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Tim Hortons opens first Dubai shop, begins new era of coffee and doughnut colonialism
After fulfilling its mission to open three stores for every library in Canada, this weekend Tim Hortons went ahead and set up shop...
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City News
How a chronic insomniac found a radically simple cure for her sleepless nights
I was living in a co-op on the edge of Regent Park, next to a playground that was invaded by screeching junkies every...
City News
Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
Real Estate News
Cottage of the Week: $4 million for a two-cottage compound on Little Lake Joseph
ADDRESS: 75 Old Portage Road NEIGHBOURHOOD: Rosseau, Ontario AGENT: Jamie Blair and Tom McDonald, Chestnut Park Real Estate...
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Jack Layton, fall fashion and more: the top stories from the St. Joseph Media digital network
We bring you highlights from around the St. Joseph Media network in our new weekend feature. • Thanks Jack, We've Got It From...
Food & Drink
Sam James to celebrate his coffee bar’s second anniversary this Sunday with free lattes for all
Toronto espresso hero Sam James is celebrating his tiny Harbord Street coffee bar's second anniversary this Sunday, when he’ll...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2011: Three stops for your meat, fish and fruits and veggies
Game Fish Farmers’ market Whitehouse Meats 93 Front St. E., 416-366-4465 Leila Batten, the ebullient 50-year-old owner of...
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The List: 10 things zoologist, lion tamer and host of the new reality TV show Expedition Impossible Dave Salmoni can’t live without
My pocket knife I’ve had my single-blade, foldaway Buck knife for more than 20 years. It’s probably been around the world with...
City News
Former Blue Jays catcher Gregg Zaun is Toronto’s newest—and most popular—baseball analyst
Here, 10 things the Rogers Sportsnet broadcaster can’t live without My World Series ring I got traded to the Florida Marlins in...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 44, The Lightbox serves Milk Duds
The assets of the Lightbox, the new home of the Toronto International Film Festival, are many: the intelligent movie...
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Food & Drink
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.31, Southern Ontario’s craft brewers are making unique and tasty beer
It wasn’t so long ago that the only beer available in Toronto was flavourless and the colour of straw. Now we’re spoiled for...
Food & Drink
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 27, Board game-themed Snakes and Lattes is a success
At Snakes and Lattes, the board game–themed Annex café, the most competitive task isn’t winning at Risk, Fireball Island or...
Food & Drink
Introducing: BYOB, a Queen West shop for everything booze-related (except alcohol)
Boozehounds, start your livers. Queen West is now home to BYOB, a new shop that specializes in cocktail-related accoutrement of...
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Food & Drink
The Year in Dining: our chief critic dishes on the city’s big food trends
You get two questions over and over when you’re a restaurant critic. The first one, “Where should I eat?” isn’t so hard to...
Food & Drink
Greatest Hits: Chris Nuttall-Smith picks the 25 most delicious dishes of the last year
The 25 most delicious dishes tasted this year, ranging from lowbrow comforts (potato puffballs) to high-minded masterpieces...
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12 trends we observed at 2011’s Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show
Yesterday we reported the results of the second annual Canadian Chef Survey of menu trends. The relatively predictable list might...
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Introducing: The Primal Grind, a sugar- and dairy-free café in a crossfit gym (no, really)
Toronto’s independent coffee scene has boomed in the past year. With that rapid growth has come new levels of coffee...
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Super Shopper: Our monthly roundup of the city’s best stuff
Food & Drink
Why you should choose the medium roast (hint: it’s good for you)
Good news for over-caffeinated java junkies: a new study out of UBC has found that roasting coffee beans helps create stable...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Café Pamenar, Kensington’s latest coffee shop and community hangout
Pouria Lotfi has been dreaming of opening a coffee shop in downtown Toronto for over six years—he actually bought his La...
Shopping
Introducing: Lost and Found, the Dundas West boutique carrying Charlotte Ronson and (soon) Uniqlo
UPDATE: Lost and Found has now moved to 44 Ossington Avenue. The place: Lost and Found , a new clothing boutique and espresso...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s five best cafés
The city’s top spots for lingering over a latte and laptop 1. Rooster coffee house This out-of-the-way spot overlooking...
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Between two trends: John Lettieri on coffee and burgers in Toronto
John Lettieri is in an interesting position these days. As president and founder of both Hero Certified Burgers and Lettieri...
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Starbucks announces new supersized drink; stomachs shudder
The Internet was aflutter a couple days ago on the announcement that, starting yesterday, U.S. Starbucks customers will be able to...
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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
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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