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More than 17,000 tickets were issued to drivers parked in bike lanes last year
It’s a major increase compared with 2024 and yet still not enough
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City News
The city has a plan to swerve Doug Ford’s bike lane ban
Just don’t call it a “loophole”
City News
Doug Ford has hit another roadblock in his battle against bike lanes
Is the premier just spinning his wheels?
City News
Pants on Fire: Fact-checking the most scorching claims from the Ontario leaders’ debate
Did Galen Weston Jr. really get a $200 cheque from Doug Ford? Would building a tunnel under the 401 bankrupt the province? Is Bonnie Crombie Queen of the Carbon Tax?
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“Toronto can be one of the world’s great cities”: New chief planner Jason Thorne on his grand designs
After a decade in Hamilton, Thorne has been selected as our planner in chief. With traffic in gridlock, transit ever-delayed and housing far from affordable, he’s got his work cut out for him
City News
Editor’s Letter: How bike lanes became a scapegoat for all of Toronto’s traffic angst
Cycling infrastructure is intended to elevate a city from a place where the car is king to one where commuters have safe, healthy alternatives. So why, in Toronto, does it face such fierce opposition?
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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City News
“Mark Saunders doesn’t actually care about bike lanes”: The Biking Lawyer on rising violence against cyclists
Dedicated two-wheeler David Shellnutt on why bike lanes are an election issue, what’s actually causing gridlock and whether cyclists are vying for total societal destruction
City News
A bike advocate and a worried business owner face off over the Bloor Street bike lanes
The temporary Bloor bike lanes are on their way to becoming permanent, but not everyone is pleased
City News
“The bike lanes are going to change our lives”: What cyclists and non-cyclists think of Bloor Street’s new bike-friendly flow
Are Bloor's new bike lanes an improvement, or are they a nuisance?
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I have to slow down when pedestrians wander into the bike lane?
"When I swerved around him, I accidentally nicked him with the end of my handlebar"
City News
Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
City News
Everybody hates Adelaide Street’s new bike lane
The official opening of Adelaide Street's new separated bike lane should have been a moment worth celebrating for Toronto's...
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City News
Cyclists, prepare to dodge some scooters: the city wants to start allowing e-bikes in bike lanes
In a move that seems guaranteed to invite backlash from cyclists, a newly released city staff report recommends that the city make...
City News
Q&A: Toronto’s chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat on public transit,
The Voice
and taking a pay cut
You left a rather prosperous job as a partner at a private firm six months ago to become Toronto’s chief planner, and you took a...
City News
Read emails from Rob Ford’s office about several past civic dramas
The Globe and Mail recently published an inside look at Rob Ford’s communication approach based on memos obtained through...
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Is Rob Ford waging a war on bikes?
It’s always fun when news agencies outside of Toronto pay attention to the city’s political scene, but this BBC clip about...
City News
Editor’s Letter (May 2012): the city is in the midst of a cultural renaissance—except at city hall
The spectacle at city hall has become a common obsession, even among people who never before cared much about municipal...
City News
The battle over the Jarvis Street bike lanes begins again
Now that it’s clear—abundantly so—that Rob Ford can be beat, the Toronto Cyclists Union has decided to revive last...
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Stephen Marche: an unflinching assessment of Jack Layton’s dubious legacy
The next NDP leader will be obligated to adopt Jack Layton’s Toronto-born brand of socialism—childlike, sentimental, and...
City News
The Anti-Ford: Kristyn Wong-Tam believes Toronto is in better shape than you’re being told
In her first year on city council, Kristyn Wong-Tam hogged the spotlight with proposals to ban shark fin soup, save bike lanes and...
City News
Turns out installing, and then promptly removing, the Jarvis bike lane is wasteful and expensive
Last week the Toronto Cyclists Union revealed the cost of removing the Jarvis bike lane to be $272,000, significantly more than...
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Style
Apparently, Markham and other Toronto suburbs are stealing downtown’s “mojo”
The Grid has some upsetting news for all the latte-sipping, bicycle-riding, downtown pinkos who are pining for more “urbanist”...
City News
Wong vs. Wong: Denzil Minnan-Wong calls Kristyn Wong-Tam’s Bank of Toronto stupid, insane and illegal
Earlier this week, Kristyn Wong-Tam suggested that the city establish its own bank. Critics responded with choice quotes...
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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
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
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
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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