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Anthony Milton

Anthony Milton is a freelance journalist based in Toronto specializing in long-form magazine writing. He previously worked as an assistant editor at Toronto Life, where he launched the Front Row newsletter. He regularly contributes all sorts of stories to the magazine, including deep dives on sports, business and housing as well as short-form commentary on our ever-changing city, from its obsession with cherry blossoms to its maddening NIMBYism. His work has also appeared in Maclean’s, Ricochet, TVO, the Trillium and more.

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"People will feed their pets while going hungry themselves": This organization helps pet owners with the rising cost of living

“People will feed their pets while going hungry themselves”: This organization helps pet owners with the rising cost of living

Mella Brown is the program coordinator for Through Ruff Times, a group that provides pet food and boarding for those who can’t afford it. She says the need for their services is skyrocketing

"Not all trans stories are rooted in pain": Meet the directors of the Hot Docs tribute to R&B legend Jackie Shane

“Not all trans stories are rooted in pain”: Meet the directors of the Hot Docs tribute to R&B legend Jackie Shane

Documentarians Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and Michael Mabbott on Shane’s 1960s success and disappearance, working with Elliott Page, and better representing the experiences of trans people

"I used to live for meat and cheese": This nuclear analyst is trying to get the City of Toronto to go vegan

“I used to live for meat and cheese”: This nuclear analyst is trying to get the City of Toronto to go vegan

Bernie Fitzpatrick is petitioning the city to join Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Edinburgh in signing the Plant Based Treaty

"Christianity was a radical, socialist, queer idea from the get-go": A Q&A with Anthony Oliveira on his biblical new novel, Dayspring

“Christianity was a radical, socialist, queer idea from the get-go”: A Q&A with Anthony Oliveira on his biblical new novel, Dayspring

The comic book writer and author talks growing up queer under Catholicism, finding humour in the Bible and learning self-acceptance from X-Men

"You have to become Alice—the audience knows if you're faking it": A Q&A with Tirion Law, lead ballerina in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“You have to become Alice—the audience knows if you’re faking it”: A Q&A with Tirion Law, lead ballerina in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The National Ballet of Canada soloist talks warm-up routines, cheat meals and how to tell a story using body language

"I don't think novels have messages": A Q&A with Sheila Heti

“I don’t think novels have messages”: A Q&A with Sheila Heti

Heti's new novel, The Alphabetical Diaries, is an experiment in imposing spreadsheet rigour on the messiness of a daily journal. Here, she talks autofiction, favourite Toronto bars and using mushrooms for pre-publication anxiety

“At home, our theatre doubles as our bomb shelter”: A National Ballet of Ukraine dancer on touring across Canada

“At home, our theatre doubles as our bomb shelter”: A National Ballet of Ukraine dancer on touring across Canada

Award-winning dancer Nikita Sukhorukov talks about performing in wartime, representing Ukraine abroad and raising money for refugees

“The voices of refugee claimants will be critical”: Meet Toronto’s new deputy ombudsman for housing

“The voices of refugee claimants will be critical”: Meet Toronto’s new deputy ombudsman for housing

Reema Patel is taking up the brand-new mantle of housing watchdog. Her first task: investigating the city’s decision to turn asylum seekers away from shelters

"I'd like to move back to Toronto—if the city stops pricing out its artists": A Q&A with musical polymath Jeremy Dutcher

“I’d like to move back to Toronto—if the city stops pricing out its artists”: A Q&A with musical polymath Jeremy Dutcher

Ahead of his December 9 show at Massey Hall, Dutcher talks about his latest album, being two-spirit and writing music in both English and Wolastoqey

“There’s a pack mentality at city hall”: Councillor Stephen Holyday on why Etobicoke should keep its coat of arms

“There’s a pack mentality at city hall”: Councillor Stephen Holyday on why Etobicoke should keep its coat of arms

Chief Stacey LaForme of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation has called the crest’s depiction of a shirtless Indigenous man offensive, and city staff have called for its removal

"I don’t get nerves anymore—I’ve been doing this for a long time": Principal dancer Heather Ogden on the National Ballet's production of Emma Bovary

“I don’t get nerves anymore—I’ve been doing this for a long time”: Principal dancer Heather Ogden on the National Ballet’s production of Emma Bovary

Ahead of the show’s opening on November 11, Ogden talks about the adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s classic French novel and showbiz superstitions

"Some of my skate friends are 10 and some are 50": Meet 13-year-old skateboarding phenom Fay DeFazio Ebert

“Some of my skate friends are 10 and some are 50”: Meet 13-year-old skateboarding phenom Fay DeFazio Ebert

Fresh off her gold medal win at the Pan Am Games, Ebert talks good luck charms, the best bowls in Toronto and setting her sights on Paris 2024

This server and event cook makes $24,500 a year on minimum wage. How does she spend it?

