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Dear Urban Diplomat: I’m a Jew. Do I really need to participate in the office Secret Santa?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I don’t want to participate in my office Secret Santa because, ta-da, I’m Jewish. I’m not offended by...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends moved twice in a year. Do I have to buy them two house-warming presents?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I showed up to my friends’ housewarming without a gift, and they were pissy about it all night. At one...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Should my wife be allowed to slap bumper stickers on our car against my will?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Recently, my wife came home with a set of the stick-figure decals people put on car windows (we have a...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbours’ reno project is driving me crazy. How can I shut them up?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Our neighbours purchased a fixer-upper three years ago and have been working on it almost every evening and...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I’m really, really sick of Bob Marley. Can I ask my neighbours to make a new playlist?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live in Kensington Market, so I’ve seen and heard it all. For months, the establishment below my...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I allowed to decorate my house any way I want at Halloween?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Every Halloween, I do up my lawn as a graveyard, scatter body parts around the porch and hang a fake corpse...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Are guests obliged to say goodbye when they leave a party?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My partner and I love to host parties. They’re usually lively affairs of 30 people or so, and they often...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Someone posted an embarrassing video of me on YouTube. Can I ask them to remove it?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I wore my Boston Bruins jersey to a Jays game recently and some drunk guy threw a hot dog at me. I freaked...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Neighbourhood dogs love peeing on my front lawn. Is it rude to complain?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My house is on a corner lot that’s very popular with dogs. Thankfully, most owners pick up number twos, but...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it weird to hit a nude beach without going naked?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Some of my U of T law classmates invited me to Hanlan’s Point on the Island for some European-style...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour holds a yard sale every weekend. Is there anything I can do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My neighbour holds a yard sale every weekend. She prices everything way too high and won’t negotiate, like...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How should I respond to overzealous street fundraisers?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was shopping on Queen West recently and was accosted in three separate instances by those relentlessly...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do we tell our neighbour that we can hear him watching porn?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I live in a semi, and every night around midnight our neighbour, a single guy in his...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do you start a conversation without asking “What do you do?”
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a graphic designer, and my husband is a lawyer. He recently made partner at his firm, and we’ve been...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I rat out parents who abuse the tennis club child care service?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a member at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club, where they offer a child care service called Kids Klub, the...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Are stores allowed to ban customers from taking photos?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was recently at a high-end industrial design store in the Distillery District and snapped a pic of a funky...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I stop my neighbours from renting out their front yards as parking spots?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I moved near the Gay Village last year and noticed many of my neighbours renting out their front yards as...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I tell my friends that they can’t come to my cottage every weekend?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I recently bought a cottage. It’s a charming two-bedroom with a bunkie near...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I stop guys from pestering me when I’m jogging?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a 31-year-old woman, and I jog every day in and around Little Portugal. The older men in the...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Our neighbours’ barbecue fills our backyard with unpleasant smoke. Can we complain?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I have new neighbours who love to barbecue, which is fine, except that it’s almost always...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I confront parents who bring a wailing newborn to an upscale restaurant?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I went to Toca at the Ritz-Carlton for our anniversary dinner. Around 9 p.m., a newborn-toting...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I found $100 in the back of a cab. What should I do with it?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I got into a cab a few days ago outside First Canadian Place and found a $100 bill on the floor. I quickly...
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Dear Wedding Diplomat: Is it sexist to exclude a close male friend from my bachelorette party?
Dear Wedding Diplomat, My bridesmaids planned my bachelorette party but didn’t invite one of my close friends because he’s a...
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Dear Wedding Diplomat: My fiancé and his family want me to wear his great grandmother’s dress—but I hate it
Dear Wedding Diplomat, My fiancé’s mother and grandmother are pressuring me to wear his great grandmother’s dress from...
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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
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
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Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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