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Why Port Dover’s revived waterfront is a valuable opportunity for developers
Explore a one-of-a-kind redevelopment site in this cherished summertime destination
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Toronto’s nastiest NIMBY fights
A look at some of the city’s most controversial developments, and why their detractors are so mad
City News
Six in the Six: Half a dozen burning questions for Judy Matthews, who’s spending $25 million to remake the Gardiner
The woman who's trying to turn the Gardiner Expressway into an urban oasis tells us why it's worth the money
Life
What Black Creek would look like if it became a watery High Line for the west end
A dream makeover for Toronto's saddest body of water
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Here’s what developers want to build at the corner of College and Beverley
What it is: A 33-storey, 356-unit condo tower that would replace the existing office building on the southeast corner of College...
Real Estate News
Here’s what Ace Hotel’s Toronto expansion could look like
What it is: A proposed Toronto location for Ace Hotel, a chain that prides itself on art-friendly boutique hospitality. (Imagine...
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Here’s what developers want to do to the abandoned Loblaws warehouse at Bathurst and Lake Shore
What it is: West Block, a new development on a mostly disused 3.5-acre chunk of land just south of the Gardiner Expressway and...
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Troublemaker: Why Jennifer Keesmaat may be exactly what Toronto needs right now
The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway runs for 18 kilometres. From the sky, it’s a snaking schism dividing the waterfront from...
Real Estate News
A look at how developers want to transform the intersection of King and Dufferin
What it is: A complete reinvention of the intersection of King Street West and Dufferin Street. The proposal is for two condo...
Real Estate News
Here’s what developers want to build on a patch of Toronto Community Housing land in the Annex
What it is: A 28-storey, 315-unit condo tower with townhouses around its base, shown to the right in the rendering above. All of...
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City News
Why the Gardiner East decision, whatever it is, won’t be “evidence based”
Pity the 5,200 souls who drive the eastern stretch of the Gardiner during morning rush hour. They are getting a good whipping in...
City News
How a salvage crew took Captain John’s on one last voyage
Wayne Elliott wanted to give Captain John’s a dignified death. In his 40-year career, the senior salvage master with Marine...
Real Estate News
Here’s what OCAD U wants to do to its offices at Dundas and McCaul
What it is: A major renovation of OCAD U's Rosalie Sharp Pavilion, on the southeast corner of Dundas and McCaul streets. The...
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I’d pay tolls to drive on the Gardiner—but only if everyone else does, too
I’ve already argued in favour of the hybrid option for the Gardiner Expressway, which would keep the eastern section of the...
Real Estate News
Here’s what Streetcar Developments wants to do to Jilly’s strip club
What it is: A total revamp of the New Broadview Hotel, a 124-year-old Romanesque building at Queen and Broadview best known as the...
Real Estate News
Here’s what a developer wants to build at Yonge and Gerrard
What it is: A pair of condo towers, linked by an elevated bridge. They'd be 73 and 62 storeys in height, and they'd sit atop a...
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How the University of Toronto wants to make Robarts Library a little less imposing
What it is: Robarts Common, a glassy, zinc-plated, five-storey addition to the west side of the University of Toronto's Robarts...
Real Estate News
What developers want to turn a century-old building at Duncan and Adelaide into
What it is: A 57-storey tower with an existing century-old industrial building at 19 Duncan Street incorporated into the west side...
City News
How a construction crew demolished Regent Park’s last original apartment tower
Regent Park is in the process of being transformed from a social housing project into a mixed-income neighbourhood where...
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Q&A: Sam Mizrahi, the developer who snagged Toronto’s most coveted piece of real estate
There’s not a developer in Canada who wouldn’t pay dearly for the rights to the southwest corner of Yonge and Bloor, and last...
City News
Toronto’s no longer number one in North America in high-rise construction
—The number of high-rise buildings under construction in Toronto as of September, according to Emporis data cited in the city's...
Real Estate News
The new owner of Jilly’s wants to turn the building into a hotel and restaurant
Good news for anyone who guessed that the buyer of the building at Queen and Broadview that used to house Jilly's strip club would...
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Battleground Caledon
The rich and powerful want to keep their pretty rural getaway for themselves. The suburban developer Benny Marotta had other...
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Here’s what Queen’s Park wants Ontario Place to look like, post-redevelopment
At a press conference this morning with tourism minister Michael Coteau , the province released a more detailed (but still not...
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Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon