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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 16, because the play of the year is set in a Korean corner store

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 16, because the play of the year is set in a Korean corner store

For decades, the variety store has served as a centre of Korean-Canadian life—the place where new immigrants find work, build a...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 18, because we’re stem cell pioneers

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 18, because we’re stem cell pioneers

Toronto is home to some of the top stem cell research institutes in the world, including the McEwen Centre, the Centre for...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 19, because the bubble won’t pop

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 19, because the bubble won’t pop

At the start of this year, a 30-year-old advertising project manager named Melissa Hart founded the blog FML Listings. The title...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 21, because CAMH is Queen West’s hottest address

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 21, because CAMH is Queen West’s hottest address

Over the last decade or so, West Queen West has transformed from actually grungy to artfully grungy, but even as designer pooches...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 22, because the world’s funniest meme started here

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 22, because the world’s funniest meme started here

Shit Girls Say began as a Twitter feed and YouTube video and quickly became the year’s most imitated and outrage-inspiring...

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.

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 24, because our favourite library is stacked

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 24, because our favourite library is stacked

Late last year, ultra-hip book lovers could be seen carrying replica Toronto Public Library tote bags identical to the original...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 25, because Rob Ford isn’t so bad for the arts after all

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 25, because Rob Ford isn’t so bad for the arts after all

The silver lining of our library-loathing mayor’s no-frills agenda has been an outpouring of city-wide creativity. Here, a...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 29, because we inspired a 21st-Century international suffragette movement

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 29, because we inspired a 21st-Century international suffragette movement

It all began in the winter of 2011, when a cop named Michael Sanguinetti told a group of York University students that in order...

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 30, because Christopher Plummer at 82 is sexy

Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 30, because Christopher Plummer at 82 is sexy

Christopher Plummer is an impossibly jocular old rascal. He dances jigs in his one-man shows. He guzzles stiff martinis. And even...

Conrad Black didn’t need high-powered friends to get him a residence permit

The rumour that someone in the immigration office helped Conrad Black’ s application for a temporary residence permit along has...

Party Pages: Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Jorn Weisbrodt and more at Sunday night’s hottest Luminato after-party

Party Pages: Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Jorn Weisbrodt and more at Sunday night’s hottest Luminato after-party

On Sunday night, after Rufus Wainwright sang his heart out to a massive crowd at David Pecaut Square for Luminato, the Shore Club...

Mississauga isn’t as keen on a casino as everyone thought

Mississauga isn’t as keen on a casino as everyone thought

In case Toronto takes a pass on the Ontario government’s offer to build a gambling hot spot in the city, Mississauga has been...

SPOTTED: Agent Dana Scully—or Gillian Anderson—hits the town last night

SPOTTED: Agent Dana Scully—or Gillian Anderson—hits the town last night

The baddest babe from the X-Files, Gillian Anderson, is in town and was spotted chowing down on pad Thai at local hot spot Khao...

Downtown condo + gravity = glass raining down on a limo

Downtown condo + gravity = glass raining down on a limo

The latest downtown tower to shed glass is Boutique Condo, at Simcoe Street near Richmond. Last night, a pane broke off the 25th...

Rob Ford opposes road tolls and sales taxes, but his executive isn’t so sure

Rob Ford opposes road tolls and sales taxes, but his executive isn’t so sure

Josh Matlow hasn’t been shy about wanting to use tolls or taxes to expand Toronto’s lagging transit network, and it looks like...

SPOTTED: Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello being hottttttt at the Thompson Hotel

SPOTTED: Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello being hottttttt at the Thompson Hotel

The Thompson Hotel in Toronto is becoming a hotbed of hotties. First, it was rumoured that Jake Gyllenhaal is staying there, and...

Is Woodbine Racetrack doomed without provincial funding?

Is Woodbine Racetrack doomed without provincial funding?

Get your summer afternoons at Woodbine in while you still can—breeders and horse folk are panicking over the Ontario...

The City of Vaughan decides some of its street names are annoying

Vaughan doesn’t want any multi-syllabic, tongue-twisting street names plaguing its citizens. As developers name streets...

QUOTED: Adam Vaughan explains what raccoons have to do with his proposed bullet ban

QUOTED: Adam Vaughan explains what raccoons have to do with his proposed bullet ban

—Councillor Adam Vaughan, on why a bylaw restricting the storage, sale and use of ammunition in Toronto makes perfect sense...

Check out what the TTC would look like in Mario Bros. 3

Check out what the TTC would look like in Mario Bros. 3

Have you ever needed to get from Kipling to York Mills station in 20 minutes and thought, “Damn, I wish I had one of three magic...

Rob Ford invites Dalton McGuinty to hang out—at a community housing building

Rob Ford invites Dalton McGuinty to hang out—at a community housing building

When the province decided to delay the city’s decision to sell 65 Toronto Community Housing homes, Rob Ford first took a formal...

Rob Ford sends a polite but angry letter to Dalton McGuinty

Rob Ford sends a polite but angry letter to Dalton McGuinty

The provincial Liberals annoyed Rob Ford earlier this spring by refusing to override council on the LRT-versus-subway...

Find out which city councillors are Facebook and Twitter junkies

Find out which city councillors are Facebook and Twitter junkies

In the spirit of both June and council report cards, Campaign School, a project from the Academy of the Impossible, evaluated city...

Karen Stintz and Rob Ford get passive-aggressive while celebrating the Spadina subway extension

Karen Stintz and Rob Ford get passive-aggressive while celebrating the Spadina subway extension

Yesterday, transit adversaries Rob Ford and Karen Stintz met up (awkward!) to celebrate the tunnelling of the first section of the...

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?