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City News
Inside an exclusive fundraiser at David Daniels’ Casa Loma mansion
With Conrad Black, Suzanne Boyd, Don McKellar and more
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Style
A look at 50 years of Toronto’s most influential fashion pioneers
These ten people set the groundwork for another 50 years of fashionable upward momentum
Life
Toronto Life’s weirdest covers (so far)
Thirteen of our most memorable covers, including "Can food make you sexier?"
Real Estate News
Inside Conrad Black’s mansion, now up for sale
Lord Black's Bridle Path estate is going up for auction in March
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City News
11 prominent Canadians pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, from Conrad Black to Brian Mulroney
"It’s true what they say of Mandela. In all of our various conversations, there was never a word of acrimony, of rancour. I’d...
Culture
TIFF Party: Toronto’s powerbrokers turn out en masse for the final George Christy Luncheon
Every year since 1983, former Hollywood Reporter society columnist George Christy has hosted a chicken pot pie luncheon that’s...
City News
Conrad Black, Party Hopper: the baron’s packed social calendar and famous friends
It was an audacious move, swapping his Canadian citizenship for a British peerage. It didn’t go as planned. In London, he was...
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Culture
TIFF PARTY: The annual Hello! Canada bash drew, appropriately, a swarm of Canadian celebs
Hello! magazine hosted its fourth annual TIFF party at the Ritz Carlton last night, drawing a crowd of mostly Canadian celebs. Our...
Food & Drink
These Booths Were Made for Gawking: who sits where at La Société
The cuisine is supremely so-so, but the glitzy atmosphere and A-plus people-watching at La Société—the crown jewel of...
City News
Conrad Black says Random House caused him $1.25 million worth of suffering
Conrad Black must love lawyers as much as Barbara Amiel loves her Hungarian kuvasz dogs. In the midst of working through a few...
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City News
Barbara Amiel on Conrad Black’s flabby figure, terms of endearment and similarity to her dogs
Since getting out of jail, Conrad Black has rejected all media requests save a chat with CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge. Thank...
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We induct 13 city style icons into Toronto Life’s best-dressed hall of fame
Only a mighty few rock a signature look for a lifetime. Introducing, from our inaugural Stylebook, 13 entries into Toronto Life’...
City News
Conrad Black’s post-jail plans: chatting with Peter Mansbridge and shunning beer
Conrad Black is back in Toronto, and so far his plans sound pretty low-key for a baron. In an email to the Globe and Mail, Black...
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City News
Conrad Black returns to Toronto (to a PDA from Barbara Amiel)
The man formerly known as prisoner no. 18330-424 (i.e. Conrad Black ) is back in Toronto—greeted at his Bridle Path home with an...
City News
Conrad Black’s getting out of jail, but he may not be able to move back to Toronto
America’s haughtiest jailbird, Conrad Black , is getting out of the slammer this weekend—and thinking longingly of...
City News
Watch Barbara Amiel at home, re-enacting Must Love Dogs
We were excited to hear that Barbara Amiel had given Maclean’s a one-on-one, on-camera interview, her first in years. That...
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City News
Camera: a mix of Canada’s best filmmakers and top critics at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
January 10, The Carlu. The annual Toronto Film Critics Association Awards mixes Canada’s best filmmakers and critics—which can...
City News
Conrad Black Book Club, A Matter of Principle: Chapter 12 (wherein Conrad goes to court)
As his trial approaches, Conrad Black is wringing his hands. While his lawyer, Eddie Greenspan, is the finest legal mind in...
City News
Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 9 (wherein Black falls and bruises his knee)
Only in the distorted world of Conrad Black does moving become an ordeal on par with the Hundred Years War or the Rwandan...
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City News
Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 8 (wherein nothing happens)
While reading this useless chapter, we started to wonder whether Conrad Black was being paid by the word. Or maybe he’s being...
City News
The Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 3 (wherein Black falls and skins his elbow)
Conrad Black begins the third chapter of A Matter of Principle by devoting a page-and-a-half of ink to dumping on the old boy from...
City News
The Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 2 (wherein Black drops a lot of names)
We already knew Conrad Black was well connected, but we didn’t know just how well until we read this week’s chapter. Black is...
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City News
The Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 1
When we found out that Conrad Black was releasing a book, we smacked our heads and thought, “Of COURSE!” Really, that Black...
City News
Secrets of a society photographer: George Pimentel shares his favourite shots
Galen Weston Jr. ’s Bieber haircut, a commando mission to shoot Conrad Black, and the never-ending battle for fashion...
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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling