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Editor’s Letter: Your workplace is watching you
How many of us have typed something over Slack, WhatsApp or email that we wouldn’t want our bosses to see? And yet employers have the right to read everything we write on our work devices. Two high-ranking executives at RBC learned that the hard way
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Editor’s Letter: How bike lanes became a scapegoat for all of Toronto’s traffic angst
Cycling infrastructure is intended to elevate a city from a place where the car is king to one where commuters have safe, healthy alternatives. So why, in Toronto, does it face such fierce opposition?
City News
Editor’s Letter: Our annual debate over the year’s most influential Torontonians
Last year, PWHL games were the hottest ticket in town. Now, the stars of the Toronto Sceptres are at the head of a global movement in professional sports
City News
Editor’s Letter: The search for intelligent space in the city
Too many Torontonians are forced to decide between the vitality of city living and more square footage somewhere else. But there’s a third option: finding creative ways to maximize what little space is available
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Editor’s Letter: Inside the desperate search for a family doctor
The cover story for our October issue documents the province’s failing health care system in painful detail
City News
Editor’s Letter: My salary? None of your business
When it comes to the incomes of public figures, everyone wants to know, and no one wants to say
City News
Editor’s Letter: How Ontario schools lure and abandon international students
Our postsecondary institutions are raking it in by attracting students from China, India and beyond. But the situation they face on arrival is rarely as advertised
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Editor’s Letter: The good news about the bad news
There’s a lot to be anxious about: wildfires, pandemics, flash floods, AI. But the city is prepared for every worst-case scenario, sort of
City News
Editor’s Letter: And slumlord of the decade goes to...
Our investigative feature on Toronto’s worst landlord is both an exposé of one particularly malicious property owner and an indictment of the system she so handily manipulates
City News
Editor’s Letter: The perilous practice of neighbourhood rankings
There are no bad neighbourhoods in a city as vibrant as Toronto. But, depending on your metrics, some perform better than others
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Editor’s Letter: Inside the AI crisis on campus
In a world where anything can be faked, how does anyone know what’s real?
City News
Editor’s Letter: A super scientific study of a boozy city
For our April issue, we set out to survey Toronto's drinking habits
City News
Editor’s Letter: When the news is the news
The new owners of the
Toronto Star
, the country's largest newspaper, seemed ironically unwilling to sit down for an interview. As details of their fractured partnership emerged, it became apparent why
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Editor’s Letter: An ode to the new wave of creative talent coming out of this city
They're the creators behind what you're watching (and loving) right now
Real Estate News
Editor’s Letter: The powerful pull of a lakeside summer
Even in a cooling market, most of us are priced out of Muskoka, Georgian Bay and the Kawarthas, but there's hope for dispirited cottage hunters
City News
Editor’s Letter: How a GTA teen pulled off a $46-million crypto heist
Plus, insights from a cranky starchitect, the strange allure of homesteading, and more in this month's issue
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Letter From the Editor: The triumphant return of dining out
Restaurants give us a chance to escape the daily grind and breathe in the energy of the city
City News
Reckoning with the residential school system
And the importance of exposing and preserving our dark past
City News
Toronto Life’s May issue, produced entirely from the kitchen tables and living room sofas of its editorial staff
Today Toronto Life releases its May issue, the first one in the magazine's 54-year history to be produced remotely, entirely from...
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Why can’t the rest of the world be more like Belize?
Climate shame is a powerful motivator
City News
Why are cops, teachers and nurses giving up on Toronto?
Tracking a middle-class exodus
City News
Doug Ford’s chaotic austerity
Why, when there’s so much money in Toronto, are services disappearing?
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Why Raptors president Masai Ujiri is Toronto’s most influential person
He won us a championship and built us a new identity
City News
The pot shop lottery shemozzle continues
Doug Ford had a second chance to get it right. Didn’t happen
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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
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand