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Editor’s Letter: The pull of this sometimes infuriating, always intoxicating, chaotic, dense and vibrant city
When Toronto came back to life, the Covid expats started returning home
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Editor’s Letter: The restaurant industry is back? Think again
Even the busiest places are suffering. We asked the experts how to fix the industry's many problems
City
Editor’s Letter: An ode to the new wave of creative talent coming out of this city
They're the creators behind what you're watching (and loving) right now
Real Estate
Editor’s Letter: The powerful pull of a lakeside summer
Even in a cooling market, most of us are priced out of Muskoka, Georgian Bay and the Kawarthas, but there's hope for dispirited cottage hunters
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Editor’s Letter: How a GTA teen pulled off a $46-million crypto heist
Plus, insights from a cranky starchitect, the strange allure of homesteading, and more in this month's issue
City
Letter From the Editor: The triumphant return of dining out
Restaurants give us a chance to escape the daily grind and breathe in the energy of the city
City
A word from
Toronto Life’
s new editor-in-chief
In this month’s issue: a cheat sheet on getting the most out of a re-emergent Toronto, the cheese-slinging geniuses behind the Cheese Boutique, a brave woman married off to her cousin at age 17, and much more…
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“We didn’t engage with the truckers and that seemed to make them even angrier”: what it was like to escort health care workers through the protest
"I got DMs from several adult children of health care workers saying things like, 'My mom is working a shift on Saturday. I told her to look out for your signs' "
City
Inside the hunt for Christine Jessop’s real killer
It took 36 years, three police forces and a massive search of DNA databases to finally, definitively, crack the case
City
Q&A with George Springer, the brand-new, very expensive and finally healthy Toronto Blue Jay
His record-setting deal marks a turning point for the Blue Jays from pretenders to contenders
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“I’m delivering food so people don’t have to put themselves at risk. The least they could do is say thanks”
What it's like to be an Uber Eats driver right now
Life
“It’s like finishing a marathon, then getting told to run another one”: How an infection control practitioner is adjusting to the second wave
Lauren Parsons is an infection control practitioner at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. Over the last six months, she’s worked...
Life
Classroom confessional: “The kids are scared—not just of Covid itself but of another lockdown”
Laura Thomson, a Toronto middle school teacher, on what it's been like to be back in class during this turbulent time
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Life
Adventures in real estate: “We turned our back alley into a turfed-out kids’ paradise”
Our only regret is that we didn’t think of creating it sooner
City
I worked as a Loblaws cashier at the height of the pandemic. It didn’t go well
"The soap dispenser in the men’s employee washroom ran out in my second week, and remained empty, despite requests to fill it, for all of May and the better part of June"
City
“We were caught in no-man’s land between four countries, none of which wanted us”: How a family of four became stranded in Cuba
What happens when a French-American family on sabbatical in Toronto heads to Cuba for a vacation
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Q&A: John Tory said we could have nice things without paying higher taxes
Then he got re-elected and promptly broke his promise. What gives?
City
Q&A: Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce
In the OSSTF standoff, the buck stops with him
Life
I was paralyzed after getting mugged on the beach in Thailand. Five years later, I’m walking in a marathon
"I yelled for help over and over but no one heard me. I started screaming in sheer panic. I began praying, God help me, help me."
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Q&A: Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s medical officer of health, on dealing with Doug Ford’s cuts
Measles is back, anti-vaxxers are on the march, but she’s still optimistic
City
Q&A: Karina Gould, Canada’s minister of democratic institutions, on defending our elections
She’s putting Russia, China, Facebook, Twitter and Google on notice
City
Q&A: Mayoral contender Jennifer Keesmaat on her plan to oust John Tory
And why, after leaving city hall in frustration, she wants to go back
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The accidental ascent of Andre De Grasse
How a skinny kid from Markham found himself on the brink of becoming the fastest man on earth
City
Q&A: Andrea Horwath on parenting, dating and dealing with Doug Ford
She’s spent her career in third place. Now she’s the leader of the Opposition, which could be a wild ride
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Browse through Canada’s top independent and private schools to find the right fit for your child
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Deep Dives
Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted
Deep Dives
The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind
Deep Dives
Michelin Men: Inside the making of LSL, Toronto’s wildly ambitious new fine-dining powerhouse
The $680-a-head uptown restaurant everyone’s talking about has three giant egos in the kitchen and one very rich benefactor calling the shots. If they don’t self-destruct, they may well produce something spectacular
Deep Dives
Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners
Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars
Deep Dives
The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood
Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the overdose crisis rages on
Deep Dives
Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD
Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it’s all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Deep Dives
How the abuses of a small-town family doctor tore his community apart
Wameed Ateyah was the answer to Schomberg’s prayers: a family physician who took walk-ins, made house calls, gave to local charities. Then his dark secret was revealed
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2024
This year’s winners include a tiny perfect snack bar, a Japanese listening lounge and a high-flying steakhouse. What they all have in common is a fanatical commitment to excellence
Deep Dives
How Carley Fortune is reinventing the romance novel
In just two years, she’s published two runaway bestsellers, sold film rights to Prince Harry and Meghan, finished a third book—which hits shelves this month—and is well into her fourth. Here, she talks anti-romance snobbery, what makes a good sex scene and how sudden fame has changed her life
Deep Dives
The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
Before he died, William Waters transferred his fortune to his wife’s caregiver. His lawyers say she coerced him. She says they were having an affair. The untold story of a scandalous estate battle
Deep Dives
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
Deep Dives
My Psychotic Break: The postpartum nightmare no one talks about
After the birth of my first child, I split with reality. I had terrifying hallucinations, received messages from the spirit world and spent so much on New Age paraphernalia that I had to sell my house. A memoir on finding my way back to reality
Deep Dives
The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception
Karima Manji wanted it all for her twin daughters, Amira and Nadya. And she found a way to help them get it: financial aid earmarked for Indigenous kids. The fact that they weren’t remotely Indigenous wasn’t going to stop her
Cost of Living
City
This actor, bartender and financial planner makes $264,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’ve spent almost $5,000 on my dog this year”
City
This Wychwood couple makes $123,800 a year. How do they spend it?
“Ontario was too expensive, so we’re having our wedding in Mexico”
City
This Distillery District couple makes $120,000 a year. How do they spend it?
“I like fancy brunch and he likes dives—but all of it is expensive”
City
This registered dietitian makes $106,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I spent more than $4,000 on my cats last year”
House of the Week
Real Estate
House of the Week: This East York property nearly tripled its asking price in two years
The 2,700-square-foot home comes with a wine rack suspended in mid-air, 20-foot vaulted ceilings and a basement with nanny-suite potential
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.3 million for a quirky detached near Yonge and Eglinton that was won in a lottery
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two laundry rooms, a three-tier backyard and four bedrooms
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.1 million for an Edwardian duplex in Little Portugal sitting on a massive commercial lot
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with Moroccan tiles, a meditation room, a backyard workshop and a tire swing
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.7 million for a whimsical custom-built home backing onto an Etobicoke ravine
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with a sauna, a hot tub, cave-like walls and nature all over
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.2 million for a new build by the Humber with a fireplace in a closet
The 3,900-square-foot property also comes with an elevator, a powder room with a swoosh sink and a playful blue laundry room