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Dear Urban Diplomat: how can I get my co-workers to stop bashing Rob Ford?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I am a Rob Ford supporter, and I work in an office where everyone, including my boss, bashes him. They even...
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Food & Drink
Loblaws: worth switching Kensington Market around for?
After years at 297 College St., the monks of the Zen Buddhist Temple are decamping to quieter (and presumably more...
City News
Neighbourhood Watch: How the east Annex became Toronto’s trendiest ’hood
Elbow-patched academics, keg-emptying frat boys and earthy middle-incomers have long ruled the Annex. But lately, a clutch of...
Food & Drink
Reaction Roundup: what Toronto is saying about its new, hockey-themed grocery paradise (i.e., Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens)
In the seven years since news broke that the Maple Leaf Gardens would be turning into a grocery store, it’s become something of...
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Food & Drink
Truck-off: why Calgary’s food truck program works and Toronto’s doesn’t
Somehow, inventive, high-quality food served out of a truck has become one of the hottest food trends across North America over...
City News
Metrolinx teases commuters with a downtown transit relief; but the TTC isn’t into it
The province’s transit authority is considering expediting the creation of a new downtown subway or light-rail line (or at...
City News
The Q&A: Nick Kouvalis is cashing in on his newfound cachet right, left and centre
A chat with the political strategist everyone wants in their corner In a year, you’ve gone from mastermind of Rob Ford’s...
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City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
Real Estate News
The Chase: two 30-something diehard downtowners find the perfect condo
The Buyers: Jennifer Zimmermann, a 30-year-old systems analyst, and Dustin Vaughan, a 32-year- old ad exec. The Story: Vaughan and...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $2.3 million for a four-bedroom penthouse in the Spire
ADDRESS: 33 Lombard St., Suite 4501 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Church-Yonge Corridor AGENT: Todd Sloan, Sutton Group-Associates Realty...
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Real Estate News
The Chase: A couple finds the street life of their native Caracas at Yonge and Eglinton (of all places)
The Buyers: Venezuelan expats Adriana Rosemberg, a 29-year-old scriptwriter, and her husband Jonathan, a 32-year-old ad...
Real Estate News
Suburban condos sales top Toronto for the first time ever
New condo sales in the 905 hit record levels in August, beating out Toronto for the first time. The numbers aren’t even...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Food Cabbie, a new food truck with classic American comfort food
The Food Cabbie, an unassuming yellow-and-black food truck serving American classics, popped up a couple weeks ago in a car park...
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City News
Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Urban Eatery, the Eaton Centre’s new, disconcertingly Danish food court
The food court experience is a notoriously horrible one. The ambiance is nonexistent, the options are limited to the typical...
City News
Mississauga unveils its first downtown traffic roundabout, which the Toronto Sun finds weirdly exciting
Traffic lights are old news. Roundabouts are the new cool kids on the block (literally), and cities all over North America are...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $2 million for a Mimico home with a spectacular view and private beach
ADDRESS: 8 Miles Road NEIGHBOURHOOD: Mimico AGENT: Robert Douglas Pettigrew and Clare Estlick, Re/Max Professionals...
City News
Urban guru Richard Florida joins the chorus of voices warning that the London riots could happen in Toronto
We were somewhat skeptical when the Toronto Star’ s Christopher Hume made the argument two weeks ago that Toronto could see...
City News
Toronto’s downtown universities want to keep pedestrian space open to people and closed to cars
Ryerson University students agitated for the closure of Gould Street for years, but it took the front wall at 335 Yonge Street to...
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City News
Toronto developer announces it will use non-exploding glass on its condos
Er, wait, this was an option all along? After a spate of incidents involving falling glass showering the streets beneath downtown...
City News
Glass continues to rain down on Toronto’s streets, and injures someone in the process (luckily, not a movie star—yet)
The strange thing is that it’s no longer news when a pane of glass falls from a condo tower onto downtown Toronto streets. But...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Toronto scribes—and readers—react to Toronto Life’s September issue cover story, “Exodus to the Burbs”
In September’s cover story, long-time Toronto Life contributor Philip Preville explores the idea that Toronto is a hostile place...
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Editor’s Letter, September 2011: The Real Spadina Expressway Legacy
Outside the Dupont subway station, at Spadina Road, on the northwest corner, three plaques commemorate the successful battle to...
City News
Get a sneak peek at Philip Preville’s Toronto Life September issue cover story “Exodus to the Burbs”
Brian Porter and Carrie Low thought they’d hatched the perfect plan to avoid the eight-lane gridlock they faced every week on...
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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
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative