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Nicholas Hune-Brown: How to die on Facebook

Nicholas Hune-Brown: How to die on Facebook

When you’re dead, your Facebook page becomes a permanent digital gravestone, and your family and friends (and quite possibly...

Rob Ford spoils hundreds of city workers’ holidays with plans for massive layoffs

Rob Ford spoils hundreds of city workers’ holidays with plans for massive layoffs

Mayor Rob Ford’ s casual disdain for city workers is no secret—in September he referred to them collectively as...

The Toronto Star versus Rob Ford: the paper returns fire with a call to the commish

The Toronto Star versus Rob Ford: the paper returns fire with a call to the commish

The Toronto Star is going to the city’s integrity commissioner to settle its long-standing grudge match with Mayor Rob...

VIDEO: Justin Bieber and Mariah Carey engage in some creepy Christmas flirtation (and product placement)

It’s December, which means increased spending, seasonal coffees (some Irish) and carols to tide us over until spring. To get us...

Paulina Gretzky to flaunt her Great Ones on Twitter no longer

Paulina Gretzky to flaunt her Great Ones on Twitter no longer

Paulina Gretzky, daughter of Wayne, triggered lamentations from 24,000 followers this weekend when she shut down her racy Twitter...

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.

Metrolinx versus TTC: a public-private partnership for the Eglinton Crosstown?

The Toronto Star reports that Metrolinx is considering snubbing the TTC on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, opting instead for a...

Mike Del Grande expresses wariness about movies, non-English literature

Budget Chief Mike Del Grande isn’t so sure that city libraries should be spending money on frills such as Hollywood...

Rob Ford’s finance figures continue to look rather arbitrary—still, he won’t give up his apocalyptic budget rhetoric

Rob Ford’s finance figures continue to look rather arbitrary—still, he won’t give up his apocalyptic budget rhetoric

The National Post referred to the most significant cuts in the proposed 2012 budget as “highlights,” which we find slightly...

RIM slashes PlayBook price by $300 for consumers, offers even better deals for its employees

Christmas came early for BlackBerry fans. Research in Motion is in the midst of a holiday fire sale, cutting PlayBook prices by...

Holy mother of God—Pamela Anderson is Russell Peters’s Virgin Mary

Holy mother of God—Pamela Anderson is Russell Peters’s Virgin Mary

It’s not exactly an immaculate casting choice: Pamela Anderson will be playing the Virgin Mary in A Russell Peters Christmas...

Doug Holyday has no problem with service cuts—except for services he likes

Apparently, fiscally conservative councillor Doug Holyday doesn’t quite get the concept of a double standard. He’s all for...

Reason to Love Toronto: four new five-star hotels are about to make staycations super-luxe

Reason to Love Toronto: four new five-star hotels are about to make staycations super-luxe

Toronto is a great place to visit. Just ask the people who live nearby. Residents of Halton Region, a mere 30-minute drive down...

Rob Ford’s city budget includes a 2.5 per cent tax increase—but that’s really not a big surprise

Rob Ford’s city budget includes a 2.5 per cent tax increase—but that’s really not a big surprise

Yesterday, the city began the lengthy and rather unpleasant process of pushing next year’s budget through the budget committee...

Five things we learned about celebrity interior designer Lenny Kravitz

Five things we learned about celebrity interior designer Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz is a name we haven’t heard in a long time, save for occasional radio play of “American Woman” and news of his...

Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 9 (wherein Black falls and bruises his knee)

Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 9 (wherein Black falls and bruises his knee)

Only in the distorted world of Conrad Black does moving become an ordeal on par with the Hundred Years War or the Rwandan...

Rob Ford’s press secretary, Adrienne Batra, joins (and towers over) the Sun

Rob Ford’s press secretary, Adrienne Batra, joins (and towers over) the Sun

Readers who alighted on the Toronto Sun website during their lunch break today were greeted with the unexpected yet benevolent...

The Power Plant’s new director is Quebecer Gaëtane Verna

The Power Plant’s new director is Quebecer Gaëtane Verna

After an “extensive international search,” the Power Plant has found its new director right next door in Quebec. Gaëtane...

Port Lands development may be on the fast track (but no word if that track is a monorail)

One product of Doug Ford ’s failed attempt to turn the Port Lands into a waterfront amusement park is a commitment to expediting...

MLSE is off the market, planning sports network instead

Last Friday the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan board tersely stated that it’s no longer interested in selling its 80 per cent...

QUOTED: Tim Hudak confuses the Interwebs by tweeting in gibberish

That’s the cryptic message Tim Hudak sent to his 11,600 Twitter followers yesterday. No, it wasn’t a Dalton McGuinty –fueled...

With the gravy train essentially out of steam (and gravy), the new budget marks Rob Ford’s toughest political test to date

With the gravy train essentially out of steam (and gravy), the new budget marks Rob Ford’s toughest political test to date

Today city manager Joe Pennachetti unveils the 2012 budget, which among other things entails the first projected spending decrease...

Giorgio Mammoliti says city massage parlours are also operating illicit opium dens

Forget the budget—here we have a single story that involves Giorgio Mammoliti, massage parlours and heroin. Oh my! The Toronto...

Could the Yeater-Bieber love child be the result of a phantom sexual act? No.

Could the Yeater-Bieber love child be the result of a phantom sexual act? No.

The triad non-relationship between Justin Bieber, Mariah Yeater and Robbie Powell (Yeater’s ex) has reached impressive lows this...

Four users on the GTA’s largest South Asian dating website—Shaadi.com—share the secrets of ethnically loaded matchmaking

Four users on the GTA’s largest South Asian dating website—Shaadi.com—share the secrets of ethnically loaded matchmaking

For members of traditional South Asian communities, marriage—in Hindi and Urdu, shaadi —is the single most important event in...

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?