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Dear Urban Diplomat: should I worry about my daycare worker’s outburst?

Dear Urban Diplomat, Our experience with the staff at my son’s daycare has been very positive. But recently, I went to pick him...

The Double Life of Ben Levin: His depraved online world, and the sting that brought him down

The Double Life of Ben Levin: His depraved online world, and the sting that brought him down

Benjamin Levin dazzled everyone around him. He was the second of four brothers, born in 1952 to a warm, loving, staunch NDP family...

How blind soccer works at the Parapan Am Games

How blind soccer works at the Parapan Am Games

Five-a-side soccer at the Parapan Am Games is very much like soccer anywhere else: it's fun, it's fast and the Brazilians always...

How Parapan Am wheelchair rugby player Zak Madell girds for battle

How Parapan Am wheelchair rugby player Zak Madell girds for battle

Wheelchair rugby, better known as murderball, is a Canadian invention: the full-contact sport for quadriplegic athletes first...

Troublemaker: Why Jennifer Keesmaat may be exactly what Toronto needs right now

Troublemaker: Why Jennifer Keesmaat may be exactly what Toronto needs right now

The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway runs for 18 kilometres. From the sky, it’s a snaking schism dividing the waterfront from...

Inside the Latest Issue

The June issue of Toronto Life features the best new restaurants of 2026. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.

Dear Urban Diplomat: what should I do after accidentally sexting a co-worker?

Dear Urban Diplomat, Due to an iPhone autofill snafu, I accidentally sent a sexually explicit text message to a co-worker with the...

Q&A: New Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown on what he stands for (and what Snoop Dogg thinks of him)

Q&A: New Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown on what he stands for (and what Snoop Dogg thinks of him)

In private text messages that were leaked to the Globe and Mail , Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown claimed that, in this...

Jennifer Pan's Revenge: The inside story of a golden child, the killers she hired, and the parents she wanted dead

Jennifer Pan’s Revenge: The inside story of a golden child, the killers she hired, and the parents she wanted dead

Read this article in Mandarin Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was...

女儿的复仇

女儿的复仇

Read this article in English Bich Ha和Huei Hann...

Memoir: I was addicted to starving myself

Memoir: I was addicted to starving myself

I grew up in an upper-middle-class Toronto neighbourhood, with a loving family and supportive friends. Despite my privileges, I...

A guide to the city slickers of Prince Edward County

A guide to the city slickers of Prince Edward County

Everyone wants a piece of Prince Edward County, and Torontonians have been colonizing by the boatload. Here, a handful of...

What's inside John Tory's surprisingly non-boring office

What’s inside John Tory’s surprisingly non-boring office

For at least the next three and a half years, John Tory’s second home will be the mayor’s office, a light-filled space on the...

Dear Urban Diplomat: should I have to pay for my neighbour's tree maintenance?

Dear Urban Diplomat: should I have to pay for my neighbour’s tree maintenance?

Dear Urban Diplomat, There’s a huge maple tree in the backyard next to mine. Its branches spread over my yard, where they get...

Toronto's biggest video stars: a who's who of the new Internet fame factory

Toronto’s biggest video stars: a who’s who of the new Internet fame factory

Eight years ago, an unsullied Justin Bieber posted his first YouTube video, kick-starting a global pandemic (Bieber Fever) and the...

"It's a necessary evil": Scarborough commuters on the real cost of the subway extension

“It’s a necessary evil”: Scarborough commuters on the real cost of the subway extension

With Rob Ford no longer mayor and the Gardiner debate temporarily settled, there's now officially nothing in Toronto politics more...

Dear Urban Diplomat: do I have to keep paying for my seat at a café?

Dear Urban Diplomat: do I have to keep paying for my seat at a café?

Dear Urban Diplomat, At my local café, earbud-sporting caffeine junkies on laptops (of which I’m one) are as much a part of the...

How Whitney McClintock, Pan Am Games water-skiier, pulls off one of the sport's toughest tricks

How Whitney McClintock, Pan Am Games water-skiier, pulls off one of the sport’s toughest tricks

Somewhat improbably, considering the fact that much of our surface water is frozen for a third of the year, southern Ontario is...

Sex, Drugs and EDM: high times and overdoses in Toronto's dance festival scene

Sex, Drugs and EDM: high times and overdoses in Toronto’s dance festival scene

The electronic dance music genre has spawned a $20-billion economy of giant festivals, thumping bass and designer drugs. The partygoers think they’re invincible. The overdoses tell another story

How the Bloor Viaduct's Luminous Veil finally got itself illuminated

How the Bloor Viaduct’s Luminous Veil finally got itself illuminated

The "Luminous Veil," as the anti-suicide barrier on the Prince Edward Viaduct is known, has never been as shimmery as its name...

Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I stop my neighbours from covering my street with posters?

Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I stop my neighbours from covering my street with posters?

Dear Urban Diplomat, I live in a neighbourhood with an active homeowners’ association that posts notices for every imaginable...

Q&A: Joe Fresh founder Joe Mimran on the worst part of joining Dragons' Den : the clothes

Q&A: Joe Fresh founder Joe Mimran on the worst part of joining Dragons’ Den: the clothes

You left your baby, Joe Fresh, in March, and you’ll become a Dragon this fall. Why the switch? CBC asked me several times over...

Memoir: it seemed crazy to buy a house with my in-laws, but I did it anyway

Memoir: it seemed crazy to buy a house with my in-laws, but I did it anyway

When our daughter, Sharon, was a year old, my husband, Neil, and I faced a major domestic challenge. My maternity leave had just...

Q&A: Andy Byford, the TTC's top executive, staunchest defender and chief apology specialist

Q&A: Andy Byford, the TTC’s top executive, staunchest defender and chief apology specialist

Most Toronto transit riders have experienced at least one moment of hopelessness about the state of the TTC—but Andy Byford...

Could Toronto organize a bid for the 2024 Olympics?

Could Toronto organize a bid for the 2024 Olympics?

THE IDEA Toronto has bid on the Olympics five times since 1960, and failed each time. But Marcel Aubut, the head of the Canadian...

Cost of Living

This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?

This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?

“I love a good bargain, so I shop at No Frills”

This globetrotting couple earns a combined $287,000 a year. How do they spend it?

This globetrotting couple earns a combined $287,000 a year. How do they spend it?

“Groceries are our biggest monthly expense after rent”

This Doctors Without Borders marketer earns $100,000 a year. How does she spend it?

This Doctors Without Borders marketer earns $100,000 a year. How does she spend it?

Manpreet Badyal moved from Delhi to Vancouver to Toronto in search of success

How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money

How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money

Business analyst and budding TikTok investment guru Chaeeun Lee hopes to visit 50 countries before she turns 30

This policy analyst and stand-up comedian makes $83,000 a year. How does she spend it?

This policy analyst and stand-up comedian makes $83,000 a year. How does she spend it?

“Investing in mental health is important. I have an unlimited membership at Othership in Yorkville”

This entrepreneur is on track to make $23,000 this year. How does she spend it?

This entrepreneur is on track to make $23,000 this year. How does she spend it?

“It was hard to accept financial aid from my parents, but it actually brought us closer together”

How an actor, influencer and amateur investor managed to earn a six-figure salary

How an actor, influencer and amateur investor managed to earn a six-figure salary

“My family taught me to invest. It’s probably the wisest advice they’ve ever given me”

Urban Diplomat

Dear Urban Diplomat: What’s the etiquette for EV charging?

Dear Urban Diplomat: What’s the etiquette for EV charging?

Dear Urban Diplomat , What’s the etiquette for EV charging? A few weeks ago, I finally found a spot in my neighbourhood to juice...

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband thinks I'm a hoarder, but I'm a collector

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband thinks I’m a hoarder, but I’m a collector

He’s started quoting Marie Kondo and insisting that I get rid of my “emotional support tchotchkes.” How can I get him to back off?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo building has zero tolerance for the slightest noise

Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo building has zero tolerance for the slightest noise

They’ve asked us not to shower after 11 p.m. because of “pipe whistling.” Is this normal?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband bought us a pass to skip the line at the ski hill. Why do I feel guilty for using it?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband bought us a pass to skip the line at the ski hill. Why do I feel guilty for using it?

I can’t help being embarrassed every time I sheepishly walk past the eye rollers in the regular queue

Dear Urban Diplomat: My brother is lying online about Dry January

Dear Urban Diplomat: My brother is lying online about Dry January

He’s preaching the virtues of sobriety on TikTok but still crushing six-packs every weekend, and the hypocrisy is getting on my nerves. Should I call him out?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My co-workers have forgotten how to behave in an office

Dear Urban Diplomat: My co-workers have forgotten how to behave in an office

I actually don’t mind the return-to-office mandate, but it seems like so much working from home has caused my fellow employees’ self-awareness to atrophy

Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends are getting into sober raves, and I just can't see the appeal

Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends are getting into sober raves, and I just can’t see the appeal

How does one cut loose in a well-lit room while the sun is shining and no one is even a little intoxicated?