This server and event cook makes $24,500 a year on minimum wage. How does she spend it?

“I’m making more per hour since the minimum wage increase, but the price of fruits and vegetables just keeps going up”

The Questionnaire: Four commercial real estate execs on getting employees back to the office

The Questionnaire: Four commercial real estate execs on getting employees back to the office

“The really good offices actually have low vacancy rates—it’s the less good ones that are empty”

"It can be a struggle to get health care": Filmmaker M. H. Murray on bringing the realities of HIV treatment to TIFF

“It can be a struggle to get health care”: Filmmaker M. H. Murray on bringing the realities of HIV treatment to TIFF

Murray’s debut feature film, I Don’t Know Who You Are, follows a Toronto artist scraping together money for preventative treatment after being sexually assaulted

"Being budget chief is an honour—but there's also a sense of dread": A Q&A with Councillor Shelley Carroll

“Being budget chief is an honour—but there’s also a sense of dread”: A Q&A with Councillor Shelley Carroll

Toronto’s newly appointed fiscal czar dishes on why the city needs new taxes, playing hardball with Queen’s Park and Ottawa, and how her grandkids keep her grounded in a chaotic time

Inside the Illuminarium, Toronto’s new immersive art exhibit

Inside the Illuminarium, Toronto’s new immersive art exhibit

Is it VR without the goggles? A walk-through video game? The coolest bar ever?

“The artists hope aliens will love their work”: Meet the Torontonian sending over 100,000 pieces of art into space

“The artists hope aliens will love their work”: Meet the Torontonian sending over 100,000 pieces of art into space

Engineer and sci-fi anthologist Samuel Peralta is the founder of the Lunar Codex, a project that’s sending paintings, poems, music and films to live on the moon for at least 10,000 years

“We call it the Tinder of real estate”: This app uses AI to help you house-hunt

Real Estate News

“We call it the Tinder of real estate”: This app uses AI to help you house-hunt

Benjy Katchen is the founder of Wahi, an app that uses artificial intelligence to help buyers navigate the real estate market—and even earn part of their own commission

“We need to take a sober second look”: Councillor James Pasternak on his opposition to the Alcohol in Parks Pilot Program

“We need to take a sober second look”: Councillor James Pasternak on his opposition to the Alcohol in Parks Pilot Program

The councillor for York Centre discusses his qualms with drinking in public parks, Toronto’s many nonsensical bylaws and his dream of tax-free booze for all

Seven of Toronto's best new microbakeries

Seven of Toronto’s best new microbakeries

Including one that makes adorable smiley face bread

“I’m really into planetary defence”: Meet the 13-year-old whose science project could protect Earth from asteroids

“I’m really into planetary defence”: Meet the 13-year-old whose science project could protect Earth from asteroids

Middle-schooler Arushi Nath created code that gathers crucial information about space rocks—it’s earned her six different awards. Next up, representing Canada at an international science competition

“This is not what Ontario wants”: These protesters are demanding that Doug Ford address the affordability and health care crises

“This is not what Ontario wants”: These protesters are demanding that Doug Ford address the affordability and health care crises

Fed-up nurses, teachers and social workers say the Ontario government is mangling policy on health care, education, housing, public service wages and more

“I can see a world where we end up with robot doctors”: Meet the researcher investigating the future of AI in medicine

“I can see a world where we end up with robot doctors”: Meet the researcher investigating the future of AI in medicine

U of T professor Rahul Krishnan on using AI to shorten wait times, the potential for deep fakes in health care and the dangers of teaching robots human biases

Summer Camp Guide

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages

Best New Restaurants

Toronto Life ’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8

Toronto Life’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8

General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks

Big Stories

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of Saturday Night Live in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

It’s hard out here for a 20-something

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks

Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes

Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes

If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”

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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

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For Sale: 112 Mildenhall Rd

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