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City News
Toronto Life’s May issue, produced entirely from the kitchen tables and living room sofas of its editorial staff
Today Toronto Life releases its May issue, the first one in the magazine's 54-year history to be produced remotely, entirely from...
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City News
“Intubation can cause a patient to cough right into your face”: A respiratory therapist describes life on the front lines
An intubation is basically sticking a breathing tube down a patient’s throat into the lungs so that they can be connected to a ventilator. That's a risky undertaking.
Real Estate News
I sold my house before Covid-19. Moving during a pandemic? Total nightmare
Cathy had planned to sell her Georgetown home and vacation in Aruba. When Covid-19 hit, she suddenly had to scramble for a place to live
Shopping
Five Toronto board game stores doing delivery—plus their pandemic recommendations
In case you're sick of Scrabble marathons
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Food & Drink
“We will always find a way to lift each other up”: Operation Ramzieh volunteers on what it’s been like to help some of Toronto’s most vulnerable citizens
The organization has delivered more than 5,000 crisis kits to those in need
Real Estate News
How a barista is riding out the pandemic in 150 square feet
Social distancing in such a tiny apartment would drive the average person bonkers. Luckily, Jelena can break up the days with shifts at a café
Food & Drink
“We’re a quiet army of disinfecters, spraying anything a customer might have touched”: What its like to be a grocery store worker right now
“It wouldn’t be worth it, getting sick from a minimum-wage job like this”
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Life
When the pandemic hit, we abandoned our van life in Morocco to catch an emergency flight
“We booked the tickets for $1,272 plus tax each”
Food & Drink
"‘We hit $142,000 in donations and have delivered more than 1,500 meals”: How Feed the Frontlines TO is helping to keep restaurants open and health care workers fed
Since March 24, they've delivered more than 1,500 meals
Life
“We talked on our phones through the glass”: This Toronto man came up with a creative solution to visit his wife in the hospital
“She looked so regal, like Princess Grace. When I saw her, I cried”
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Life
“I set up a green screen to make it look like I was in the synagogue”: How this Toronto rabbi hosted a Seder over Zoom
“Just two minutes after the Seder began we maxed out our Zoom meeting with 100 participants”
City News
“People are sleeping in the streets or ravines because shelters are unsafe”: This doctor is helping restructure homeless shelters during the Covid crisis
“There are roughly 8,000 people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, and there are easily 8,000 hotel beds in the city. It's such an easy intervention”
City News
The Pandemic Heroes
So many Torontonians are stepping up. Here’s our by-no-means-exhaustive look at the amazing doctors, nurses, scientists, chefs, distillers, dancers, grocers and politicians who are making a difference in all our lives
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Life
“We just feel like we’re drowning”: How parents with newborns are coping with social isolation
“There is lots of screen time happening, more than I ever thought I would allow”
City News
“When we protect our communities, we protect our families”: How a hazmat crew decontaminates warehouses and offices after Covid exposure
“We recently did a cleanup of a 150,000-square-foot factory in Mississauga. It took us two days”
Life
“My four-year-old has an uncanny ability to pop in during my most important meetings”: How Torontonians are coping with working from home
Some are using their neglected home offices, others have turned their couches into makeshift workspaces
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Real Estate News
“It felt like walking a tightrope”: How a realtor and a schoolteacher sold their house during Covid-19
Ashot and Lisa thought their biggest challenge would be selling during March break. Then Covid-19 hit
Food & Drink
Quarantine Cuisine: How Richmond Station chef Josh Morin makes his buttery, pull-apart dinner rolls
Follow along at home
Real Estate News
“We saw a major shift”: How did Covid-19 impact the real estate market? We asked TREB’s senior analyst
Jason Mercer says the market will recover quickly from Covid-19. It's just a matter of when that recovery will start
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Food & Drink
“I don’t think food is meant to be hoarded or kept exclusive”: A Q&A with chef Nick Chen-Yin about his open-source cookbook featuring recipes from Toronto’s top chefs
Learn how to make Patti Robinson's sourdough, Ted Corrado's gnocchi, Werewolf Pizza's pepperoni pie and more
Life
“Stop being selfish”: Should Torontonians head to cottage country during the pandemic? We asked the mayor of Muskoka Lakes
Locals would obviously prefer to self-isolate at their lakeside retreats. But Phil Harding says that's a bad idea
City News
“My gender-affirmation surgery was cancelled due to Covid”: A student describes what it’s like to live in medical limbo
“I wanted this to be the first summer where I could wear a T-shirt and not feel ashamed of my body. That’s not going to happen anymore”
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Real Estate News
“The sellers included a Covid-19 clause”: How an accountant and a non-profit worker bought a house during the pandemic
“We were actually the last clients our agent took for an in-person showing”
Food & Drink
Five wholesale food distributors that are now open to the public
Buy the same meat and produce served at some of Toronto's top restaurants
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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
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
Just Listed
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This classic Hamptons-style home by Chatsworth Fine Homes offers an exciting opportunity to customize a new dream home and build instant value - without the long wait of new construction
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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