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How Hudson’s Bay CEO Bonnie Brooks would spend a perfect Saturday in Wychwood Park

How Hudson’s Bay CEO Bonnie Brooks would spend a perfect Saturday in Wychwood Park

“I’ve lived in this neighbourhood on and off for 40 years. I keep coming back for Wychwood Park —a heavenly patch of country...

Q&A: departing National Post columnist Shinan Govani on life with the city’s glitter girls and power players

Q&A: departing National Post columnist Shinan Govani on life with the city’s glitter girls and power players

After 12 years and 6,623 parties, Toronto’s gossip guy of record is parting ways with the National Post. Here, Shinan Govani...

Memoir: I gave up my private medical practice to treat the addicts and thieves in a women’s prison

Memoir: I gave up my private medical practice to treat the addicts and thieves in a women’s prison

When I opened my North York private practice in 1976, I harboured all sorts of idealistic notions about what it meant to be a...

Quoted: Mayor Rob Ford on whether or not he sleeps on the job

Quoted: Mayor Rob Ford on whether or not he sleeps on the job

— Rob Ford telling Toronto Sun reporter Don Peat that an Imgur picture (right) that appears to catch him sleeping on the job...

Eight Halloween costume ideas for the discerning Torontonian, from the Ikea Monkey to the Cronut Burger

Eight Halloween costume ideas for the discerning Torontonian, from the Ikea Monkey to the Cronut Burger

What you’ll need: Darwin is now going clothing free at an animal sanctuary, but you can revisit last winter’s media frenzy...

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.

Slideshow: tour the new Ripley’s Aquarium with 18 exclusive photos

Slideshow: tour the new Ripley’s Aquarium with 18 exclusive photos

Two years of construction and $130 million later, Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, the 135,000-square-foot monument to marine life...

The List: 10 things celebrity gossip guru Lainey Lui can’t live without

The List: 10 things celebrity gossip guru Lainey Lui can’t live without

1 | My e-cigarette It’s almost like a hookah pipe, with liquid nicotine that you inhale. It still gives you the throat hit. I...

POLL: Is Rob Ford being a robo-call bully?

POLL: Is Rob Ford being a robo-call bully?

Speeches, radio shows and fridge magnets are no longer enough for Rob Ford, who on Friday found a new way to broadcast his...

Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I allowed to decorate my house any way I want at Halloween?

Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I allowed to decorate my house any way I want at Halloween?

Dear Urban Diplomat, Every Halloween, I do up my lawn as a graveyard, scatter body parts around the porch and hang a fake corpse...

The Oracle of Bay Street: finance bad boy Michael Wekerle is back, and his new firm is already the talk of Toronto

The Oracle of Bay Street: finance bad boy Michael Wekerle is back, and his new firm is already the talk of Toronto

When a video game player loads NBA 2K13, say, or Madden NFL on his Xbox, he’s invited to join a social media platform where he...

Star Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland bought a million-dollar house one block away from her NDP rival

Star Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland bought a million-dollar house one block away from her NDP rival

Political rivals Chrystia Freeland and Linda McQuaig have a lot in common: both are successful journalists, both hold views on...

Trend Watch: Basketball is now more popular than hockey

Trend Watch: Basketball is now more popular than hockey

Sayonara, Don Cherry. Toronto’s sports allegiance is quickly changing One hundred and twenty-two years ago, a Canadian gym...

Quoted: The poor guy from New York whose Twitter handle is @Rogers on last night’s nationwide service outage

Quoted: The poor guy from New York whose Twitter handle is @Rogers on last night’s nationwide service outage

—Australian-born Brooklynite Glenn Rogers, holder of the @rogers Twitter handle, on t he hundreds of furious tweets he received...

Jan Wong: Exotic pets should be illegal—for their sake and ours

Jan Wong: Exotic pets should be illegal—for their sake and ours

Yasmin Nakhuda and her wandering IKEA monkey revealed an underground economy of exotic pets in desperate need of policing A few...

The five weirdest metaphors Toronto city councillors used to describe the Scarborough subway

The five weirdest metaphors Toronto city councillors used to describe the Scarborough subway

After four years, countless political squabbles and at least six competing proposals, Rob Ford’ s Scarborough subway dream is...

Looks like Union Station’s never-ending reno will cost $80 million more than expected

Looks like Union Station’s never-ending reno will cost $80 million more than expected

Turns out that overhauling Canada’s busiest transit hub is both tricky and expensive. The price tag on the six-year Union...

Rob Ford hired a drug enforcer to coach high school football

Another day, another shady Rob Ford buddy. Meet Peter Payman (a.k.a. Payman Aboodowleh, Payman Aboodowieh and/or Pejman...

Six common reactions to the proposal to rename Toronto subway lines

Six common reactions to the proposal to rename Toronto subway lines

In two weeks, the TTC board will consider replacing the names of Toronto subway lines with numbers to make things less confusing...

Q&A: Ontario’s ombudsman on police thuggery, Robin Thicke and throwing snowballs at Dalton McGuinty

Q&A: Ontario’s ombudsman on police thuggery, Robin Thicke and throwing snowballs at Dalton McGuinty

In the aftermath of the Sammy Yatim shooting, ombudsman André Marin wants to change the way cops use lethal force As the...

VIDEO: a Vimeo user takes revenge on Rogers with a doctored South Park episode

Anyone who has battled Rogers can relate to this week’s South Park episode skewering the telecom industry's record of crappy...

Quoted: a U of T professor on why a controversial child eroticism researcher should be allowed into Canada

—Professor Barbara Cossman , director of the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, responding...

Slideshow: Kevin O’Leary wants to be an artist—and he’s not half bad

Slideshow: Kevin O’Leary wants to be an artist—and he’s not half bad

Kevin O’Leary is better known for his ego and Dragon Den real-talk than his artistic soul, so we were skeptical when we heard...

Updated: Doug Ford claims police used an airplane to spy on the mayor (but he’s totally not worried about it)

Updated: Doug Ford claims police used an airplane to spy on the mayor (but he’s totally not worried about it)

The newest Ford family revelations—which happen to involve Doug Ford flipping the bird at small aircraft—lift the Rob Ford...

Dear Urban Diplomat: Are guests obliged to say goodbye when they leave a party?

Dear Urban Diplomat: Are guests obliged to say goodbye when they leave a party?

Dear Urban Diplomat, My partner and I love to host parties. They’re usually lively affairs of 30 people or so, and they often...

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?