Everything’s fine! Except for the risk of wildfires, extreme weather, pandemics, asteroids, supervolcanoes, power grid failures, nuclear war, killer robots and zombie apocalypses. What you really need to worry about and why
Over almost two decades, a garden behind a monastery on Weston Road was, according to a cluster of Catholics, the site of multiple miracles. Last August, a developer bought the property to build condos. He says he’s addressing the housing crisis. The worshippers say he’s the devil in disguise
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
Bedbugs are—no exaggeration—everywhere in the city: our libraries, offices, schools, hospitals, hotels, transit and homes. An investigation into the always expensive, often traumatic, probably futile battle to eradicate the bloodsucking parasites that are ruining our lives
كانت يارا أبو الجديان حاملاً في شهرها التاسع عندما بدأ القصف في غزة. كان زوجها أحمد في كندا، على بعد 9 آلاف كيلومتر، وما من وسيلة للوصول إليها. ثم بدأ المخاض. قصة عن الحب والإصرار في زمن الحرب
Yara Abualjedian was nine months pregnant when Israel intensified its bombing of Gaza. Her husband, Ahmad, was in Canada, 9,000 kilometres away, with no way to reach her. Then she went into labour. A story about love and perseverance in a time of war
The nine-to-five sucks. Ambition is overrated. Life is short. Why these Torontonians are prioritizing pleasure over profit
Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd always wanted to be a cop, and she loved the job. Even when her fellow officers started harassing her, she said nothing at first. That’s the code—you don’t go public, no matter what. But eventually she had to speak up, and it cost her everything
A ranking of our most popular feature stories of the year
Carolyn Krebs (alias Carolyn Goodman, alias Marian Linton) is the owner of 500 Dawes, one of the city’s most complained-about apartment buildings. She ignores work orders, falsifies documents and evicts tenants without cause. How one woman is making a killing off a system that’s too broken to stop her
Prominent Torontonians divulge the hush-hush venues, one-of-a-kind treats and city hacks they leverage to get the most out of the GTA
The rent was dirt cheap, the rules were nonexistent and the parties were legendary. Now, with demolition underway, former tenants share their favourite memories of the city’s most storied artists’ space
Our inaugural list of the up-and-comers shaping our city and the world
He spent half a century developing artificial intelligence. Now, he worries that his life’s work could spell the end of humanity. Inside his mission to warn the world
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it