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Toronto Life’s most-read feature stories of 2016

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Over the past year, Toronto Life’s reporters have written devastating personal essays, gripping true-crime features and piercing profiles. Here, for your post-Christmas reading enjoyment, are the ten feature-length Toronto Life stories that were most popular with readers in 2016. Click on the photos or headlines to read them.

The 10 most-read feature stories of 2016:

 

Best Restaurants Toronto 2016
1) Best New Restaurants 2016

 

Rohinie Bisesar
2) Behind the murder that shocked Bay Street

 

Spend Generation
3) Young, rich and totally not buying a house

 

John Hofsess
(Image: Troy Moth)
4) I helped eight people end their lives. By the time you read this, I’ll have ended mine

 

Hell and Back
The author at home with her husband, her nine-month old daughter, and her dog
5) My decade-long coke addiction, and how I got sober

 

Matty Matheson
Matheson at Barberian’s Steak House with his son, Macarthur. Photograph by Daniel Ehrenworth
6) The life (and near-death) of bad-boy chef Matty Matheson

 

Lauren McKeon
7) I was raped three times. I knew all of my attackers. And I never told the police

 

Toronto Life's most-read feature stories of 2016
Above: Todd Howley dumped Paul Maasland’s body at the Morrow Drive boat launch in Bracebridge
8) How an entrepreneur killed his blue-blood investor and dumped the body in Muskoka

 

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Segun Akinsanya
9) My life in street gangs

 

Eleanor McCain and Jeff Melanson
10) Eleanor McCain and Jeff Melanson’s $5-million breakup is Toronto’s messiest
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