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Editor’s Letter (March 2012): technology, innovation and the importance of making products of real value

Editor’s Letter (March 2012): technology, innovation and the importance of making products of real value

Five years ago, I was living in Brooklyn, where I was a member of a not-for-profit neighbourhood organization called Park Slope...

QUOTED: Galen Weston on just what he thinks of the competition

—Loblaw executive chairman Galen Weston at the Canadian Food Summit, reflecting on the importance of food inspections (to be...

Recipe to Riches picked up for a second season of thoroughly branded competitive cooking

Your favourite competitive cooking show—no, not that one—is back for a second season, according to the folks at Food Network...

Q&A with the home cook who won Recipe to Riches and took home $250,000

Q&A with the home cook who won Recipe to Riches and took home $250,000

Last night, as thousands of Canadians looked on from their living rooms, Recipe to Riches came full circle when Glo...

Neighbourhood Watch: How the east Annex became Toronto’s trendiest ’hood

Neighbourhood Watch: How the east Annex became Toronto’s trendiest ’hood

Elbow-patched academics, keg-emptying frat boys and earthy middle-incomers have long ruled the Annex. But lately, a clutch of...

Reaction Roundup: what Toronto is saying about its new, hockey-themed grocery paradise (i.e., Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens)

Reaction Roundup: what Toronto is saying about its new, hockey-themed grocery paradise (i.e., Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens)

In the seven years since news broke that the Maple Leaf Gardens would be turning into a grocery store, it’s become something of...

Introducing: Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens, downtown’s enormous new food emporium

Introducing: Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens, downtown’s enormous new food emporium

When a heritage building like Maple Leaf Gardens is renovated, there’s always a concern that whatever goes inside will gut the...

Recipe to Riches Reviewed: Episode 5, The Smart Cookie

Recipe to Riches Reviewed: Episode 5, The Smart Cookie

Last things first: at the end of this week’s episode (the sweet and savoury snacks challenge), the producers flashed a...

The Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 5 (wherein Black is poor and sends his own faxes)

The Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 5 (wherein Black is poor and sends his own faxes)

The press comes down hard on Black as news of his unceremonious ousting from Hollinger becomes public. Blackguard Rupert Murdoch...

Gregory Burke pulled the Power Plant out of debt and enhanced its international reputation. Then, he quit.

Gregory Burke pulled the Power Plant out of debt and enhanced its international reputation. Then, he quit.

The Power Plant’s first board meeting of the year was held at noon on Monday, February 7. The gallery, situated on prime...

Meet the eight locals that make it onto Forbes’ list of the world’s 1,140 billionaires

Meet the eight locals that make it onto Forbes’ list of the world’s 1,140 billionaires

According to The Social Network , a million dollars isn’t cool. But you know what is? A billion dollars. If that’s the...

Introducing: Briscola, Cinq 01’s rustic Italian successor

Introducing: Briscola, Cinq 01’s rustic Italian successor

Briscola, the new rustic Italian restaurant from Ink Entertainment ’s Charles Khabouth and Amber ’s Toufik Sarwa , opened last...

New Canadian reality show to feature eye-popping $250,000 grand prize

New Canadian reality show to feature eye-popping $250,000 grand prize

While we’re anxiously awaiting news of the forthcoming Top Chef Canada , a new Canadian food-based reality television series has...

Secrets of a society photographer: George Pimentel shares his favourite shots

Secrets of a society photographer: George Pimentel shares his favourite shots

Galen Weston Jr. ’s Bieber haircut, a commando mission to shoot Conrad Black, and the never-ending battle for fashion...

Inside the Bay’s scheme to steal the fashion crown from Holts

Inside the Bay’s scheme to steal the fashion crown from Holts

The sensible shoes and twin sets are gone, replaced by stilettos and crystal-encrusted gowns. There are valet parking and personal shoppers, and they’re serving champagne up on three. It’s all a part of the Bay’s scheme to win the loyalty of society shopaholics—and steal the fashion crown from Holts

TIFF’s most memorable couples

TIFF’s most memorable couples

Is it just us, or were significant others one of the most commonly spotted red carpet accessories? Nicole, Jon, Megan (to name a...

Thompson Hotel opening: pillow fights, pool parties and an hour wait for the rooftop

Thompson Hotel opening: pillow fights, pool parties and an hour wait for the rooftop

By 10 p.m. last night, the wait for the elevator was an hour long, and the rooftop patio was at capacity. We shouldn't have been...

Black carrots are the latest craze, Madonna hates cheese, Prohibition feud heats up

Black carrots are the latest craze, Madonna hates cheese, Prohibition feud heats up

• Feuding continues at Queen Street East bar Prohibiton. Ex-manager Joey McGuirk published a letter from his lawyer on...

We hit up Coco Rocha at the Holt Renfrew fash bash

Holt Renfrew took their annual gala, always the festival’s most fashionable bash, to new heights last night—the very top of...

Julia Child revisited, dining with dogs, a new breakfast chain for Ontario

Julia Child revisited, dining with dogs, a new breakfast chain for Ontario

• Going out for a bite can be a problem if one’s puppy wants to come too. Writer Ivy Knight suggests that there are a few...

A $75,000 recipe, China’s “illegal” pork ban, and Meryl’s Julia Child impression

• To brighten up this Wednesday morning, here’s Meryl Streep doing an awesome Julia Child impression for the upcoming movie...

Who’s Minding the Store: Can Galen Weston Jr. save Loblaws?

Who’s Minding the Store: Can Galen Weston Jr. save Loblaws?

Loblaw’s decline is a story of clashing egos, professional jealousy and strategic screw-ups, the biggest mistake being the company’s decision to try to out-Wal-Mart Wal-Mart.

Summer Camp Guide

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages

Best New Restaurants

Toronto Life ’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8

Toronto Life’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8

General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks

Big Stories

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

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

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

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

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

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

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

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

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

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

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

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

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

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

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

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

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

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

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

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

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

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

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

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

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

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

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

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

Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes

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!”

Just Listed

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

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

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

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