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Reason to Love Toronto: Because suburban architecture just got a lot sexier
The hyperbolically named Absolute World towers at Burnamthorpe and Hurontario are the tallest, most confounding buildings in the...
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Great Spaces: inside the home of Victoria Jackman and Bruce Kuwabara
What happens when a preservation-minded art lover marries a professional minimalist By 2008, Victoria Jackman and Bruce...
Real Estate News
Home of the Week: $1.5 million to live in a century-old church, steps from High Park
ADDRESS: 384 Sunnyside Ave., Suite 303 NEIGHBOURHOOD: High Park-Swansea AGENT: Lynn Tribbling, Coldwell Banker Terrequity Realty...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $5.9 million for Greek Revival villa on Roycroft Park
ADDRESS: 75 Glen Edyth Drive NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma AGENT: Elise Kalles, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd. PRICE: $5.88 million THE...
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City News
Wild Thing: the story behind the Brick Works
The bucolic eco-paradise between Rosedale and the DVP almost never was. How big money and one ambitious entrepreneur remade the...
Real Estate News
With his one-time Toronto home to be demolished, Frank Gehry calls incoming condos “awful,” with “shitty-looking” lobby
The childhood home of legendary architect Frank Gehry, located near the AGO on Beverley Street, is apparently slated for...
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Ask the expert: architect Drew Mandel on brilliant homes and renos
Architect Drew Mandel made his name with his own brave little home: a 13-foot-wide light box of glass, concrete and mahogany...
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City News
The Q&A: Babak the Builder
Babak Eslahjou, the architect who wants to be mayor, heads Core, one of Toronto’s most prestigious design firms. He knows how to...
City News
New ROM director hired, Thorsell will leave in September
In September, Janet Carding, who has been the assistant director of the Australian Museum in Sydney since 2004, will take over...
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How the Eaton Centre should spend its $120 million in make-over money
The Eaton Centre will undergo a $120-million facelift beginning in July, and all we know is that the lower level will have more...
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City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto
While the Great Recession battered other cities, Toronto has emerged triumphant—Bay Street is bullish, our real estate market is...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti’s Kyle Rae jokes more interesting than his waterfront plan
In his mayoral campaign, Giorgio Mammoliti has proposed a war against spray paint , a tween curfew and a Freudian redesign of...
Food & Drink
The all-new, futuristic St. Lawrence Market unveiled at last
St. Lawrence Market’s historic north building is getting a not-so-historic-looking facelift. Yesterday, David Miller and...
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Real Estate News
City to Paul Bronfman: tear down this fence
Being robbed is never a happy experience, and people understandably react to a violation by taking measures to improve their...
Real Estate News
Toronto’s waterfront fiasco: Christopher Hume is hopping mad all over again
Christopher Hume, whose love-hate relationship with Toronto plays out regularly (and amusingly) in the Star ’s urban issues and...
City News
Here be monsters: five reasons the alien invasion won’t affect Toronto too much
Stephen Hawking was all doom and gloom this week when he spoke to the Times of London about extra-terrestrial life, suggesting the...
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The Star reminds Toronto that One Bloor Street East still exists
Walking by the giant fenced-off crater at Yonge and Bloor, it’s easy to forget that, once upon a market bubble, a huge...
City News
The Ryerson revolution: how the once dumpy polytechnic is redrawing downtown
Sheldon Levy, Ryerson’s fiercely ambitious president, persuaded students, politicians and Bay Street to bankroll his big...
Real Estate News
Authors of new book invite residents to make out with Toronto architecture
According to the authors of A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto , there are enough beautiful nooks and crannies...
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The List: Will Alsop’s favourite things
Ten things the architect Will Alsop —famous for his outré OCAD addition, and now a visiting prof at Ryerson—can’t live...
Food & Drink
What’s going to happen to all the marble once it’s removed from First Canadian Place? Is there any chance I could buy some of it?
It’s true, Toronto’s tallest office tower will soon be rid of 6,000-odd tons of Carrara marble, to be replaced by glass...
Food & Drink
Why are there iron crucifixes attached to the building next to Fran’s Diner on College Street?
Why are there iron crucifixes attached to the building next to Fran’s Diner on College Street?—Tessa Wong, Kensington The...
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There are two vacant bank buildings on Yonge across from the Eaton Centre
There are two vacant bank buildings on Yonge across from the Eaton Centre. They’ve languished in disuse for years. Will they...
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Who was “Bigley” of the Richard Bigley building at Queen and Mutual?
Who was “Bigley” of the Richard Bigley building at Queen and Mutual? And is it true that this is the oldest ghost sign in...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living