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Rob Ford’s weight-loss challenge comes to a fittingly cringe-worthy end

Rob Ford’s weight-loss challenge comes to a fittingly cringe-worthy end

Rob and Doug Ford’ s public weight loss spectacle is officially over, ending five months of public mockery and depressing or...

A city panel will answer a question that has eluded art critics for a century

A city panel will answer a question that has eluded art critics for a century

Toronto’s so-called “war on graffiti” has taken a turn for the philosophical, with more talk of what constitutes art and...

Flooded Union Station meme passes for a shark tank collapse in Kuwait

Flooded Union Station meme passes for a shark tank collapse in Kuwait

Torontonians can share a collective chuckle today: a Photoshopped picture of sharks swimming around a flooded Union Station is...

Bill Blair sounds pretty skeptical about banning guns in Toronto

Bill Blair is the latest city personality to voice doubts about Adam Vaughan’ s suggestion to ban guns and bullets. On...

QUOTED: Toronto Police made an example of Perez Hilton last night

— Sergeant Tim Burrows used Perez Hilton’ s visit to the MMVAs as an opportunity to remind people that social media...

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.

Car2Go—a popular Zipcar and Autoshare competitor—is coming to Toronto

Car2Go—a popular Zipcar and Autoshare competitor—is coming to Toronto

Car2Go, a well-liked car-sharing service in Europe, the U.S. and Vancouver, wants in on Toronto’s booming short-term rental...

PARTY PAGES: Power Ball, where you will never run out of meat, alcohol or pretty things to look at

PARTY PAGES: Power Ball, where you will never run out of meat, alcohol or pretty things to look at

A party like the Power Plant gallery fundraiser Power Ball: Quarter-Life Crisis hasn’t happened in Toronto since the Dangerous...

QUOTED: Doug Ford on why he may quit city politics by July

—Councillor and would-be MPP Doug Ford, on why he may make his leap to provincial politics as soon as this summer, rather than...

Rob Ford got asked whether he owns a gun

Rob Ford got asked whether he owns a gun

With the recent talk of gun and bullet bans, one Toronto Sun reporter started wondering: is ban opponent Rob Ford packing heat?...

And the 10 most traffic-addled streets in Toronto are...

And the 10 most traffic-addled streets in Toronto are...

Sheppard Avenue commuters now have the dubious honour of spending hours on one of the most congested streets in one of the most...

These celebrities will be in town this weekend for the MMVAs

These celebrities will be in town this weekend for the MMVAs

It’s that time of year again. Children have already waited in line (overnight, in tents) for wristbands for the MMVAs, and the...

Nik Wallenda’s high-wire walk across Niagara Falls tonight is being live-streamed

Nik Wallenda’s high-wire walk across Niagara Falls tonight is being live-streamed

Tonight, would-be Niagara Falls high-wire walker Nik Wallenda will find out if all the government lobbying, fundraising and...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 1, because boom times are back

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 1, because boom times are back

Toronto is the rare city experiencing a construction frenzy (185 high-rises, to New York’s 80), a hiring spree (in the last...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 2, because we’re pumped for gold

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 2, because we’re pumped for gold

The posse of Torontonians who’ll invade this summer’s London Olympics is determined to return with more medals than...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 3, because Drake had babies

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 3, because Drake had babies

As fans of the rappers Maestro, Kardinal and K-os well know, Toronto hip hop has been thriving for at least a couple of...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 4, because principle finally trumped ideology at City Hall

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 4, because principle finally trumped ideology at City Hall

Remember way back in 2008 when Karen Stintz took public speaking lessons in order to, in her words, not sound so “shrill”? It...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 7, because kids have a playhouse

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 7, because kids have a playhouse

How do you make Toronto’s best building even better? You put in a kids’ space. The Weston Family Learning Centre at the AGO is...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 8, because we’ll traipse anywhere for conceptual art

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 8, because we’ll traipse anywhere for conceptual art

Not too long ago, the intersection of Bloor and Lansdowne was best known for a decent Value Village, two competing strip clubs and...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 9, because Patrick Chan is a winning machine

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 9, because Patrick Chan is a winning machine

In France at the end of March, Patrick Chan, the 21-year-old figure-skating phenom, successfully defended his world championship...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 10, because the city is safer than ever

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 10, because the city is safer than ever

There were 45 homicides in Toronto last year. It’s a grim group: a 28-year-old man was gunned down at a family barbecue; a...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 11, because we get along

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 11, because we get along

A couple of years ago, a proposal to build a mosque on a site not far from Ground Zero was met with months of protests and...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 13, because there’s a national park in the middle of Scarborough

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 13, because there’s a national park in the middle of Scarborough

Stories of vanishing ecosystems and endangered species are such a grimly familiar refrain, it’s a spirit-lifting relief when...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 14, because there’s beauty in this beast

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 14, because there’s beauty in this beast

In a city overrun with delicate glass towers, 222 Jarvis is an oddity. The hulking, inverted ziggurat, opened in 1971 as...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 15, because baroque rocks

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 15, because baroque rocks

This is the 30th anniversary of Jeanne Lamon’s leadership of Tafelmusik, the orchestra of obsessively period-perfect baroque...

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?