Today in Nicole Kidman

Today in Plantagenets

Staid German broadsheets get spicy on Sundays.

Challengers or, as I like to call it, The Faist and the Bi-curious

On Friday’s Toronto Star A1: An Ontario college slashes programs amid a drop in revenue from international students: Nicholas Keung 姜巧樂 Kristin Rushowy report. Plus: MPP Sarah Jama defies the Speaker’s ban on kaffiyehs in the legislature (📸 Kristin Rushowy). And Bruce Arthur remembers Bob Cole.

Today in cavalry

Heavy Arizona news day

On Thursday’s Toronto Star A1: How “supertall” towers will change Toronto’s skyline and its housing market: Ana Pereira reports (📸 Andrew Francis Wallace). Plus: Robert Cribb on an organized crime probe. And Wendy Gillis on questions left in the wake of Umar Zameer’s trial.

Today in bonjour-hi

On Wednesday’s Toronto Star A1: Police Chief Myron Demkiw walks back comments about the verdict in Umar Zameer’s trial: Wendy Gillis reports. Plus: Nicholas Keung 姜巧樂 on visitor visas and asylum claims. And the former publisher of the National Enquirer testifies at Donald Trump’s trial.

Today in flying salmon

On Monday’s Toronto Star A1: A judge apologizes to Umar Zameer as he is acquitted in the death of Toronto police Const. Jeffrey Northrup: betsy powell Kenyon Wallace report, 📸 Andrew Francis Wallace. Plus: Noor Javed on Peel Region. And Francine Kopun on the fight over volleyball courts.

The Tortured Pesto Department

I’m not going to look at the cherry blossoms for Christ’s sake I already saw the eclipse wasn’t that enough??

Still thinking about the insane Air Canada security video that shows passengers reviewing the safety card while herding cattle, donning oxygen masks on the P.E.I. coast, turning on airplane mode beneath the northern lights

On Thursday’s Toronto Star A1: The tale behind the biggest gold heist in Canadian history: Omar Mosleh Peter Edwards & Andy Takagi report. Plus: Nicholas Keung 姜巧樂 on temp. foreign workers. betsy powell on the trial in a police officer’s death. And Bruce Arthur on Jontay Porter’s NBA ban.

I love how Brits say “at the weekend” like it’s a fun little nightclub.

On Wednesday’s Toronto Star A1: Tonda MacCharles Alex Ballingall 🫨 Susan Delacourt (real) break down the federal budget, with more coverage inside (📸 Sean Kilpatrick). Plus: Lex Harvey on drivers feeling the pain from new Gardiner lane closures.