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Covid-19
Real Estate News
A new baby, a pandemic, a personalized letter, a pre-emptive bid—then their pre-approved mortgage got pulled
Dylan and Sheila found their starter home with the help of a personalized letter. Things got a bit more complicated when the pandemic compromised their pre-approved mortgage
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Life
“My dress arrived at the end of February, and then, well, Covid”: How Toronto grads are celebrating prom this year
Eight Grade 12 students describe the ins and outs of socially distanced proms, look forward to the fall and flaunt their fashions
Food & Drink
“We’re selling 1,500 burgers a week”: A Q&A with Alo chef Patrick Kriss, who turned Toronto’s fanciest restaurant into a takeout joint
"Obviously Alo isn’t a restaurant that we imagined with takeout in mind, but we’re in survival mode"
Life
“I had people offering to buy four extra tickets to get the flight off the ground”: This woman organized a Noah’s Ark flight to bring pets home from the Cayman Islands to Toronto
"Over the course of a month, I answered more than 5,000 emails from Canadians who needed to leave Cayman with their pets"
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Food & Drink
“It’s like starting from scratch again”: How six Toronto restaurateurs are planning to reopen for Stage 2
Toronto restaurants can start serving patrons on their patios today
Life
Five new ways to host intimate, socially distanced weddings in Toronto at any budget
From a custom delivery service to inside a shipping container
Life
Inside Lmnts Outdoor Studio, where Torontonians can practise hot yoga in geodesic pods
A new way to work out, at a distance
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City News
Is Toronto ready for stage two? The stats say yes
Three months after an emergency was declared, new cases are dropping, contact tracing is ramping up and the hospital system looks stable
Food & Drink
How one Toronto woman is cooking up a quarantine-meal marathon without repeating a single recipe
“It's given me a new way to share food with loved ones, until we can be at the same table again”
Food & Drink
Toronto’s top takeout spots
Our guide to the most deliriously delicious dishes now available for pickup and delivery
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Food & Drink
Backyard BBQ: How Barque’s David Neinstein makes his crispy, crunchy dry-rubbed chicken wings
Follow along at home
Life
Real Weddings: Inside a same-sex Hindu-Anglican celebration at the Royal York
They got married in the ballroom in traditional Indian wedding attire
City News
“I never felt like the end was near”: A 95-year-old grandmother on what it’s like to beat Covid
"Once things reopen, the first thing I’m going to do is go to the salon and get my hair done"
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Life
“For a minute-long sequence, I cut together 480 clips”: This 15-year-old director’s short film about quarantine is going viral
"I had 13 clips of myself in 13 outfits repeating the same motions 13 times. I had to do some math to make sure it all looked fluid"
City News
“Newborns and politicians-in-crisis keep similar hours”: Small business minister Prabmeet Sarkaria on becoming a new dad while trying to save the economy
"My baby has already attended her first caucus meeting. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t dreamed of the day when she's prime minister."
City News
“We have an extra staff member just to disinfect the toys and blankets”: What it’s like to run a Toronto child-care centre during Covid
"We’re constantly washing our hands throughout the day. There are child-sized sinks in every classroom. Thankfully, the kids like it"
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Food & Drink
Toronto bars and restaurants selling barbecue, charcuterie, booze and produce boxes at takeout windows and street-side markets
Also: larb, sake, Thai smoothies, wine and two-minute dance parties
City News
“Getting Covid reminded me how lucky I am at a time when I needed reminding”: How the pandemic is changing lives
Portraits of Torontonians grappling with change, fear and uncertainty
City News
“The world is now seeing the racism that Black people experience all the time”: The Black Legal Action Centre’s Ruth Goba on the legal struggles affecting Black Torontonians
"I see it every day in my work—the inability to see the humanity in Black people. It’s not just police brutality, but inequity in education, employment, housing and health."
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City News
“We had to socially distance the cars”: How Church on the Queensway set up its wildly popular drive-in services
"At times we’d say, ‘You can't yell out Hallelujah, but you can honk your horn,’ and everybody honked"
Food & Drink
Quarantine Cuisine: How Le Sélect Bistro chef Laura Maxwell makes her cheesy, bacon-y tarte flambée
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Culture
Q&A: Actor Colm Feore on the Stratford Festival’s Covid-induced shutdown
He was supposed to star in
Richard III.
Now, like every other actor in Canada, he’s at home wondering when he’ll ever work again
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Food & Drink
“It’s all based on digital cubby technology”: Restaurateur Mohamad Fakih on Box’d, Canada’s first fully automated restaurant
It’s like a vending machine for made-to-order food
Food & Drink
Toronto restaurants and food shops doing Father’s Day barbecue, brunch and booze boxes
Also: a virtual omakase
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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
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
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
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