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Dear Urban Diplomat: One of my fellow condo-dwellers is putting on a peep show
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live on the 10th floor of a condo tower that overlooks the Gardiner. I drive out past the building on my...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: are restaurants allowed to refuse us a doggy bag?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I recently ate at Acadia, a new restaurant on Clinton Street. The meal was great, but when we...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: I wasn’t even tipsy, yet my friend insisted I was too drunk to drive. Who should apologize?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I went to a friend’s dinner party last weekend and drank two beers over four hours. When I got up to...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: What can we do about our semi-detached neighbours poor taste in exterior paint?
Dear Urban Diplomat, An eccentric couple just moved in to the other half of our semi. All was fine until they started to paint...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Do you need to give a standing ovation in Toronto even when one isn’t deserved?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I just moved to Toronto from London, England, and I’ve noticed that nearly every theatre production here...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: The local vagrant is plucking bottles from inside our gate. Should I call the cops?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I built a porch at the front of our house, and we moved our recycling bins to the back. The guy...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: I gave my boss a bottle of fancy scotch after we closed a deal. He’s an alcoholic
Dear Urban Diplomat, My boss and I recently closed a huge deal, resulting in a healthy commission for both of us. I bought him a...
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Food & Drink
QUOTED: Dark Horse owner on what you shouldn’t be looking at in her cafés
— Dark Horse owner Deanna Zunde fills The Grid in on the ground rules for spending time in a coffee shop for their Urban...
Food & Drink
The Star wades back into the (never-ending) tipping debate
Torontonians seem to have an endless appetite for reading about the when, who and how much of tipping. Anyone still confused has a...
Food & Drink
The latest in dining and dashing—a BASE jump from the 55th floor of Melbourne’s Rialto Towers
If there’s one thing restaurateurs hate more than no-shows—and let’s be clear, they really don’t like no-shows—it’s...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I ask my boyfriend to stop competing in the same academic competitions as me?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My boyfriend and I are University of Toronto students, and we apply for the same awards. He’s won out over...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: is it just me, or is the iPod destroying community connection?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’ve gotten used to young people listening to their iPods in public, but now I’m seeing people my age...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: do I have to give a job recommendation to a friend even if I don’t think he deserves one?
Dear Urban Diplomat, A good friend who used to work under me has asked for a job reference. Trouble is, I can’t think of anyone...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how can I repair my reputation after eating from the food bank box at work?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was working late recently and skipped dinner, so I thought it would be okay to take a box of Cheerios from...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: do people have the right to eat a meal on the streetcar?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I get queasy easily, and I can’t stand it when people eat food on the streetcar. I’ve seen passengers...
City News
Muslim Canadian Congress Founder Tarek Fatah on being both a cancer patient and a survivor
In my life, I’d been run over by a car and survived two jail terms as a political prisoner. If cancer was going to kill me, I was at least going to have the last laugh
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what’s the etiquette for tipping with Groupon?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I used a Groupon recently to get my hair done at an expensive Rosedale salon. It saved me 65 per cent. When...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can we reclaim our soccer pitch without looking like jerks?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I play a casual game of pickup soccer with a bunch of other late-30s dads on weekends at Bickford Park. For...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: I spotted my under-aged son spotting me at a strip club
Dear Urban Diplomat, Last weekend, my buddies and I were at a strip club when my 17-year-old son and two of his friends walked...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How important is dinner party reciprocity?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I throw top-notch dinner parties: rib-eyes, good wine, fancy cheeses. We have two...
City News
New streetcars will put you face to face with those pesky public nail clippers—and generally be bigger and more comfortable
Transit etiquette, it seems, is at an all-time low considering that news of the TTC’s new fleet of streetcars comes with advice...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can you slap your friends with invoices for a fun weekend at the cottage?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I invited a crew of friends and their kids to my cottage last weekend. They brought snacks and lunches, but I...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I entitled to an email telling me that I didn’t get the job?
Dear Urban Diplomat, As part of a recent job application, I had to go through three interviews, submit a 1,000-word proposal and...
City News
Welcome to Toronto the Rude
We swear at each other from cars, bark at each other on the TTC and yell into our cellphones. How a supposedly livable city...
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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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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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