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Critic: we review Cafe Boulud, the casual Yorkville bistro from New York chef Daniel Boulud
Toronto expected four-star French dining from Cafe Boulud in the Four Seasons. Instead, the city got another trendy two-star...
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The Erotic Education of Anna Silk: the Lost Girl star on playing a bisexual succubus
A woman in a leather miniskirt and stilettos staggers down a darkened corridor and rings the buzzer beside a bolted door. The man...
City News
Inside Pearson Airport’s ultra-luxe private hub for celebs, executives and well-to-dos
Ever wonder why famous types are rarely spotted idling by the baggage carousel or in the customs line? At Pearson, three deluxe...
City News
The Audit: bank bonuses, the Blue Jays’ payroll and the month’s other notable numbers
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The Interview: Factory Theatre’s artistic directors Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams
Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams, Factory Theatre’s new artistic directors, struggle to save the season amid...
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Jesse Brown: Why music streaming services mean the death of radio—or perhaps its rebirth
Video never did kill the radio star. Neither did CDs or MP3s or even satellite radio, which tried to take down dusty old AM/FM...
City News
Sex Without Borders: the complicated couplings of Toronto’s pleasure-seeking polyamorists
Stephane and Samantha’s open marriage includes shared girlfriends, bacchanalian house parties and always asking permission...
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Editor’s Letter (February 2013): public sex, massage parlours and bawdy houses
I myself have never had sex in public. As it turns out, I’m in the minority. An astonishing 65 per cent of Torontonians claim to...
City News
Spotlight: Kristen Thomson depicts a marriage gone pear-shaped in her powerful new play Someone Else
Over a decade ago, Kristen Thomson collaborated with director Chris Abraham to create I, Claudia, the now-classic work about a...
City News
The Profile: Calum de Hartog, the Toronto cop behind CBC’s new police drama Cracked
Calum de Hartog has seen some scary things in his job as a frontline Toronto cop. Now, as the co-creator of the new CBC drama...
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Memoir: when I moved away from my overprotective parents at age 17, I was primed for trouble
I grew up in sleepy, suburban Calgary. My parents are conservative, first-generation immigrants from...
City News
The Moment: the Bill 115 dust-up has been as mature as a cafeteria food fight
When a relationship goes sour, both sides tend to behave badly. McGuinty, the self-styled Education Premier, went first: his...
City News
See, Hear, Read: our experts pick January’s best movie, music and book release
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases “ Downton Abbey is a soapy period drama that pays as much attention to history...
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Year in Review: Read all of Toronto Life’s cover stories from the past 12 months
In the past year, Toronto Life rated the city’s best new restaurants, talked to Rob Ford’ s inner circle and examined...
City News
Send in the Clowns: behind the desk with SportsCentre’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole
Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole can’t stop laughing—at fumbling athletes, at ranting coaches and especially at their own jokes
City News
Reason to Love Toronto: because the Next LeBron James is from Thornhill
When 17-year-old Andrew Wiggins leapt into the air and reared back a tomahawk dunk this past summer at the prestigious LeBron...
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The Argument: Marion Cotillard, Hollywood’s favourite French actress, gets unleashed in Rust and Bone
The first time I saw Marion Cotillard in the flesh was at this year’s TIFF. The jaw-droppingly gorgeous French actress was...
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Fetal Position: inside the world of Lia Mills, the 16-year-old leader of a new generation of anti-abortion activists
Lia Mills didn’t start Grade 7 with a plan to become famous. The year was 2009, and she was enrolled in a gifted class at Gordon...
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Editor’s Letter (January 2013): why Toronto is suddenly such a hotbed of creative talent
Over the past year or so, a particular breed of talented Torontonians made it big. Sheila Heti’s quirky semi-autobiographical...
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Philip Preville: How the crumbling Gardiner became a symbol for all that ails Toronto
While city hall spent a decade debating what to do with the Gardiner—Demolish it? Bury it? Raise it?—the expressway fell into...
City News
Primer: how to choose between Toronto’s big holiday shows
It’s time to suspend your cynicism and surrender to one of the city’s big, gooey, hurt-your-teeth-sweet holiday...
City News
50 Most Influential 2012: nine formidable Toronto power couples
Individually, they’re among Toronto’s biggest bigwigs. Together, they’re unstoppable. Here, a look at the Toronto power...
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50 Most Influential 2012: the inaugural class of inductees into the Toronto power players hall of fame
For some, being powerful is a chronic condition. These are the long-lived titans who continue to influence the city with their...
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50 Most Influential 2012: eight up-and-coming Toronto hot shots ready to take the reins of power
They’re expert networkers with fast-growing clout. Meet the establishment figures of tomorrow. His year-old west end gallery...
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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
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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
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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