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House of the Week: $2.3 million for a semi-detached live-work space in the heart of Cabbagetown
ADDRESS : 183 Carlton Street NEIGHBOURHOOD : Cabbagetown – South St. Jamestown AGENT : Gary Taitt , Re/Max Hallmark Realty...
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Food & Drink
New Reviews: The County General, Modus Ristorante, F’Amelia and Hrvati Bar
One of these things is not like the others: sandwiches, pasta, pizza and pljeskavica at the city’s hottest new restaurants The...
The Weekender: Liza Minnelli, Día de los Muertos and six other events on our to-do list
1. LIZA MINNELLI La Liza, one of the world’s few EGOT winners (that’s Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony), takes the stage this...
Food & Drink
Introducing: F’Amelia, Cabbagetown’s cozy new Italian restaurant (with a kitchen of ex-Splendido chefs)
During the first week of operations for F’Amelia, a new Cabbagetown Italian restaurant owned by locals John Dawson (formerly of...
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City News
Jan Wong: how the rise of horticultural training at Toronto schools is bad for students
While we’re busy teaching our kids to tend school gardens, they’re failing provincial tests in reading, writing and math. The...
Food & Drink
Soup’s on: a gallery of Toronto’s 13 most comforting (and beautiful) bowls
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I deliver a snow shovelling etiquette lesson to my delinquent neighbours ?
Dear Urban Diplomat, After a snowfall, I shovel the sidewalk in front of my house fairly early in the morning. I usually do my...
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City News
Awesome Foundation’s first grant winner, Stephanie Avery, to play connect the dots with Toronto
Who’s the awesomest of them all? According to the Toronto branch of the Awesome Foundation , it's Stephanie Avery , who was...
Real Estate News
The Chase: searching for a classic Cabbagetown house for under $1 million
They wanted to stay in Cabbagetown. Their budget was just under $1 million. But the place had to be big enough for Cardinal...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Stout Irish Pub, the Cabbagetown tavern with a serious beer list
The traditional gold lettering set against a black wall might bring to mind Foxes, Fiddles and Firkins, but this is no...
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Food & Drink
The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious . The menus are less predictable than...
Style
The Way We Were: a century-spanning tour of Toronto’s most striking homes
ARDWOLD Sir John Craig and Lady Flora Eaton lived in a 50-room estate on Spadina Road near Davenport, designed in 1911 by...
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...
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Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week: Daniel et Daniel
Many Torontonians have sampled this caterer's delights at parties, but boxed meals from its small lunch counter satisfy, too The...
Food & Drink
Just opened: Samovar
It’s oddly appropriate that a Russian-themed bar has opened in Cabbagetown. But instead of borscht, Samovar served crudités...
Style
Home made: Reinventing a Cabbagetown row house
In 2000, Todd Caldwell, a landscape and floral designer, and Shaun Moore, then a furniture design student at Sheridan, started...
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Food & Drink
Soft-serve bacteria, prohibition at Cabbagetown resto, free booze elsewhere
• The Toronto Star found that five out of 14 soft-serve ice creams bought from trucks and stores across the city had high levels...
Food & Drink
Where to eat during Pride 2009
The Gay Village is buzzing as it gets ready for Pride ’s climax this weekend. As any yearly attendee knows, Church Street’s...
Food & Drink
East meets east at Samovar: Another Russia-themed bar from the owner of Pravda and Rasputin
The city’s ambassador of Russian chic, Rumen Dimitroff (Rasputin, Pravda ), brings another vodka-inspired nightspot to the east...
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Food & Drink
The city’s best lunch deals
While brown-bagging a lunch every day is good recessionary sense, sometimes we sleep in and just can't pull a healthy meal...
Food & Drink
What is that colour-changing tubular thing on top of the condos at Yonge and Carlton?
What is that colour-changing tubular thing on top of the condos at Yonge and Carlton?—Ian Topp, Cabbagetown You may not want to...
Food & Drink
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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Food & Drink
There’s a stone archway on the east side of Yonge, north of Gerrard
There’s a stone archway on the east side of Yonge, north of Gerrard. Where did it come from?—Jeff Smith, Cabbagetown That arch...
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What’s the story on that tiny cemetery on the east side of Pape, south of Gerrard?
Dear Urban Decoder: What’s the story on that tiny cemetery on the east side of Pape, south of Gerrard?— Elizabeth...
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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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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Guelph is having a moment
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For Sale: 112 Mildenhall Rd
A rare opportunity to own a custom-built masterpiece in the heart of Lawrence Park beautifully designed by Gray Smith and Arca Design for the most discerning buyer