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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...

Inside the Latest Issue

The July issue of Toronto Life features the monster cottages of Muskoka versus the resistance. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.

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...

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...

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...

Cost of Living

These North York points enthusiasts earn $370,000 a year. How do they spend it?

These North York points enthusiasts earn $370,000 a year. How do they spend it?

“We try to maximize our rewards by using various credit cards plus PC Optimum”

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”

Urban Diplomat

Dear Urban Diplomat: My family takes Mother’s Day more seriously than Father’s Day

Dear Urban Diplomat: My family takes Mother’s Day more seriously than Father’s Day

She gets flowers, gifts and breakfast in bed; I get a lousy grill brush. Am I wrong to feel slighted?

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