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All Hands on Decks

After yesterday’s sudden whirl of activity, the journos were back in the second floor canteen using the free WiFi or camped out...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

If nothing else, today’s coverage demonstrates many different ways of saying the jury can’t make up its mind. “Stalemate,”...
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Cut Off at the Impasse

High drama as the defendants gathered before Amy St. Eve to hear a note from the jury. In a voice perhaps better suited to a PTA...
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A Cry For Help

The jury, now into its ninth day of deliberations, sent Amy St. Eve a note this afternoon saying they were at an impasse. We have...
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Yet another argument against congestion pricing

…can be found in this report , which will go before Budget Committee today. You can’t price the roads as an incentive to take...

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.

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Act Up, where are you?

Today, when the Board of Health meets at city hall, on the agenda is a report recommending that the city ask Queen’s Park...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Whatever else there might be to say about Conrad Black (and sometime over the next week to 10 days or so there will be rather a...
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The Suspense Mounts

After all the “excitement” this morning, something of an anticlimax as the jury beetled out at two this afternoon without a...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

This morning, word has it that Times man James Bone is offering even money that there will be a verdict today. This is based on a...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

It was a surreal scene this morning as the lawyers met before Amy St. Eve to argue the potentially moot point of what Black et...
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Dogs have no rights
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Dogs have no rights

Quick reaction to today’s news : owning a pet in the city is a privilege that comes with many responsibilities and no rights...
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The Floating Rocket Lives! Maybe!

Not along the Don or the Humber, as I foolishly suggested , but on Lake Ontario , from Bluffer’s Park and Humber Bay Park. Just...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

These are the days of tea leaves and shamans. While upward of a million Chicagoans wandered through Grant Park last night, staring...
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Our pay-per-view future

News for media junkies: Today’s Statscan Daily reports that television had a banner year for advertising revenues in 2006. Two...
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The happy-go-lucky, cycle-commuting councillor

Glenn De Baeremaeker is unfailingly one of the happiest and most ebullient members of city council. I hadn’t met him up close...
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Counting cars

After yesterday’s lively discussion about the relationship between Toronto and its suburbs, along comes this clever little story...
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Waiting Game

While we await a verdict in Conrad Black et al. v. the United States, the 12th floor of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Building...
Visionary and incendiary
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Visionary and incendiary

Those of you who read my column in the June issue of Toronto Life already know just how disorganized the city’s planning...
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Black Talk: Now Live

We are taking your questions about the trial now. Please go here . Update: the discussion has now closed. Continue reading for the...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

Rather than grinding your gears with a rehash of notes sent from the jury room to the judge , or recapping the Globe ’s tasteful...
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Black Talk: A Live Discussion

Tomorrow, Friday, June 29, at noon ET, I will be answering questions from readers about the trial. The discussion will be live for...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

There was nothing quite so spectacularly—how to put it?—comprehensive as yesterday’s coverage in the Post . But the...
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Black Watch: Today’s Top Stories

As the Meedja moves into the period of building hysteria, coverage that was merely cacophonous has now morphed into confusion akin...
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The Jury is Out: A Live Discussion

At 5 p.m. ET, I will be chatting with Alan Gold about the legal matters surrounding the trial. You can read the live conversation...
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Cost of Living

This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?
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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?
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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?
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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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?