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Barack Obama
City News
Barack Obama, Shawn Mendes and all the other famous faces at Game 2 of the NBA Finals
Yes, that Barack Obama
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Culture
Ten things you need to know about Daniel Caesar, the Toronto R&B singer who got a shout-out from Barack Obama
His dad is a gospel singer, he was kicked out of high school and he once was homeless
City News
Some takeaways from Barack Obama’s $10,000-a-table visit to Toronto
The ex-POTUS was at the convention centre, and he had some stuff to say
Culture
Lunch with Barack Obama, a chat with Ai Weiwei and eight other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of September 25
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Culture
A Toronto photographer describes what it was like to shoot Donald Trump (and seven other big-name celebs)
Including Barack Obama, Leonard Cohen, Snoop Dogg and more
City News
Q&A: David MacNaughton, Justin Trudeau’s man in Washington D.C.
A talk with Canada’s new ambassador to the U.S.
Style
Q&A: Lucian Matis, the guy who designed Sophie Trudeau’s White House wardrobe
Our Six in the Six interview with the latest person to earn Canada's most coveted fashion endorsement
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City News
Who had the best zingers: Trudeau or Obama?
All the week's best diplomatic dad humour
Culture
Drake Diary: In which Drake shoots a Super Bowl commercial
What Drake did this week
Food & Drink
What beers best represent Canada? Here’s what the PM chose
In the midst of all the Sochi hockey madness, our PM challenged American pres Barack Obama to a friendly gentlemen’s wager: a...
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Culture
Rob Ford is in a new Korn music video
Attention! Anyone who wore a lot of black t-shirts and baggy pants to school between 1996 and 1999: Korn misses you, and would...
City News
Justin Bieber gets Rob Ford’s sympathy after both face assault-related accusations
How do we know that Justin Bieber ’s latest legal scrape is serious? Even Rob Ford feels sorry for him. "He's a young guy," the...
City News
A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is...
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City News
What Toronto Needs Now: Richard Florida offers a manifesto for a new model of leadership
The city’s great period of growth won’t continue if we don’t enlist the best and brightest minds from Bay Street, the...
City News
Editor’s Letter (November 2012): Toronto’s glossy new global appeal
The U.S. presidential race has been depressing to watch. The portrait of America that has emerged from the conventions and the...
City News
Jesse Brown: Why local tech wizards are taking their big brains and bright ideas elsewhere
When a University of Waterloo grad used crowdfunding to raise $10 million for his smart watch company, the tech industry took...
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City News
Camera: Karl Rove and friends duke it out for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies
Allstream Centre, May 29. Some 2,100 guests of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies gathered for what...
City News
Why was President Obama at the wedding of a Toronto MPP’s son?
There’s just something about the slow-jamming, fly-swatting president of the United States—all Barack Obama had to do was show...
City News
Toronto vs. Chicago: mayors, ballparks and nicknames edition
Emanuel served as an advisor to both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, has a Hollywood uber-agent for a brother and won a scholarship...
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City News
Return of the Dads: one Scarborough father’s simple solution to his community’s most taboo problem
The most taboo question in Toronto’s Caribbean and African communities is why half of black fathers refuse to help raise their...
Food & Drink
Horsemeat poised to make a comeback in the U.S.
Top Chef Canada made headlines (and alienated horse lovers everywhere) earlier this year when it featured horsemeat during a...
City News
How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
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City News
Watch a comparison between strikingly similar ads: one for Stephen Harper, one for a U.S. Republican candidate
The Liberal Party of Canada is sending around a video implying that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has borrowed American...
Food & Drink
American chain Five Guys wades into Toronto’s burger wars
Subway may have just surpassed McDonald’s as the world’s largest food chain, but that doesn’t mean the burger craze is...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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