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This is the era of the polar vortex. Winters are colder, storms are icier and the frost sticks around till May. You could...

A private school kid gone bad, the night Sammy Yatim died, and how tiny condos became the new family home—here are our most-read...

Raed Jaser, a school bus driver with a long record of petty crime, and Chiheb Esseghaier, a doctoral student in...

My parents gave me a great chance at life. I grew up in a three-bedroom house in Lawrence Park, where I spent weekends riding my...

Edward Rogers expected to run the family empire after the death of his father, Ted. But the board squeezed him out

The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame

A new generation of parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids

The rich and powerful want to keep their pretty rural getaway for themselves. The suburban developer Benny Marotta had other...

Just before midnight on July 26, 2013, Sammy Yatim boarded a westbound Dundas streetcar and made his way to the back. He was...

Torontonians are spoiled by luxury—an inevitable side effect of living in a city where you can book a private chopper to...

met Ian Borbely at a mutual friend’s party in 2003. They came from different worlds. She was 25 and striking, with long black...

David Mirvish wants to dismantle his famous father’s empire to build two giant Frank Gehry towers and a gallery for his personal...

Election years have a way of reminding us what we love about our city. Whatever you think of our punchline of a mayor, there’s...

The weird, wonderful market at the heart of the city withstood every threat of redevelopment. Then Loblaws and Walmart came...

In a city where space is at a premium, tiny condos are the new family home. Learning to survive in 700 square feet

When hip-hop and NBA stars want a good time, they call party queen Mona Halem. Inside a decadent world of $700 champagne, secret guest lists and hordes of beautiful women

I’d gladly spend every night in a bar seat facing the open kitchen at Chantecler. Two scruffy young chefs squeeze past one...

Elaine Lui became one of the world’s most influential celebrity gossips by exhibiting a bratty disregard for the pieties of showbiz. What happens now that she’s nearly as famous as the stars she skewers?

The corporate insider Nigel Wright engineered Stephen Harper’s rise to prime minister and became his closest confidant. As chief of staff, he acted as a conduit between Bay Street and the PMO—until Harper thought he could make the Senate scandal go away by cutting Wright loose

Alexander Neef and Johannes Debus have turned the COC into a thriving opera company by attracting international divas and staging...

December’s freak storm left 300,000 Toronto homes without power, while temperatures plummeted to record lows. It brought out the...

The Saturday Night Live honcho is the ultimate Hollywood kingmaker. Here, a who’s who of his star system Lorne Michaels, the...

In Punjabi, “pind” literally means “village.” The word has intense ­evocations: a pind is your hometown, the seedbed from...

Remember that time Rob Ford claimed “the Oriental people” were taking over because they worked like dogs? My parents thought...