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Toronto Life
’s 10 most popular long-form features of 2017
Catch up with a year's worth of long reads
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Fountain Heads: old-fashioned milkshakes and floats are back, this time with grown-up ingredients
They're all shook up
City News
The Nanny Diaries: Toronto’s Filipino caregivers talk about low wages, long days and immigration delays
SINCE 1992, some 75,000 Filipinos have become permanent residents of Canada through the federal government’s caregiver...
City News
The Double Life of Ben Levin: His depraved online world, and the sting that brought him down
Benjamin Levin dazzled everyone around him. He was the second of four brothers, born in 1952 to a warm, loving, staunch NDP family...
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City News
Troublemaker: Why Jennifer Keesmaat may be exactly what Toronto needs right now
The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway runs for 18 kilometres. From the sky, it’s a snaking schism dividing the waterfront from...
Life
The Bay Street Tinder Diaries: Dating in the age of the Internet hookup
Valerie met “The Suit” on Tinder. She called him that because he was the quintessential 30-something Bay Street...
City News
The Charming Mr. Elder
On any given morning, you might find Michael Elder at one of his favourite hangouts, Caffe Doria or Starbucks in Rosedale. Look...
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City News
The Kink Club: inside the secret world of BDSM
Lord Morpheous, arguably Toronto’s reigning king of kink, lives in a downtown penthouse with a panoramic view of the...
City News
McMansion Wars: Inside the nasty neighbour-versus-neighbour feuds of Forest Hill
In the spring of 2009 , 212 Vesta Drive—a four-bedroom 1930s Tudor on a 40-foot-wide lot—went up for sale. It was a pretty...
City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014
It’s been a big year in the corridors of power, with an infusion of ambitious new leaders in the city’s most influential...
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Paycheque to Paycheque: what it’s like to live on minimum wage in Toronto
In June, Ontario’s minimum wage rose from $10.25 to $11 an hour. That’s a record in Canada, only matched by Nunavut, but still...
Life
The Bank of Mom and Dad: confessions of a propped up generation
It seems like every 30-something couple has an embarrassing financial secret: their boomer parents are covering their mortgages, child-care costs and other expenses
City News
The Family That Won’t Leave
Every refugee story is different, but they all have a shared feature: the decisive moment a person realizes he or she can no...
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City News
Save me from my workout
In early fall 2013, my husband, Andrew, and I joined a popular CrossFit gym in the city’s east end. Our first class consisted of...
Food & Drink
Gourmet Travel Special: country escapes for food-loving urbanites
For years, Toronto’s trendiest restaurants have traded on country hallmarks like farm-fresh ingredients, barnboard trimming and...
Food & Drink
Prince Edward County: Eastern Promises
Prince Edward County is a relative tween in wine country years, but new imports like food trucks, pop-up dinners and urbane...
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Creemore: Northern Comforts
Creemore is a rustic hideaway that feels like a Pinterest board come to life. It’s also a beer geek’s nirvana and a haven for...
Food & Drink
Niagara: The Western Front
Forget the typical swirl-and-sip tasting tour. Niagara’s hands-on fun and gluttonous delights include DIY foraging, boozy...
City News
The Captive: John Greyson’s time in Egyptian prison
John Greyson is the quintessential loud-and-proud gay activist—earnest, ardent and perpetually revved up about one cause or...
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The Way We Eat Now: Toronto’s love affair with a new generation of innovative butchers
Like a good dealer, Peter Sanagan knows how to move product. Three years ago, he got me hooked on beef cheeks, once a hard-to-sell...
City News
Toronto’s 30 Best Doctors
This city is the hub of medical research in Canada, with dozens of state-of-the-art facilities and new labs opening all the...
City News
A Tour of Ford Country: the 13 notable places that gave rise to our divisive, duplicitous mayor
Etobicoke is a study in contrasts, a not-quite-suburb where extreme wealth and persistent poverty often share the same street. No...
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City News
Breaking Brian Shin: Portrait of a Bay Street master and suburban drug dealer
Brian Shin seemed like the ideal employee. He worked long hours, dressed sharply and exuded sufficient swagger to fit in on Bay...
City News
RAT APOCALYPSE! Toronto’s new home invaders are growing in shocking numbers
An investigation into how Toronto became a vermin breeding ground
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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