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City News
A Toronto doctor made $427,500 selling fake Covid vaccine-exemption letters
Her medical licence has been revoked
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City News
Toronto Public Health has confirmed two cases of a new mpox variant
These are the first cases of the new strain to be identified within Ontario
Food & Drink
“I can picture my stepdad toasting me with a loud ‘Skål!'": How one Toronto publicist started a side hustle selling Swedish candy
These are no Maynard's Swedish berries
Food & Drink
This Toronto pastry chef opened her own chocolate shop in a 120-year-old Simcoe County farmhouse
"When the pandemic hit, that was the final straw"
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Food & Drink
“We came really close to selling the place”: Two Toronto restaurateurs on the struggle to open their dream Grey County restaurant
The story behind Heart's, the roadside tavern that almost wasn't
Food & Drink
“I think we need to embrace the awkwardness”: How a Toronto brewery is helping people relearn the art of small talk
It's like platonic Tinder for tech-averse beer lovers
Food & Drink
“I’m looking out for our customers”: Why this restaurant owner isn’t ready to do away with vaccine passports just yet
"I respect the freedom of people who don’t want to come here, just like they should respect my freedom to make this choice”
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Food & Drink
“I love the entrepreneur life, and it’s nice feeling like I’m in charge”: Chef Brandon Olsen on his new in-home restaurant experience
Life after La Banane
Food & Drink
“We are already seeing an uptick in business”: How a Toronto café owner feels after two years of restrictions
Boxcar Social co-owner Alex Castellani on remembering what "normal" feels like after endless pivoting
Food & Drink
Valentine’s Day: These Toronto restaurants are offering multi-course takeout meals, bagel brunches and charcuterie bouquets
Say it with... meat and cheese
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Food & Drink
“I was crazy enough to think I could do this:" This chef returned from Bali to open a bistro, and then Omicron hit
David Adjey tells us what it's like to step back behind the stove right now
City News
“Early on in this wave, we had 1,000 staff members off work every day”: UHN’s head of critical care on how ICUs are coping with the hospital crisis
"Everybody’s exhausted. We’ve had people break down in tears in the middle of their shifts"
City News
“We’re already selling out of chicken”: This burnt-out nurse started a sandwich shop with his fiancée during Covid
"No one’s life is on the line, and we get the satisfaction of sharing our creations with the world"
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City News
“One person said they had booked appointments for 20 friends from my tweets”: How this woman became a vaccine hunter extraordinaire
"I wanted to do what I could to ease the burden on the health care system"
Food & Drink
An updated guide to Toronto’s best new takeout options this winter
Including pho, birria tacos, Hong Kong–style toast and pizza, of course
Food & Drink
“I’m preparing for a future where we will have dine-in service again”: Why one optimistic café owner is tackling a mid-Omicron reno
Lazy Daisy's Dawn Chapman, on plowing through despite the latest lockdown
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“I started having work-related stress dreams”: What it’s like to be a pharmacist during the Covid surge
"Because it's harder to see a physician, there are now serious gaps in health care, and a lot of patients are coming to us instead of their doctors"
City News
“We’re seeing triple the number of Covid patients as we did in previous waves”: A Toronto General emergency doctor on what it’s like in the ER right now
"We're seeing younger and healthier patients who feel truly awful with Covid"
City News
“This rink builds relationships”: Five volunteers on the impact natural ice rinks have on communities
They're much more than just places for shinny
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Food & Drink
“If I am awake, I am working”: A bakery owner on the unrelenting stress of running a small business and parenting in a never-ending pandemic
Ba Noi owner, An Tran, tells us about his uphill battle
City News
“Staff are calling in sick every day”: How this ER nurse is coping with the Omicron surge
"We're running, we're short-staffed, there are children screaming and crying. It's chaotic"
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Heavenly Perogy, a Ukrainian restaurant and food shop running out of a church basement
It's the schnitz
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Food & Drink
Our top tales of personal reinvention from a turbulent year in the restaurant industry
Stories from servers, chefs and restaurateurs who reinvented themselves during the pandemic
Food & Drink
Toronto restaurants offering takeout fried chicken dinners, surf-and-turf feasts and tapas extravaganzas on New Year’s Eve
Ring in 2022 (for better or worse) at home with one of these smorgasbords
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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