Anthony Milton
@tonymiltony.bsky.social
Journalist. Assistant Digital Editor at Toronto Life magazine. Words in Toronto Life, Maclean's, TVO.
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Anthony Milton
@tonymiltony.bsky.social
· May 29
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal - Toronto Life
Jontay Porter may have been a Toronto Raptor, but as the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, he was playing for another team. The story of a...
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How did Jontay Porter, a promising young big from Missouri, get banned from the NBA and implicated in a sports betting conspiracy? For @torontolife, I took a deep dive into Porter's personal history to find out.
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Attention Toronto folks! Is your home a multi-generational one? Have you embarked on a co-ownership scheme with friends? Or are you part of a housing co-op of any sort?
I'm a journalist for Toronto Life magazine, and I want to speak with you! Email me at amilton@torontolife.com.
I'm a journalist for Toronto Life magazine, and I want to speak with you! Email me at amilton@torontolife.com.
June 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Attention Toronto folks! Is your home a multi-generational one? Have you embarked on a co-ownership scheme with friends? Or are you part of a housing co-op of any sort?
I'm a journalist for Toronto Life magazine, and I want to speak with you! Email me at amilton@torontolife.com.
I'm a journalist for Toronto Life magazine, and I want to speak with you! Email me at amilton@torontolife.com.
How did Jontay Porter, a promising young big from Missouri, get banned from the NBA and implicated in a sports betting conspiracy? For @torontolife, I took a deep dive into Porter's personal history to find out.
torontolife.com/deep-dives/f...
torontolife.com/deep-dives/f...
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal - Toronto Life
Jontay Porter may have been a Toronto Raptor, but as the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, he was playing for another team. The story of a...
torontolife.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
How did Jontay Porter, a promising young big from Missouri, get banned from the NBA and implicated in a sports betting conspiracy? For @torontolife, I took a deep dive into Porter's personal history to find out.
torontolife.com/deep-dives/f...
torontolife.com/deep-dives/f...
I'm a Canadian journalist looking to interview Americans planning on moving to Canada in response to Trump's policies. If that's you, shoot me an email at anthony.milton@stjoseph.com.
February 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm a Canadian journalist looking to interview Americans planning on moving to Canada in response to Trump's policies. If that's you, shoot me an email at anthony.milton@stjoseph.com.
I'm an editor at Toronto Life looking for GTA folks who are making personal sacrifices to join the US boycott - whether that be selling US property at a loss, cancelling booked vacations, or the like. If that's you, shoot me a DM!
February 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm an editor at Toronto Life looking for GTA folks who are making personal sacrifices to join the US boycott - whether that be selling US property at a loss, cancelling booked vacations, or the like. If that's you, shoot me a DM!
Are you a migrant in the GTA impacted by the federal government's recent immigration cuts? Toronto Life magazine wants to speak with you! Send me DM here, or an email at anthony.milton @ stjoseph.com (no spaces)
January 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Are you a migrant in the GTA impacted by the federal government's recent immigration cuts? Toronto Life magazine wants to speak with you! Send me DM here, or an email at anthony.milton @ stjoseph.com (no spaces)
There's truly nothing like a good TO council meeting
"I want to use my comments to unmask what I think is a deeper philosophical conversation. I think it's about defining what a proletariat is," says Councillor Stephen Holyday.
Huh. Well. Okay. Did anyone have "proletariat" on their Council Bingo card?
Huh. Well. Okay. Did anyone have "proletariat" on their Council Bingo card?
December 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
There's truly nothing like a good TO council meeting
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Pitcher Ayami Sato, the first woman to play on a men’s pro team in Canada, on joining the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club
"Baseball is for everyone": Meet legendary pitcher Ayami Sato, the first woman to play on a men's pro team in Canada - Toronto Life
The world’s best woman pitcher on joining the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club, breaking into the sport as a young girl and why she’s crossing the world to...
torontolife.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Pitcher Ayami Sato, the first woman to play on a men’s pro team in Canada, on joining the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club
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For those who aren’t inclined to read all 941 pages of the auditor general's report, we present a holiday-themed guide to the six most ho-ho-holy crap revelations, complete with lumps of coal
A holiday-themed guide to the auditor general’s annual naughty list - Toronto Life
Lumps of coal included
torontolife.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:09 PM
For those who aren’t inclined to read all 941 pages of the auditor general's report, we present a holiday-themed guide to the six most ho-ho-holy crap revelations, complete with lumps of coal
Reposted by Anthony Milton
Rumour has it Taylor Swift made an unexpected stop at Inter Steer, a long-standing no-nonsense bar on Roncesvalles, after her final show in Toronto. But is it true?
Wait: Did Taylor Swift really visit a Toronto dive bar? - Toronto Life
1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.
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December 4, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Rumour has it Taylor Swift made an unexpected stop at Inter Steer, a long-standing no-nonsense bar on Roncesvalles, after her final show in Toronto. But is it true?
Toronto Life is on BlueSky! Follow along for all the best long reads about our fair city.
Ron Oliver is the Hallmark Channel’s most prolific, flamboyant and unapologetically sappy director
Quality Trash: Meet director Ron Oliver, Hallmark’s king of schmaltz - Toronto Life
1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.
torontolife.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Toronto Life is on BlueSky! Follow along for all the best long reads about our fair city.
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it's tuesday evening and we're korean
Absolutely zero shade at all, but why were so many reporters and politicians drunk on a Monday evening?
