Toronto Life’s most-read feature stories of 2016

Toronto Life’s most-read feature stories of 2016

Over the past year, Toronto Life’s reporters have written devastating personal essays, gripping true-crime features and piercing profiles. Here, for your post-Christmas reading enjoyment, are the ten feature-length Toronto Life stories that were most popular with readers in 2016. Click on the photos or headlines to read them.

The 10 most-read feature stories of 2016:

 
Best Restaurants Toronto 2016

1) Best New Restaurants 2016


 

Rohinie Bisesar

2) Behind the murder that shocked Bay Street


 

Spend Generation

3) Young, rich and totally not buying a house


 

John Hofsess

4) I helped eight people end their lives. By the time you read this, I’ll have ended mine


 

Hell and Back

5) My decade-long coke addiction, and how I got sober


 

Matty Matheson
Photograph by Daniel Ehrenworth

6) The life (and near-death) of bad-boy chef Matty Matheson


 

Lauren McKeon

7) I was raped three times. I knew all of my attackers. And I never told the police


 

Above: Todd Howley dumped Paul Maasland’s body at the Morrow Drive boat launch in Bracebridge

8) How an entrepreneur killed his blue-blood investor and dumped the body in Muskoka


 

Segun Akinsanya

9) My life in street gangs


 

Eleanor McCain and Jeff Melanson

10) Eleanor McCain and Jeff Melanson’s $5-million breakup is Toronto’s messiest