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Who’s going to replace Kathleen Wynne as leader of the Ontario Liberals?
An insider's look at the likely contenders
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50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
City News
Liberal Watch: The six contenders for the Ontario Liberal party leadership so far
Although leading the struggling Ontario Liberal party may be the worst job in the province (just ask Dalton McGuinty ), another...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Premier Dalton McGuinty steps down and adjourns the legislature
We’ve never really thought of Dalton McGuinty as a big-surprises kind of guy, but Premier Dad shocked the province last night by...
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Is Woodbine Racetrack doomed without provincial funding?
Get your summer afternoons at Woodbine in while you still can—breeders and horse folk are panicking over the Ontario...
City News
Tony Keller: why the obvious fix for the country’s collective pension problem is being ignored
Last fall, the Royal Bank of Canada—with $27 billion in annual revenue, $752 billion in assets and 74,000 employees, the biggest...
City News
Miffed Ontario finance minister tells Toronto plenty of cities would love a casino
Sounding like a spurned suitor, Ontario finance minister Dwight Duncan says if downtown councillors like Adam Vaughan and Mike...
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Food & Drink
Booze Economics 111: restaurateurs don’t have it any easier than the rest of us
Seems no one likes overpaying for booze. Following last week’s auditor general report, which brought the LCBO’s unusual...
Food & Drink
Booze Economics 101: Why the LCBO happily charges more and earns less than it might
Better grab a bottle of Wild Turkey and sit down before trying to understand this one. In an annual report released on...
City News
PMO killed the YouTube star: fishin’ buddies Stephen Harper and Rob Ford (briefly) go viral
Prime Minister Stephen Harper , Mayor Rob Ford and a 39-centimetre fish became instant viral sensations last week when a video was...
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City News
Dalton McGuinty tries a new election tactic: run against Ottawa, remind everyone of the federal Liberal shellacking
We’re not quite sure yet if this is destined for the Election Strategy Hall of Fame (headquarters to be decided): Dalton...
City News
Dwight Duncan blasts the media for being intellectually dishonest, right wing and Rupert Murdoch–like
“The intellectual dishonesty, particularly of the right wing in this country and the right-wing media, is that they don't tell...
City News
Reaction Roundup: before the writs drop, what’s the country thinking about an election?
Canada is all but certainly on the way to an election— the opposition parties have rejected the Conservative budget, and the...
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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...
City News
TMX-LSE merger needs a facelift already
Only weeks old, the proposed merger of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange has been badly chapped by the...
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...
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Mayor Rob Ford discovers his own personal spending problem, asks the province for $150 million
During the election campaign—and up to the present—the brothers Rob and Doug Ford have made it clear that Toronto has a...
City News
TMX-LSE merger gets cold shoulders from Ontario, Quebec and Ottawa
The heat of excitement that greeted the merger of the Toronto and London stock exchanges has met with a stiff, cold winter...
City News
Dwight Duncan: the HST is saving Ontario’s economy—no, really!
The Harmonized Sales Tax may be one of the Liberal government’s biggest weaknesses in the coming election, so they’ve opted to...
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If Ottawa’s plans to regulate Bay Street blow up, does Toronto win again?
One of Stephen Harper ’s low-profile priorities is a plan to bring all of Canada’s provincial securities regulators under one...
City News
Ontario to regulate derivatives market, may relocate to la-la land
Some of the prime culprits blamed for the crash of the global economy are derivatives traders, those shadowy business folk who...
City News
Liberals unveil latest plan to get re-elected: $5 off hydro bills
Ontario’s governing Liberals have had a rough year— eco-fees , the HST , sex ed curricula —but that’s so much better than...
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Barely understood “Supercorp” plan dies of terminal complexity
For almost a year now, the Liberals at Queen’s Park have been mulling the idea of semi-privatizing the profit-making crown...
City News
Adding a $4-billion insult to injury: Dalton McGuinty kicks the TTC while it’s down
Dalton McGuinty and Dwight “The Blight” Duncan dealt a huge blow to GTA public transit in their budget yesterday. Provincial...
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Summer Camp Guide
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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
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
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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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
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment