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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford today officially opened the 90th annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

Growth in rural Caledon has divided the town's residents between those who want change and those...

Deep inside Santa's workshop, the floats are being made for the 2012 Santa Claus Parade, with...

Canadian Toy Association revealed its top 100 toys for the 2012 holiday season.

Mayor Rob Ford grows visibly agitated while discussing why he missed council for a football game...

Newly released videos provide a window into some of the treatment Ashley Smith received while in...

In the first instalment of weekly series Urban Kitchen, Corey Mintz fries up a batch of chicken...

Goalie Greg Partchenko has started what amounts to a part-time hobby as a goalie for NHL players...

Fire investigator Jeff Minten updates the progress of the clean up on Queen Street after the fire...

Barry Wadman recounts the moment a tree hit his Beach home during heavy winds. Video by Rene...

Rick Salutin on Samsung vs. iPhone

Flooding and downed trees as Sandy rips across the eastern US.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney blasted President Barack Obama's record on the...

Speaking to supporters in Ohio, President Barack Obama hailed the October job numbers as 'real...

President Barack Obama is closing the final days of the presidential campaign by declaring that...

Mitt Romney said Thursday that President Barack Obama doesn't have a clue about how business works...

Haitians struggle with the clean up of Hurricane Sandy as an aid agency warns that food security in...

A press conference was held at City Hall today by a broad-based coaliton of environmentalists and...

Imran Khan spoke about the U.S. presence in Afghanistan yesterday.

Three TTC employees voice the 5,600 voice prompts used by the TTC on subways, busses and streetcars...

Star columnist Catherine Porter takes her daughter, Lyla, to Haiti to meet Lovely, the girl whose...

Rick Salutin on Barack Obama's weak performance in the first presidential debate.

The main maker of Apple's iPhones and iPads, Taiwan's Foxconn, insists it pays its workers in China...

Obama and Romney trade jokes at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby ... and it's all on Facebook.

Jennifer Wilson hits the streets to find out whether Torontonians prefer iPhone, Android...

The iPhone 5 arrives at the Eaton's Center in Toronto and Dani Winters is first in line. Video by...

Tommy Jordan of North Carolina posted this video to YouTube, reprimanding his 15-year-old daughter...

If you tweet @torontopearson with the name and flight details of your loved one, carol singers will...

Social networks on the internet keeps the light show dancing on a Christmas tree at Union Station...

Researchers at Rutgers University have used brain scan technology to show what a woman's brain...

Video cameras in western Indonesian forests have captured 12 endangered Sumatran tigers in just two...

A new membership-based, do-it-yourself fabrication and manufacturing space allows inventors to work...

A 10-year-old girl has become the youngest person to discover a supernova, or exploding star...

This movie shows three lapping events of an adult domestic cat during its normal drinking process.

The latest and cutest additions to the Madrid Zoo, two newborn pandas, were presented to the public...

Google's has been able to condense its Street View equipment to something a hiker can carry on...

The Google street view trolley has been inside colleges, universities, museums -- and recently, to...

The iPhone 5 might be just what you wanted. But the accompanying IOS 6 maps app, not so much...

In the heated war with Tim Hortons for market share, McDonald's launches a cool smoothie.

A look at innovation in Silicon Valley by Toronto Star's Bill Schiller.

Rick Salutin reflects on why there is not more empathy from mainstream media on workers that face...

Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage Wednesday to unveil the company's latest iPad tablet.

Air Canada has ordered 37 Boeing Dreamliners. This next generation plane is a possible game changer...

The spectacular vault of the former Dominion Bank, now One King West Hotel & Residence, now serves...

New Year's Day is like Black Friday for the fitness industry. As New Years Resolutions fill gyms...

We visit FedEx's sorting hub to see what it's like as the express courier hits its peak day — the...

On the trading floor on Miracle Day.

Leafs Mike Brown shaves his beard so he can grow a moustache for "Movember."

Goalie Greg Partchenko has started what amounts to a part-time hobby as a goalie for NHL players...

Lakers guard on the star of the NBA season

The NHL-imposed deadline to save a full season has passed, and all scheduled games for November has...

With the NHL and NHLPA not talking to each other, the Star's Kevin McGran talks about the dwindling...

The Star's Kevin McGran with an update on the NHL lockout.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman proposed a deal to try to save an 82-game season.

The Star's Kevin McGran weighs in on the latest developments in the NHL lockout. October 16, 2012...

Connor McDavid is 15 and leading the OHL's Erie Otters in scoring.

Toronto Argonauts' Andrew Jones shares his favourite Grey Cup memory.

More than 100 hockey treasures will be auctioned off during a month-long sale beginning Thursday...

Sunday night's Yankees-Orioles playoff game was Baltimore's first in 15 years. We took in the view...

A new exhibit gives movie buffs a chance see a massive display of memorabilia from James Bond films...

Runners attempted to elude the undead during the Run For Your Lives! race, a 5-km, zombie-themed...

One of the actors in "Rebelle," Canada's entry in Oscar's best foreign language race, says shooting...

Joshua Jackson says he and the cast had to seek out funny moments in Ruba Nadda's political...

Billy Bob Thornton says he's the right guy to call to direct smaller stories about people. Thornton...

Octavia Spencer says the past year has been a Cinderella story. Spencer says the director of the...

The Toronto International Film Festival is a fantastic chance for dedicated fans to get up close...

Joshua Jackson says a debut at the Toronto International Film Festival puts a film on the global...

Bill Murray says it was an ambitious move playing U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in "Hyde...

The cast of "Hotel Transylvania" say working on the animated film didn't feel like work at all...

Tom Hanks says the Toronto International Film Festival is the kickoff to "everything that is...

Director Deepa Mehta says it's a big deal that "Midnight's Children" had its world premiere at the...

Tech editor Jennifer Wilson's got your best apps for Halloween.

Designer Sunny Fong talks about his latest line at Toronto Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013. Video...

Designer Arthur Mendonca talks about his latest line at Toronto Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 as...

Joe Mimran talks about his latest line and inspirations at Toronto Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013...

Evan Biddell talks about his latest line at Toronto Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013. Video by...

Kimberley Newport-Mimran talks about the Pink Tartan spring/summer 2013 line at Toronto Fashion Week...

Portrait of a community growing up - fast. A look at life in CityPlace, a model of future skyward...

Diego Fuchs and Helder Aguiar, the designers behind BLAK.I, present their first collection. Video...

The TV industry in Japan is pushing ahead with brilliant new 4K displays. But to win the next round...

Glamorous. Can I take that seat? This would never happen in Paris. It's all Stuff Fashion People...

A minute with Montreal designer Travis Taddeo before his show at Toronto Fashion Week. March 16...

Kimberly Newport-Mimran says she's returning to her Pink Tartan roots with a collection she...

A son's film tribute to a mother living with Alzheimer's, and how her joy and maternal instinct...

Sheena's Place in Toronto offers a program for middle-aged women to talk about their eating...

Nick Mcnaught is a Toronto fitness model who won his first competition this month. We will find out...

After Robert Linton was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he had an experimental electrode implanted in...

Toronto Rehab Director of Research, Geoff Fernie, explains the different virtual labs that deal...

Dr. Fred Brenneman, of Sunnybrook Hospital, explains the use of pig skin to patch up complicated...

Dr. Fred Brenneman, of Sunnybrook Hospital, explains the use of pig skin to patch up complicated...

Katherine Malcolm was badly burned from a laser hair remaoval treatment gone wrong. Video by Randy...

Katherine Malcolm was badly burned from a laser hair remaoval treatment gone wrong. Video by Randy...

Born with a congenital heart disease, Mark Bartley undergoes tests at Toronto General Hospital...

John Cooper does not need this surgery, yet he has made the decision to donate a piece of his liver...

Born with cystic fibrosis, 13-year-old Thomas Quinet needs a second double lung transplant...

Travel writer Carol Perehudoff shows that Las Vegas is not always about the casinos, lights and...

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Carol Perehudoff takes you to Banff, the jewel of the Canadian Rockies.

On one of the Thousand Islands you can find a castle that can be all yours to rent.

When it's Carnival time in Trinidad and Tobago, everyone joins in the street festival with loud...

If you’ve never thought of Ireland as a spa destination, think again. Writer Carol Perehudoff seeks...

Expat Canadian songwriter discusses the favourite aspects of her Paris neighbourhood, Menilmontant...

Writer Carol Perehudoff seeks good fortune in Hong Kong - with some unexpected twists.

Gustav Klimt's beautiful painting is deciphered by the curator of the museum where it's held.

World champion town crier Chris Whyman keeps all in Kingston informed, as TheStar.com's Adrian...

Performer Zachary Stevenson takes us on a music-fuelled journey through Texas, New Mexico and Iowa...

The Sir John A. Macdonald Walking Tour in the hometown of our first prime minister makes you feel...