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Get gussied up, Hamilton: Sarah Palin coming to Canada, locals told to dress well

Get gussied up, Hamilton: Sarah Palin coming to Canada, locals told to dress well

The conservative dynamo who served half a term as Governor of Alaska is coming to Canada—and this time, it’s not just to poach...

David "Big Brother" Miller broadcasts Transit City plea over TTC PA system

David “Big Brother” Miller broadcasts Transit City plea over TTC PA system

Subway riders were treated to a little Big Brother action this morning, courtesy of the mayor's office. David Miller, stepping up...

Fare treatment: TTC driver charged with assault

Fare treatment: TTC driver charged with assault

Before long, we’ll be able to make seven dwarfs jokes about the TTC. First, there was the photo of the fare collector snoozing...

Blacklisted from the States, Oprah biographer heads to Toronto for book tour

Blacklisted from the States, Oprah biographer heads to Toronto for book tour

After being denied media coverage from David Letterman, Larry King and Barbara Walters, author Kitty Kelley is promoting her...

Welcome to Toronto Life Central

Welcome to Toronto Life Central

Your full-access site for all things Toronto Life. Now more than ever, there are multiple ways to engage with Toronto while...

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.

Mayoral candidates trip over each other to gripe about new bike lanes

Mayoral candidates trip over each other to gripe about new bike lanes

Reaction to the city’s announcement of a bunch of new bike lanes yesterday—including a separated one along a chunk of...

New GTA area code to complicate established phone-based stereotypes

New GTA area code to complicate established phone-based stereotypes

Just when downtowners thought they had suburbanites pigeonholed under the convenient umbrella term “905ers” (ignoring the...

Was the Jays' home opener a metaphor for the season to come? Let's hope not

Was the Jays’ home opener a metaphor for the season to come? Let’s hope not

As every statistic-loving forecaster or rational journalist will tell you, the 2010 Blue Jays are not likely to make the...

McGuinty to Toronto: no deal on TTC money this year

McGuinty to Toronto: no deal on TTC money this year

One of David Miller' s objectives in his last year in office is to hammer out a deal with Queen’s Park for the province to take...

Tiger Woods’s Toronto doctor wanted by A-list athletes, FBI

Tiger Woods’s Toronto doctor wanted by A-list athletes, FBI

What does it say about sports in this city when one of our biggest names doesn’t even play on a professional team? Or play at...

Blame Canada for California debt crisis: Pamela Anderson owes state almost $500,000

Blame Canada for California debt crisis: Pamela Anderson owes state almost $500,000

According to her official Web site , Pamela Anderson considers herself a...

Adam and leave: Giambrone ditches politics

Adam and leave: Giambrone ditches politics

And Giambrone makes three. Yesterday, we jokingly said that with two high-profile resignations— Helena Guergis and Jeff Bangs...

MPP accuses Torontonians of not knowing who Bambi is

MPP accuses Torontonians of not knowing who Bambi is

If the whole Toronto-as-its-own-province thing sounded like a bad idea last month, its current champion (not Mel Lastman , that's...

Smitherman loses his campaign manager

George Smitherman' s campaign manager has walked away from his job. On Friday evening—that dead zone of media coverage—the...

TTC meeting so boring that the press resorts to suggesting Giambrone might re-enter mayoral race

The first community meeting between passengers and TTC workers' union was a perfect formula for drama: angry commuters, an...

Jeffrey Simpson to Toronto sports fans: Maybe spirit isn’t everything

Jeffrey Simpson staged an intervention with Toronto sports fans in this weekend's Globe . He picked them up, shook them from their...

Justin Bieber seduces Tina Fey on SNL

Our new overlord Justin Bieber appeared on Saturday Night Live over the weekend in a sketch that’s best described as the prelude...

Five things Adam Giambrone can learn from Eliot Spitzer

Five things Adam Giambrone can learn from Eliot Spitzer

Last week, the New York Times ran a profile of Eliot Spitzer —former New York governor and connoisseur of high-class...

The Star’s latest contribution to pop culture: “busty hookers”

The Star ’s star investigative reporter, Kevin Donovan , wrote the now-famous exposé that delved into former MP Rahim Jaffer' s...

Helena of Tory is no more: Guergis is out of the Conservative caucus as "serious allegations" emerge

Helena of Tory is no more: Guergis is out of the Conservative caucus as “serious allegations” emerge

Did Helena Guergis decide to jump ship amid the scandals enveloping her and her former MP hubby Rahim Jaffer ? Or was she pushed...

Casting the Rahim Jaffer made-for-TV movie

Casting the Rahim Jaffer made-for-TV movie

Remember watching that CTV flick about SARS ? Or that Toronto-filmed biopic about Celine Dion? Neither do we, so we figured this...

And now she’s resigning: Helena Guergis steps down from cabinet

Fridays are the best when it comes to the media. It's the one day of the week that officials unload stories that they'd prefer the...

New besties Drake and Justin Bieber are the next Ebony and Ivory

The '60s had Simon and Garfunkel, and the '80s had Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. Now the millennials have a duet to define the...

Holy smoke: Toronto church argues that pot is a religious right

Holy smoke: Toronto church argues that pot is a religious right

Two hippies-cum-spiritual-priests from Toronto are challenging Canada’s drug laws, claiming that members of the Assembly of the...

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