initiatives/...

10.08.2025 20:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cheese might actually give you nightmares, study suggests. Here are other foods that may change your dreams Lactose intolerance and food allergies were linked to nightmares — but certain foods can help promote sweet dreams, a new study found.

www.thestar.com/life/health-...

10.07.2025 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is office air conditioning sexist? Why women tend to feel chillier at work than their male colleagues Many office thermostats are informed by a decades-old formula based on the metabolism of a 40-year-old man. Where does that leave women?

www.thestar.com/life/health-...

02.07.2025 14:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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25.06.2025 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘A fraud on us’: Judge challenges the defence ahead of fall verdict in $300M St. Mike’s hospital construction trial The defence argues no one has suggested John Aquino and Vas Georgiou didn’t breach the rules — rather that the rules routinely get broken in the world of high-stakes public

www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-f...

24.06.2025 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ontario doesn’t have enough wilderness firefighters. I learned what it takes to be one On a training course near Sault St. Marie, Star reporter Marco Chown Oved learned what it takes to join the firefighters facing the next big Ontario wildfire.

www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

22.06.2025 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Gather round!’ Toronto high schoolers get hands-on lesson in the lost history of Afro-Ojibwe farming “This is a history that they don’t tell you about in Canada,” Isaac Crosby says.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/gat...

21.06.2025 20:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘I want to achieve something big’: Billionaire mall owner Weihong Liu reveals plans for old Hudson’s Bay leases B.C. billionaire Weihong Liu has revealed new details about her plan to assume more than two dozen Hudson’s Bay leases.

www.thestar.com/business/i-w...

19.06.2025 11:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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