Nishit Parikh says he “can finally afford a house in Toronto” after he won a $55 million Lotto Max Jackpot. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) announced Friday that the 30-year-old Toronto resident won the jackpot on the Aug. 5 draw.

Life has pretty much gone back to normal (or some version of the "new normal" we were all promised post-lockdown times) for many in Toronto, now that offices have reopened, and we're allowed to see our friends in real life again at desirable venues of our choosing.

The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong.

Car-dependent suburbs suck. But that doesn't mean that all suburbs suck. It is possible to build suburbs that don't suck, and the US and Canada used to design great suburbs all the time. But even though these pre-war suburbs are loved by many people, and in huge demand, they're illegal to build today.

A Toronto designer created a pair of shoes that eventually turn into an apple tree afer he spent seven years in the fashion industry and looked for...

A 19th-century bordello brouhaha led to big changes for Toronto's police force.

Ontario's professional sports teams can resume training at club facilities as the provincial government says they are looking forward to seeing athletes return to play in the "not-too-distant future."

A weekend of extreme violence in Toronto has renewed calls for a national ban on handguns. But the federal Liberals are deferring action until after the fall election.

Illegal cannabis storefronts have persisted in Toronto despite raids and attempts to bar the store's entryways using other means, including steel doors. Now, there's a new weapon in the city's battle against illegal dispensaries: giant cement blocks. 

Project with Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy and data harvesting

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The Rev. Gretta Vosper hadn’t noticed the giant industrial metal cross rising in front of her church for years, hidden as it was by a bushy tree. But then someone complained about it. Since Ms. Vosper does not believe Jesus was the son of God, the complainer wrote in an email, she should take the cross down. “The next day, a storm took the tree out,” she said, peering up at the cross with a benign smile.

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A cautionary tale about big money, long hours and a cultish devotion to tequila shots and team spirit

While the city says the problem is “uncommon,” it created a step-by-step guide for dealing with what resident Jenny Serwylo calls “the most Toronto thing that’s ever happened.”

A judge has sentenced York Regional Police officer Remo Romano to eight months in jail for dangerous driving causing death in the killing of Natasha "Carla" Abogado. Later in the day, an appeal court judge granted bail to Det.-Const. Romano, who plans to appeal both the sentence and the conviction.

One of the world’s largest flowers, known as the “corpse flower”, will bloom at the Toronto Zoo – a first for the zoo and the city. The corpse flower, officially titled Amorphophallus titanum, has been recorded as having the world’s tallest bloom. It is also known for its tremendous pungent smell; Toronto Zoo officials have likened it to that of rotting meat.

A brothel is set to open in Toronto’s north end, but the sex workers won’t be real women but instead high-tech sex dolls made of silicone.

These activists are fighting what they see as an Orwellian takeover.

Premier Doug Ford is slashing the size of Toronto city council almost in half before the October election, the Star has learned. In a stunning development, Ford is also cancelling planned regional chair elections in Peel and York, thwarting the ambitions of his political foe Patrick Brown, the former Progressive Conservative leader, as well as those of former Liberal cabinet minister Steven Del Duca.