I am, incidentally, pretty drunk rn (the job is 24/7!!!). This is the most Korean thing I've ever done.
December 3, 2024 at 5:36 PM
it's tuesday evening and we're korean
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I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.
December 3, 2024 at 4:24 PM
I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.
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Latest by me, in today's Toronto Star. These Canadian cities are finally doing something to fix the housing crisis. Almost none are in Ontario.
www.thestar.com/opin...
www.thestar.com/opin...
These Canadian cities are finally doing something to fix the housing crisis. Almost none are in Ontario
While British Columbia and Quebec move to address the lack of housing, Ontario is going backwards.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Latest by me, in today's Toronto Star. These Canadian cities are finally doing something to fix the housing crisis. Almost none are in Ontario.
www.thestar.com/opin...
www.thestar.com/opin...
Twenty years after taking the Indie scene by storm, Tokyo Police Club is calling it quits, playing four back-to-back farewell shows this week. I spoke with singer and bassist Dave Monks and keyboardist Graham White about quitting while they're ahead:
torontolife.com/culture/toky...
torontolife.com/culture/toky...
“It’s cool to be ending the band on our own terms”: Tokyo Police Club on their farewell tour - Toronto Life
1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.
torontolife.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Twenty years after taking the Indie scene by storm, Tokyo Police Club is calling it quits, playing four back-to-back farewell shows this week. I spoke with singer and bassist Dave Monks and keyboardist Graham White about quitting while they're ahead:
torontolife.com/culture/toky...
torontolife.com/culture/toky...
Crow's has become one of Toronto's coolest theatre companies - their plays have made comedies out of City Hall bureaucracy and housing bidding wars, to hilarious effect. My interview with artistic director Chris Abraham:
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torontolife.com/culture/inte...
“There’s untapped beauty in our beleaguered democratic institutions”: Chris Abraham of Crow’s Theatre on turning the Sidewalk Labs fiasco into a hit play - Toronto Life
1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.
torontolife.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Crow's has become one of Toronto's coolest theatre companies - their plays have made comedies out of City Hall bureaucracy and housing bidding wars, to hilarious effect. My interview with artistic director Chris Abraham:
torontolife.com/culture/inte...
torontolife.com/culture/inte...
Hello newcomers! Let me introduce myself: my name is Anthony, and I'm a freelance journalist and editor living in Toronto. I write about urbanism, culture, and politics. Let me give you a tour! 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Hello newcomers! Let me introduce myself: my name is Anthony, and I'm a freelance journalist and editor living in Toronto. I write about urbanism, culture, and politics. Let me give you a tour! 🧵
Break roads
Promise to fix roads
Get re-elected
Break roads
Promise to fix roads
Get re-elected
Break roads...
www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Promise to fix roads
Get re-elected
Break roads
Promise to fix roads
Get re-elected
Break roads...
www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Draft briefing for cabinet warned bike lane changes could worsen congestion
A leaked government document says removing bike lanes in cities could backfire
www.thetrillium.ca
November 22, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Break roads
Promise to fix roads
Get re-elected
Break roads
Promise to fix roads
Get re-elected
Break roads...
www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Promise to fix roads
Get re-elected
Break roads
Promise to fix roads
Get re-elected
Break roads...
www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts
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November 20, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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I have removed
the bike lanes
that were in
the road
and which
you were probably
using
to get to work
Forgive me
they were delicious
so crunchy
and so cold
the bike lanes
that were in
the road
and which
you were probably
using
to get to work
Forgive me
they were delicious
so crunchy
and so cold
November 20, 2024 at 4:11 AM
I have removed
the bike lanes
that were in
the road
and which
you were probably
using
to get to work
Forgive me
they were delicious
so crunchy
and so cold
the bike lanes
that were in
the road
and which
you were probably
using
to get to work
Forgive me
they were delicious
so crunchy
and so cold
"We're here to protect the people who elected us"
Behold, the core incentive problem of city politics. Don't add more housing - it could mean people that would vote you out!
Behold, the core incentive problem of city politics. Don't add more housing - it could mean people that would vote you out!
"We're here to protect the people who elected us," says Councillor Stephen Holyday.
He adds: "The backlash has already started in Etobicoke Centre" about recent planning changes, saying people "don't feel included in this process."
He adds: "The backlash has already started in Etobicoke Centre" about recent planning changes, saying people "don't feel included in this process."
November 15, 2024 at 6:35 PM
"We're here to protect the people who elected us"
Behold, the core incentive problem of city politics. Don't add more housing - it could mean people that would vote you out!
Behold, the core incentive problem of city politics. Don't add more housing - it could mean people that would vote you out!
Legalizing 12-story buildings on avenues is huge and great, but note that doesn't mean *any* street ending in .Ave, which would be so much better.
I am once again asking you to demolish my childhood home.
I am once again asking you to demolish my childhood home.
Up now: increasing permissions for new mid-rise buildings on the city's avenues. Councillor Holyday has concerns. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
November 15, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Legalizing 12-story buildings on avenues is huge and great, but note that doesn't mean *any* street ending in .Ave, which would be so much better.
I am once again asking you to demolish my childhood home.
I am once again asking you to demolish my childhood home.
And they said yes. This is going to be so gloriously petty
Councillor Mike Colle moves to look at installing signs reading "This road congestion and traffic delay is the result of Premier Ford's Bill 212" in places where there's construction work to remove bike lanes.
November 15, 2024 at 6:31 PM
And they said yes. This is going to be so gloriously petty