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Ottawa tightens up mortgage rules to calm the hot, hot housing market
The runaway real estate market in Canadian cities (and whispers and shouts of bubble trouble) is worrying Finance Minister Jim...
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Real Estate News
What the city is doing to prevent crappy condo balconies from shattering
The city wants to be more proactive about all the glass-falling-from-the-sky mishaps like this, this and those eleven other...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 1, because boom times are back
Toronto is the rare city experiencing a construction frenzy (185 high-rises, to New York’s 80), a hiring spree (in the last...
City News
Torontonians love Zipcar and Autoshare (and IKEA, too)
Toronto’s short-term car rental market is blowing up, to the delight of companies like Zipcar, which is predicting 20 per cent...
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City News
Blame station construction and absurd rainfall for the Union Station flood
Apparently, the flood of rainwater and sewage that shut down Union Station and complicated commutes last Friday was not the...
City News
TTC supports Metrolinx’s Eglinton plans—but wants you to know who’s responsible if things go wrong
Despite ongoing reports of a TTC versus Metrolinx power struggle, TTC brass have grudgingly come out in support of Metrolinx’s...
City News
TTC versus Metrolinx: can the Eglinton Crosstown be finished by 2020?
The ongoing power struggle between the TTC and Metrolinx is ramping up over the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Backed...
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Real Estate News
Luxury condo wars: how the Trump Tower, the Four Seasons and the rest are doing so far
Sure, their high-profile restaurants and over-the-top ribbon cuttings have netted the Ritz-Carlton, Trump Tower, Shangri-La and...
City News
Major traffic disruptions on the Gardiner this summer (and the nine summers after that)
While construction on Toronto’s highways and roads is as much a sign of summer as a smog alert or a crowded patio, the next 10...
Real Estate News
Toronto is about to be a two-boom city (condos and office towers)
Soon all those cranes hovering over downtown won’t just be for the multitude of new condos—demand for downtown office space is...
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Real Estate News
Toronto’s record-breaking condo market spurs more unchecked optimism and dire warnings
Toronto’s gravity-defying condo market continues to set records. Over 6,000 freshly built condos were sold in Toronto in the...
Real Estate News
The Beach earns a spot among Toronto’s most anti-condo neighbourhoods
The Beach isn’t immune to the city’s condo boom—five buildings are proposed or under construction in the neighbourhood—but...
City News
Reaction Roundup: what the revival of Transit City could mean for Toronto (and Rob Ford)
The whole "war on cars" talking point feels so 2009 (and 2010… and 2011), but now that Metrolinx and city council have pushed...
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Metrolinx’s proposed timeline for building LRTs is inconvenient for Rob Ford
In a hotly anticipated report that will go to the Metrolinx board tomorrow, Metrolinx staff gives a thumbs-up to city council’s...
Real Estate News
Oodles of condos create a thirst for downtown office space
The unstoppable condo boom that has marked out nearly every neighbourhood for construction has also resulted in a demographic...
Food & Drink
Two Vancouver ramen shops coming to Toronto this spring
A couple weeks back, we told you about Kingyo Izakaya, a Vancouver cult favourite that had plans to expand to Toronto later this...
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Food & Drink
The Saint is finally, really, seriously, actually going to open on Ossington
In 2009, we predicted that The Saint would bring “some King Street style to the Ossington strip.” But any excitement over that...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 2: hokey doke
The original U.S. version of Top Chef tries to maintain a steely cool tone with the chefs run ragged and constantly at each...
City News
Where to Buy Now: Corktown, because the historic neighbourhood has lofty ambitions
What used to be a don’t-walk-here-at-night zone is being reinvented by builders like Streetcar Developments and Brad Lamb into a...
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The latest in wholly unsurprising news: the Eglinton Crosstown is going to be insanely expensive
The Eglinton Crosstown light rail line—the public transit project that’s proving Rob Ford can’t just bury things he...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $780,000 for 2,100 square-feet of prime downtown partying space
ADDRESS: 160 Frederick St., unit 302 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Moss Park AGENT: Jane Chen, RE/MAX Realtron Realty Inc. PRICE: $780,000 THE...
City News
A new theatre opens in the war on the car
Surprisingly, the latest front in the war on the car looks like the site of the Eglinton LRT. The Globe and Mail reports that...
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Ontario developer risks $15 billion taking the lead in monumental Manhattan transformation
Manhattan Island was long thought to be fully built out, but apparently Canada’s largest real estate developer aims to conjure...
City News
The last place to get a nice-sized home on a quiet, leafy street for less than $150,000 in the GTA—Twin Pines trailer park
On a bright morning in August , Judi Lloyd drove through Twin Pines with the air of a visiting dignitary. The preternaturally...
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’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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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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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