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So, what happened during the 2014 mayoral election's first televised debate?

So, what happened during the 2014 mayoral election’s first televised debate?

Last night's CityNews mayoral debate was the first opportunity for 2014’s mayoral candidates to interact with one another on...

Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I keep well-meaning neighbours from touching my newborn baby?

Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I keep well-meaning neighbours from touching my newborn baby?

Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I live in a condo and just welcomed our first baby, a girl. Maybe she’s just irresistibly...

Now that Ralph Wilson has died, are the Buffalo Bills headed to Toronto?

Now that Ralph Wilson has died, are the Buffalo Bills headed to Toronto?

An old man died yesterday, and already Toronto sports fans are wondering who's going to be getting his stuff. The man was...

VIDEO: this is what it looks like when a commuter train jumps the tracks

Torontonians love to complain about the TTC , but there are far worse things than crowded platforms and late streetcars. The video...

BlackBerry's new comeback plan? Stickers

BlackBerry’s new comeback plan? Stickers

Struggling Waterloo-based smartphone maker has spent the past two years churning through resurrection plan after resurrection plan...

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.

Rob Ford isn't invited to this year's Garrison Ball

Rob Ford isn’t invited to this year’s Garrison Ball

The 2013 Garrison Ball was, in a sense, the start of Rob Ford ’s real troubles, because it was the source of the first detailed...

CBC does God's work, tracking the hipsterfication of Spadina Avenue

CBC does God’s work, tracking the hipsterfication of Spadina Avenue

Trigger warning for hipster content . Have you walked up and down Spadina Avenue lately? If so, you’re probably a...

Porter's jets are still grounded, for the time being

Porter’s jets are still grounded, for the time being

Porter Airlines ’ bid to expand the island airport into a hub for jet-based travel passed its latest political test on...

VIDEO: Ashley Madison teams up with Chris Brown, at last

Today in Ashley Madison : the Toronto-based infidelity-enabling dating service has teamed up with recording artist and notorious...

A Markham family was basically burgled, legally, by police

A Markham family was basically burgled, legally, by police

It's a story that seems ripped from a Canadian Real Estate Association commercial , but, according to the Star , it's completely...

Surprising nobody, prison officials deny plotting a jailhouse beatdown with Rob Ford

Surprising nobody, prison officials deny plotting a jailhouse beatdown with Rob Ford

Rob Ford ’s mayoralty has given the world plenty of unforgettable headlines, and this one ranks with the best of them: "Prison...

Overeducated millennials think they're too smart to play the lottery

Overeducated millennials think they’re too smart to play the lottery

Ugh. Millennials! Can they do anything correctly? Is there any institution they don't feel all disaffected toward? They don’t...

QUOTED: David Soknacki, on funding for new subways in Toronto

QUOTED: David Soknacki, on funding for new subways in Toronto

—Earlier this morning, former city councillor David Soknacki became the second mayoral candidate to articulate something...

With Friends Like Harper: How Nigel Wright went from golden boy to fall guy

With Friends Like Harper: How Nigel Wright went from golden boy to fall guy

The corporate insider Nigel Wright engineered Stephen Harper’s rise to prime minister and became his closest confidant. As chief of staff, he acted as a conduit between Bay Street and the PMO—until Harper thought he could make the Senate scandal go away by cutting Wright loose

Ashley Madison's legal dispute with a Toronto woman gets even more complicated

Ashley Madison’s legal dispute with a Toronto woman gets even more complicated

What could possibly go wrong at the offices of a website that exists entirely to enable extramarital affairs? Well, this, at...

Karen Stintz wants to sell off part of Toronto Hydro to help pay for the Downtown Relief Line

Karen Stintz wants to sell off part of Toronto Hydro to help pay for the Downtown Relief Line

No Toronto mayoral campaign is complete without at least one candidate promising to sell off Toronto Hydro so the proceeds can be...

QUOTED: Rob Ford vs. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Tim Leiweke

QUOTED: Rob Ford vs. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Tim Leiweke

— Rob Ford , explaining why , at last week's executive committee meeting, he was the lone vote against contributing $10 million...

The Toronto Raptors mascot is back from his achilles injury

Some good Toronto sports news, for once: the Toronto Raptors mascot, who was thought to be out for the season because of an...

Speakers Corner is coming back, sort of

No, CityTV won't be restoring the famous booth to Queen and John, but Marketing Magazine reports that the broadcaster will be...

Where have all of Toronto’s editors-in-chief gone?

Toronto newspapers have lost two editors-in-chief in the past two days: first John Stackhouse at the Globe , and then, on...

Kensington blaze destroyed suspected illegal rooming house

Kensington blaze destroyed suspected illegal rooming house

According to the Star , Thursday’s three-alarm fire in Kensington Market ravaged a suspected illegal rooming house located above...

QUOTED: Rob Ford's lawyer, yesterday; Rob Ford, three weeks ago

QUOTED: Rob Ford’s lawyer, yesterday; Rob Ford, three weeks ago

-An excerpt from Rob Ford ’s statement of defence , filed yesterday in the lawsuit brought against him by Scott MacIntyre , his...

Five things we learned at John Tory's campaign launch

Five things we learned at John Tory’s campaign launch

John Tory held his official campaign launch on Wednesday evening, signalling the start of formal hostilities between him and the...

Olivia Chow promises $15 million worth of increased bus service

Olivia Chow promises $15 million worth of increased bus service

The slow reveal of Olivia Chow ’s campaign platform continued this morning with a press conference at Wilson Avenue and Jane...

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?