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How private lenders and debt-crazed homebuyers are pushing Toronto’s real estate market to the brink
When banks won't deal with them, some homebuyers look elsewhere for mortgages
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Made in Toronto: how the city’s few remaining factories manage to survive
As corporate owners seek out cheap labour overseas, the city’s manufacturing sector has nearly disappeared. The factories that...
City News
No money? No problem. How more and more Torontonians are capitalizing on the barter economy
A growing movement of Torontonians barter for dinner, a haircut, a night at a hotel, you name it. They aren’t necessarily...
Real Estate News
Five things we learned about first-time homebuyers from the
Globe and Mail
March, April and May are the housing market’s biggest months, and real estate watchers are busy prognosticating whether...
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Why does everything cost so much more in Canada?
Target’ s plans to charge higher prices in Canada than in the U.S. triggered a new round of grumbling about the...
City News
Farewell, penny: 10 oddly sweet articles about the coin’s demise
The Royal Canadian Mint will stop distributing pennies to banks and businesses tomorrow, which means that, although the humble...
City News
Jesse Brown: Who says smart phone addiction is a bad thing? The case for constant connectivity
Smart phones have invaded every aspect of our lives. We use them at the dinner table, in bed, even on the john. Some people call...
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Eight portraits of the affluent, educated professionals flocking to Toronto from around the world
As the global economy fizzles, our city is being inundated with a new cohort of foreign professionals. They’re coming for the...
City News
The Celtic Invasion: why the arrival of hundreds of Irish construction workers benefits Toronto’s building boom
In the mid-1990s, companies such as Microsoft, Intel and Apple, attracted by Ireland’s well-educated workforce, tax...
City News
What Toronto Needs Now: Richard Florida offers a manifesto for a new model of leadership
The city’s great period of growth won’t continue if we don’t enlist the best and brightest minds from Bay Street, the...
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Editor’s Letter (November 2012): Toronto’s glossy new global appeal
The U.S. presidential race has been depressing to watch. The portrait of America that has emerged from the conventions and the...
Real Estate News
What bubble? RBC says Toronto condo’s market won’t crash
The city’s condo boom may be keeping both Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney up at night, but...
City News
Editor’s Letter (July 2012): the good, the bad and the ugly sides of Toronto’s condo boom
Back in 2004, when I was in my late 20s, my husband and I bought a condo in Toronto for all the reasons young people typically buy...
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Real Estate Cheat Sheet: Toronto sales are down, prices are up and what it all means
Toronto’s housing market has been as hot as this week’s weather, but new data from the Greater Toronto Realtors Association...
Real Estate News
Ottawa tightens up mortgage rules to calm the hot, hot housing market
The runaway real estate market in Canadian cities (and whispers and shouts of bubble trouble) is worrying Finance Minister Jim...
City News
Toronto’s housing forecast according to Garth Turner, the Dr. Doom of real estate
If the Toronto real estate market has nine lives, so, too, does its most famous prophet of doom, Garth Turner. Over a 40-year...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 1, because boom times are back
Toronto is the rare city experiencing a construction frenzy (185 high-rises, to New York’s 80), a hiring spree (in the last...
City News
Home Free: the advantages of swapping your mortgage for a lease
After years of crushing mortgage payments and escalating maintenance costs, one homeowner sold her house and signed a lease on a...
Culture
Toronto vs. Chicago: movies, musicals and Oprah edition
After hearing that Chicago is crazy jealous of Toronto’s annual Luminato festival—and the international tourists it...
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Rob Ford finally reveals a plan (or five) for Toronto
Rob Ford has ended the months-long “what is the mayor’s agenda?” guessing game (FYI, Transit City bingo was way more fun) by...
City News
The Moment: at the opening of his Toronto tower, the Donald was his spectacular self
Speakers at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Trump Tower at the intersection of Bay and Adelaide tossed around the word...
City News
Editor’s Letter (June 2012): Sarah Fulford on the reasons to love Toronto
Last winter, on a week-long escape to Florida, I noticed something surprising: TD and Royal Bank signs along the highway near...
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The reason Woodbine Live is stalled: Cordish and Woodbine Entertainment can’t get along
Finally, some details on why the Woodbine Live development— Rob Ford’ s signature achievement from his days as a...
City News
The economy wins! The Toronto Blue Jays win!! Everybody wins!!!
Apparently, more bums in ballpark seats are a strong indicator of a growing economy. Canadian Business is reporting on a fun...
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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
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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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
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions