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Toronto Life’s most popular longform features of 2014
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...
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The Jihadists of Suburbia
Raed Jaser, a school bus driver with a long record of petty crime, and Chiheb Esseghaier, a doctoral student in...
City News
Gone Girl: I was a private school kid from Rosedale—until I ended up on the street
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...
From the archives
The Man Who Would Be King: Inside the ruthless battle for control of the $34-billion Rogers empire
Edward Rogers expected to run the family empire after the death of his father, Ted. But the board squeezed him out
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Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
City News
The Vaccine Truthers: why parents shun life-saving shots
A new generation of parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids
City News
Battleground Caledon
The rich and powerful want to keep their pretty rural getaway for themselves. The suburban developer Benny Marotta had other...
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The killing of Sammy Yatim
Just before midnight on July 26, 2013, Sammy Yatim boarded a westbound Dundas streetcar and made his way to the back. He was...
City News
Best of the City 2014: The ultimate insider’s guide to food, drink, fashion and fun
Torontonians are spoiled by luxury—an inevitable side effect of living in a city where you can book a private chopper to...
City News
Murder in Muskoka: How a mysterious crate in a cottage crawl space cracked Samantha Collins’s murder
met Ian Borbely at a mutual friend’s party in 2003. They came from different worlds. She was 25 and striking, with long black...
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David Mirvish on the Edge
David Mirvish wants to dismantle his famous father’s empire to build two giant Frank Gehry towers and a gallery for his personal...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: our sixth annual reminder of why we love it here
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...
City News
For the love of Kensington
The weird, wonderful market at the heart of the city withstood every threat of redevelopment. Then Loblaws and Walmart came...
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Stuck in Condoland
In a city where space is at a premium, tiny condos are the new family home. Learning to survive in 700 square feet
City News
Sin City with snow: secrets of Toronto’s VIP club scene
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
Food & Drink
Where to Eat Now: everything you need to know about dining in Toronto in 2014
I’d gladly spend every night in a bar seat facing the open kitchen at Chantecler. Two scruffy young chefs squeeze past one...
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In Lurv With Lainey: Elaine Lui’s rise to the top of the gossip pantheon
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?
City News
With Friends Like Harper: how Nigel Wright went from golden boy to fall guy
The corporate insider Nigel Wright engineered Stephen Harper’s rise to prime minister and became his closest confidant. As chief...
City News
The Wizards of Opera: how two dapper Germans made Toronto fall in love with opera
Alexander Neef and Johannes Debus have turned the COC into a thriving opera company by attracting international divas and staging...
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The Ice Age: six remarkable stories from Toronto’s holiday ice storm
December’s freak storm left 300,000 Toronto homes without power, while temperatures plummeted to record lows. It brought out the...
City News
The Lorne Supremacy: how Lorne Michaels reshaped the world of comedy
The Saturday Night Live honcho is the ultimate Hollywood kingmaker. Here, a who’s who of his star system Lorne Michaels, the...
City News
The Divided City: Rexdale isn’t perfect, but I prefer it to the hypocrisy of downtown
In Punjabi, “pind” literally means “village.” The word has intense evocations: a pind is your hometown, the seedbed from...
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The Divided City: my Chinese immigrant parents will vote for Ford—as long as he doesn’t raise their taxes
Remember that time Rob Ford claimed “the Oriental people” were taking over because they worked like dogs? My parents thought...
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The Divided City: multiculturalism left us stuck on the periphery of Toronto
The squat apartment building was nothing special. The super, Mr. Lee, was forever yelling at us kids. He was in a constant rage...
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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