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Culture
At 80, John Irving still has plenty to say: about Trump, about abortion, about tattoos, about everything
The author's latest—and longest—book reflects a lifetime of thinking on love, family and sexual politics
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Culture
A look behind the scenes of Kent Monkman’s latest show
The artist's new exhibition traces Indigenous knowledge back to the beginning of time
Real Estate News
This developer sold pre-construction townhouses for $400,000. Three years later, they told their buyers to pay another $100K or lose their homes
The inside story of a real estate nightmare
Food & Drink
The restaurant industry is broken
Staff are overworked and underpaid, costs are soaring, kitchen culture is toxic, and burnout is rampant. We talked to 27 industry insiders about how to fix everything
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City News
Inside the weird world of cryotherapy, biocharging and fecal transplants
The members of Longevity House are united by two things: a willingness to hand over $100,000 and a burning desire to live forever
Memoir
I took a three-month vow of silence and walked nearly 1,000 kilometres
After 16 years as a radio host, talking and talking had made me miserable. How shutting up saved my life
City News
The New Hollywood North: Up close and personal with the city’s new superstars
The actors, directors, showrunners, producers and other Toronto talent making waves right now
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City News
“I was so petrified by the scale of the job that I couldn’t sleep”: True tales from the city’s high-rise construction workers
Every day, they rise before dawn, ascend into the sky and transform mountains of concrete and steel into schools, hospitals, homes and offices
Memoir
How I escaped from Manus prison: a memoir
Ten years ago, I fled the only home I’d ever known to escape a violent regime and wound up in a detention centre for 1,284 days. Here's how I found my way to Toronto
Real Estate News
Where to get a dream cottage for less than you think
We swept the province in search of bargains and found recently purchased gems in overlooked places
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Real Estate News
Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest
Interview with a reluctant starchitect
Real Estate News
This family built their off-grid dream house for less than $1,000
Life was a fairy tale until they became locked in a legal battle with their township. Now, they could lose it all
City News
The true story of the $46-million heist that shocked the crypto world
The FBI's main suspect? A reclusive
Fortnite
-playing hacker kid from the GTA
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City News
Tales of love and resilience from Little Ukraine
Since the war started, Toronto’s Ukrainian enclave—a landing spot for new Canadians for more than 100 years—has been an epicentre of altruism
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best new restaurants 2022
The most exciting places to dine right now
City News
This man would like your attention
Steven Del Duca has spent decades plotting to become premier. He’s finally got his shot, but is anyone listening?
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Memoir
I was forced into an arranged marriage at 17
All I ever wanted was to be a normal Toronto teenager. That ended when my parents brought me to Pakistan and married me off to my cousin
City News
Toronto’s first family of cheese
The Pristine family own the iconic Cheese Boutique, and they have big plans for the near future
City News
Twenty-five reasons to love Toronto now
In which we celebrate the things that make us deliriously happy to live here in 2022
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Life
Inside a high-stakes flight from a crumbling country
When Kandahar fell to the Taliban last summer, Sangeen Mateen's family was in danger, terrified they'd be jailed or killed. Here's how they got out
City News
The twisted mind of a serial romance scammer
He was charming, successful and looking for love. What could go wrong?
City News
What should the post-pandemic workplace look like?
Shorter work weeks, VR meetups, wellness stipends, office-wide quiet time and other productivity-enhancing, morale-boosting perks
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Culture
How director Domee Shi turned Toronto into a pastel Pixar wonderland
She packed her debut feature,
Turning Red
, with retro streetcars, Timbits, bustling Chinatown streets and other salutes to her childhood
Memoir
How I learned the horrifying truth about my biological father
Norman Barwin, a respected fertility doctor, helped my mother get pregnant with donated sperm. Decades later, we discovered that he was secretly inseminating patients with sperm he had no right to use, including his own
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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
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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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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