Deep Dives

Toronto residents in the path of the Ontario Line are living in a foundation-cracking, rat-infested hellscape. True tales from the epicentre

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

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

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

Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars

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

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

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

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

Since its first show (Bryan Adams, May 1995, sell-out crowd), Budweiser Stage has been synonymous with summer and stars both celestial and musical. As the venue kicks off its 30th season, we asked performers and staff for their best, wildest, most indelible memories of the amphitheatre by the lake

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

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

他们来到这里是为了获得良好的教育和更美好的未来。然后，他们发现了自己的目标。

They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs

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

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

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

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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