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Home of the Week: $18.9 million for a two-storey penthouse condo at University and Adelaide
ADDRESS : 180 University Avenue, Penthouse 2 NEIGHBOURHOOD : Entertainment District AGENT : Kristen Michelle Duern, Robbyn...
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City News
The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
Food & Drink
The one thing you should see this week: a virtual tour of Toronto’s streets
This week’s pick: Luc Courchesne’s You Are Here Tucked away on the 68 floor of First Canadian Place sits a tiny space. And in...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Café Pamenar, Kensington’s latest coffee shop and community hangout
Pouria Lotfi has been dreaming of opening a coffee shop in downtown Toronto for over six years—he actually bought his La...
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City News
Ford transition team ominously briefed on TIFF funding, green programs after election
Whenever there’s an election, the winner obviously has a lot of learning to do, so it’s always interesting to see what the...
Culture
The Railway Children to feature new theatre and one really cool train
A Toronto play is giving the Broadway production of Spiderman a run for its money for its inventive, site-specific set design: The...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Gabardine, a neighbourhood gastropub in the middle of the financial district
For over a decade, Katherine Rodrigues and Alison Mackenna worked in many of Toronto’s busiest Bay Street...
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City News
Last night’s budget consultations reveal Rob Ford’s biggest foe: roller derby squads
Last night saw two rounds of budget consultation—that’s half of all the public meetings Toronto’s going to get this...
City News
New interactive map shows which baby names are popular in all of Toronto’s neighbourhoods
What’s in a name? Apparently, quite a bit. A new interactive map by Toronto’s master of geo-data, Patrick Cain —he’s the...
Real Estate News
King and John BIA wants a new “urban ballroom” and “cultural corridor” in downtown Toronto
The southeast corner of King and John has been targeted by the local BIA for improvement. Specifically, the neighbourhood group...
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Food & Drink
Good Stuff Cheap: 11 selections for a kick-ass and low-cost charcuterie plate
House-made prosciutto ($3.69 per 100 g) from Masellis is sweet, buttery-soft, tender and rich, with a hint of porky barnyard—and...
Shopping
Good Stuff Cheap: Toronto’s five best vintage stores (no rummaging required)
For Luxury Labels Venture a few blocks north of Yorkville to Haute Classics for immaculate second-hand pieces sourced from very...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Dynasty Chinese Cuisine, the downtown dim sum staple reborn
Last fall saw the quiet shuttering of a couple of downtown dim sum giants: Bright Pearl in Chinatown and Dynasty Chinese Cuisine...
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City News
Proposed TTC fare hike works out to pretty much the same amount as cutting the vehicle registration tax
Rob Ford ’s first budget as mayor says a lot about where the city is heading over the next four years. The list of cuts...
City News
Rob Ford introduces his first budget. Here are the highlights and lowlights
As we’ve already mentioned , Rob Ford introduced his budget at a morning press conference. There will be arguments aplenty over...
City News
Car-loving councillor Minnan-Wong wants to bring better bike lanes to Toronto—wait, what?
Back in the day, Denzil Minnan-Wong was about as anti-bike as any municipal politician could be; this guy (with a little help from...
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Will Toronto’s rushed 2011 budget have major cuts? Depends on what your definition of “major” is
City staff are busy trying to put a budget together now that the mayor has directed them to find a way to freeze property...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Ballroom, the downtown bowling alley with UFC and gourmet chicken wings
Until recently, Bathurst Bowlerama —site of kids’ parties and seniors’ leagues—has been the only option for downtowners...
City News
GTA slowly becoming election battleground: Julian Fantino makes it to cabinet, Peter Kent gets a promotion
With the news breaking last night that there was going to be a cabinet shuffle this afternoon, all eyes turned to Ottawa, where...
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Food & Drink
The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious . The menus are less predictable than...
Real Estate News
Salad King’s famously neglected former home burns down in totally not-suspicious 4 a.m. fire
When the front fell off of the Empress Hotel building—or what Ryerson students called Salad King —back in April 2010, a lot of...
Food & Drink
12 best bets for Winterlicious 2011: our chief critic goes through the menus so you don’t have to
Big-spending downtown Torontonians have taken in the past few years to whining about Winterlicious, but the two-week dining...
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City News
Two and a half cities: Hulchanksi sees a bleak, bleak future for Toronto
Three years ago the University of Toronto’s David Hulchanski produced a report titled “The Three Cities Within Toronto,”...
Style
Circa nightclub becoming Marshalls store
The former site of Circa nightclub is going to be one of the first Canadian locations of Marshalls, the U.S. counterpart to...
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For Sale: 25 North Drive
Leave the city in the city
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For Sale: 25 Strathgowan Crescent
This Grande Dame of Lawrence Park is an absolute treasure
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For Sale: 9 Audubon Court
Welcome to 9 Audubon Court, a Mid-Century Modern retreat among the treetops
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For Sale: 500 Wellington St W PH1001
Experience unparalleled luxury in this breathtaking 6,200 sq. ft. penthouse, designed to perfection including a private 2,000 sq. ft. rooftop terrace, complete with a raised glass pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, and unobstructed panoramic city views.
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For Sale: 1445 Islington Avenue
Welcome to 1445 Islington, a stunning property located in highly sought-after Edenbridge-Humber Valley
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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
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Deep Dives
The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
Deep Dives
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
Deep Dives
A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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
The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
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