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U.K. PM Cameron sucks up to Canada and Harper in Globe opinion pages
One of the newest national leaders to be visiting Toronto as part of the G20 is David Cameron, recently elected to head up the...
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City News
Margaret Atwood on the future of books
Margaret Atwood has spoken on the future of books, and her predictions aren’t as grim as you might think. She is the creator of...
City News
Licence to Print Money
Payday loan companies like Money Mart can now charge higher interest rates than ever before. Do they provide a valuable service to...
Real Estate News
House prices have become the steroids of the Canadian economy
Two financial reports that came out this week confirm what everyone pretty much already knew: houses in Canada are...
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Real Estate News
Cross-border house shopping: six reasons to be cautious of buying up U.S. real estate
It’s official: we’ve weathered the economic crisis better than the Americans. Does that mean we can stop gloating and start...
City News
Hip to be square: The Economist exposes the world’s envy of Bay Street’s boring banking
As the United States struggles through banking reform, Canada’s quick recovery from last year’s recession hasn’t exactly...
City News
The inn crowd: Toronto’s five new luxury hotels
Over the next couple of years, this city will get five new luxury hotels. It starts with the Thompson, which opens its...
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City News
Rita Silvan, Elle Canada’s editor-in-chief, steps down
Rumours swirled on Twitter yesterday about Rita Silvan, editor-in-chief of Elle Canada, stepping down from her position, but no...
Food & Drink
Restaurant owners taking tips from staff—and not in a good way
The restaurant industry in Ontario struggled more during the recession than most other industries. The one-two-three punch of the...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2010
This time last year, the future looked awfully grim. We braced for restaurant closures and recessionary menus, but 2009 was...
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Real Estate News
Cottage sales perk up just in time for some feel-good real estate stories
According to the Toronto Star, the Ontario cottage market is heating up along with the weather. This is good news, especially for...
Food & Drink
Wage increase press release apparently written by Mr. Burns
The province’s minimum wage goes up 75 cents today, to $10.25 an hour, meaning low-end mall and restaurant jobs just got a...
City News
Sign of the apocalypse #4529: CEOs think taxes should be raised
According to a Report on Business survey, a majority of Canadian executives are in favour of raising taxes. “Almost three out of...
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Real Estate News
American newspapers to Toronto’s housing market: tsk, tsk, tsk
Price bubbles are like angry sitcom spouses: by the time one thinks to ask if something is wrong, it’s already too late. By that...
City News
Harper’s YouTube snoozefest reaches out to young Canadians, lulls them to sleep
In his live Web video last night, Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to reach out to Canada’s youth but apparently didn’t...
City News
Richard Florida, an American in Canada, predicts talent will leave the U.S. for other countries
Richard Florida is soothsaying once more. The U of T professor told BusinessWeek that American ingenuity—which is often foreign...
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Food & Drink
Famous frites not on menu at Jamie Kennedy’s Gilead
Jamie Kennedy had a rough year in 2009: he sold Hank’s and the Wine Bar, his Gardiner Museum restaurant took a more casual...
Food & Drink
Toronto is now out-partying Montreal
After years of being known for its rather conservative party scene, is Toronto finally getting its act together? Resto-lounge...
Style
Radiant Dark opens Toronto design week with Bacon Savers and felt discs
Under the soaring ceilings of Commerce Court West last night, Radiant Dark kicked off Toronto's first International Design...
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Style
Holt Renfrew replaces president with Canadian Tire exec
What do high-end fashion and auto parts have in common? Mark Derbyshire. The man who was once a marketing whiz for Canadian Tire...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: The owner of Globe Bistro brings Kevin McKenna’s fresh and local dining to Rosedale with Earth
Word on the street is that the space at 1055 Yonge is cursed. It’s had a long history of failed restaurants— Tabla , Plakutta...
Food & Drink
How the mighty have fallen: 24 more restaurant closures
Since our last report on restaurant closures in August, the wake of the worst economic storm in decades has forced scores of...
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Food & Drink
Jewish delis on the decline, top winter wines, the $100 cup of coffee
• The New York Times follows local writer and Toronto Life contributor David Sax on his tour of struggling Jewish delis as he...
Culture
Getting a TIFF drink: a complete list of establishments open until 4 a.m. during the film festival
Stalking celebs at TIFF takes a lot out of us—and, we imagine, avoiding us takes a lot out of celebs. The best way to soothe...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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
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