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Doughnuts don’t need a special day to be celebrated in Toronto — they’re basically a breakfast staple, right up there with a double-double. But...

Rob Ford has been ousted as mayor of Toronto after a judge found him guilty of breaching conflict of interest law. He’ll still have his seat for 14 days to allow for a transition period, though it’s unclear what, exactly, will happen next. We’ve rounded up some of our favourite Twitter reactions below.

Governments in Canada are founded on the principle that those holding elected positions will act honourably. Hence the frequently heard epithet “honourable member.”

The movie trailer for Run This Town, a film about a young male journalist looking for his big break in the Rob Ford era...

Considering the scandals that continue to plague city hall with Rob Ford as mayor, his refusal to respond to his critics in a way that would put concerned local residents at ease, and the need to return to the business at hand to make Toronto better, I’ve drafted two correspondences, two paths for Mr. Ford.

Clayton Ruby to argue conflict of interest case that could turf mayor

Many Torontonians were eagerly anticipating today’s Rob Ford verdict, but writer Matt Baram was a special case: the plot of his new satirical show, It’s a Wonderful Toronto: The Rob Ford Holiday Spectacular!, hinged on whether the mayor was ousted or not. Needless to say, Baram is doing some rewriting.

One way to get a lot of publicity for Toronto is to have the mayor in a video that seems to show he is smoking crack cocaine.

Who in their right mind would call Rob Ford the “art mayor?” Rob Sysak, executive director of the West Queen West BIA, that’s who. Sysak says the city’s new graffiti management plan is so great that Ford will be known as the art mayor because of it. Seriously. Rob Ford. Our mayor.

To those who've been meditating in sensory deprivation chambers for the past six hours, it's official: Our mayor did, indeed, smoke that crack. The now-infamous words have come from the man himself just hours ago as he confessed to doing the drug before an army of reporters at city hall. Naturally, Toronto has taken its opinions to the Twittersphere en masse, so we took the liberty of picking 10 of the funniest (and obviously most impassioned) of those tweets. Grab some popcorn and enjoy.

Rob Ford has been the mayor of Toronto for close to three years now, and in that time he’s been lambasted, lampooned and ridiculed by the best of them. So if you’re looking to have a little fun at the mayor’s expense this Halloween, you’re going to need to be original. In short, it’s time to step up your Rob Ford costume game.

Toronto’s culinary scene got a major boost with the launch of Nobu last August, and now Nobu Hotel Toronto is open. This is Canada's...