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Toronto high school’s late start-time pilot a success, will be ignored or fought elsewhere
Teenage schoolchildren wake up for class too early. It sounds crazy, but it’s true, and one Toronto high school decided to take...
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City News
Remember that high-speed train from Windsor to Montreal? Here’s where the federal leaders stand on it
Finally, transit infrastructure has made it into the federal election news cycle. NDP leader Jack Layton was in Quebec...
City News
Ford’s Transit Plan is finally out, and McGuinty wins the “Getting Ford to Compromise” prize
Looks like Mayor Rob Ford has picked up on the way a city is supposed to work: behind schedule, all the time. All it took was a...
City News
Ontario’s boring budget is fine, except for people who live in cities, and Peter Milczyn
Perhaps the first thing to say about yesterday’s Ontario budget is that it perfectly embodies the government of Dalton McGuinty...
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City News
Ontario schools to poor people: suck it
One thing that the provincial Liberals are proud of as they run for a third term is their record in education. Full-day...
City News
Former Queen’s Park insider has a billion-dollar 407 secret that he’ll share for only millions of dollars
Here’s a nutty story we don’t quite know what to make of: former provincial insider Jodie Parmar (mainly known as the dude...
City News
Could a Tea Party–esque movement be good for Toronto?
With federal and provincial elections looming, there’s a good chance that Torontonians will have conservative leaders all the...
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City News
After Japan’s nuclear disaster, Ontario asks important question: what does it mean for us?
The news from Japan today (the most reliable source is from the IAEA ) is pretty alarming, causing many to ask what this all means...
City News
How does Ford Nation stack up to other nations—Leafs, Colbert and Bieber?
City News
Awkwardness ensues: Councillor Berardinetti chooses Rob Ford over her Liberal hubby
Politics make for strange bedfellows, as they say. Things get even stranger when family’s involved. For example, the Ontario and...
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City News
407 extension approved with a blank cheque, in latest example of Liberal seat-protection
As part of its recent spending restraint, the Liberal government of Ontario, led by Dalton McGuinty , truncated its plans to...
City News
Charlie Sheen jokes in the legislature at Queen’s Park? Tim Hudak’s not afraid to go there
Tim Hudak , elected MPP in the legislature, former minister to the Crown and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of...
City News
If Ford Nation can’t get cash out of Premier McGuinty, could they squeeze it out of Premier Hudak?
We mentioned last week that Mayor Rob Ford is threatening to campaign against the Liberal government if Dalton McGuinty doesn’t...
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Sarah Thomson and Liberals continue mating dance: she’ll run in whatever seat the party can find for her
The Toronto Star , having already reported that Sarah Thomson was going to run for the Ontario Liberals in Parkdale-High Park , is...
City News
Rob Ford promises “hardball” tactics if premier doesn’t pony up $150 million
In an interview this morning with Jerry Agar on Newstalk 1010, Mayor Rob Ford finished off a long interview about the trouble at...
City News
The list of schools getting full-day kindergarten is out, and 154 are in Toronto
The Ontario Ministry of Education just released the list of schools that are getting full-day kindergarten for the 2012–2013...
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City News
G20 aftermath: despite “shocking” abuses, there likely won’t be a full inquiry without at least two elections
Yesterday saw yet another release of a report [PDF] on police actions during last year’s G20 weekend. The Canadian Civil...
City News
The Ontario election just got real, chemical warfare style
By this time last year, Toronto's election was busy wondering which titan of the left would replace Adam Giambrone , setting the...
City News
Most unsurprising news of the day: Ford wants private cash to help build subways
Ever since Rob Ford won the election and declared subways for all, the big question has been where the city would find the money...
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Kneel before Scarborough, Ontario: province’s biggest renewable energy resource will go untapped thanks to Bluffs voters
There’s nothing quite like watching a government run against itself: after years of touting itself as the greenest government in...
City News
Unity dinner raises about $1 million for mayoral cadidates Ford, Thomson and Rossi
Last night was the big night for all but one of the former mayoral candidates from last year’s election. Rob Ford, George...
City News
Should Queen’s Park run the TTC instead of city hall? Apparently, it’s up for discussion
Reporters who get obsessed with obscure matters are our favourites because it’s impossible to tell where that kind of tenacious...
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George Smitherman to join John Tory on Newstalk 1010 radio show
Breaking news this afternoon that George Smitherman , the former mayoral candidate and Deputy Premier, has moved on from...
Real Estate News
Vista-marring condos to go up behind Queen’s Park
The pink palace that houses the Ontario Legislature is about to lose a bit of its charm. Yesterday, Dalton McGuinty said the...
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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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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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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