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CBC does God’s work, tracking the hipsterfication of Spadina Avenue
Trigger warning for hipster content . Have you walked up and down Spadina Avenue lately? If so, you’re probably a...
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City News
Kensington’s indie shop owners versus the big bad capitalists: a blow-by-blow breakdown
There’s a gentrification war brewing in the market. On one side are the landlords, many represented by commercial real estate...
City News
The threat of a big-box development is still alive in Kensington Market—but so is Casa Acoreana
The developer hoping to build a big-box development on the western edge of Kensington Market isn’t giving up. After both the...
Food & Drink
Rodney Bowers of Hey Meatball! is launching a meal token program to feed the hungry
This spring, Rodney Bowers, the chef and owner of Hey! and Hey Meatball!, is starting a new program aimed at helping the...
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Food & Drink
The Real Jerk’s new location will be a five-minute stroll from the old location
Sure, it totally sucks that The Real Jerk was booted out of its spot at 709 Queen Street East after 24 years in business. But a...
City News
The Drake Hotel is expanding to Prince Edward County
Jeff Stober , the hotelier behind the Drake, is planning on exporting his brand of Queen West cool to Prince Edward County. Stober...
City News
Reason to Love Toronto: because Regent Park’s The Citadel dance theatre is now a reality
At Dundas and Parliament is a gleaming 60-seat dance theatre called The Citadel. It’s the best thing to happen to Regent Park...
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Food & Drink
Best Bars: A brief history of hooch in Toronto, from 1837 to the present day
By Denise Balkissoon, Ariel Brewster, Andrew D'Cruz, Matthew Hague, Malcolm Johnston, Emily Landau, Jason McBride, Alexandra...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Jane’s Walk, Toronto Comic Arts Festival and six other can’t-miss events
1. JANE’S WALK ( ) 2. KARDINAL OFFISHALL ( ) Kardi’s made some headway south of the border, signing with Akon ’s Konvict...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Fifth Elementt, Bay Street’s Indian fusion restaurant reborn on Queen West
When Bay Street’s Fifth Elementt closed down last May, chef Johnee Savarimuthu knew he wanted to continue the Indian fusion...
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Food & Drink
Gerrard Street East Guide: our nine favourite places along Little India’s main drag
The shop lights on Gerrard Street East stay on till nine—a late-night tradition that started out with the old Bollywood movie...
Food & Drink
The Dundas West Guide: our 21 favourite places between Ossington and Lansdowne
The strip of Dundas West between Ossington and Lansdowne has not been immune to the wild gentrification going on directly south of...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Around the Corner, the west end’s new gluten-free café and breakfast spot
New Toronto—that little pocket of post-war bungalows at Islington and Lakeshore—is teetering on the brink of...
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Real Estate News
Downtown Yonge BIA’s domination plans continue apace
The Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area , the group that helped boost the not-quite-NYC-no-matter-how-hard-it-tries...
City News
Galleries reap rewards of Ossington restaurant restrictions
When the contentious moratorium on new bars and restaurants on Ossington Avenue was passed last year, the strip lost its...
Food & Drink
Joe Pantalone swoops in to limit west-end nightlife—again
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Toronto’s would-be mayor Joe Pantalone is coming down hard on one of the city’s most...
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Shoppers Drug Mart will open at Queen and John
Last week, Urban Planet closed the doors on its massive store at 262 Queen Street West (the same building that once housed...
Food & Drink
Carman’s Dining Club steak house finally put out of its misery
Arthur Carman' s storied and troubled steak house on Alexander Street went into hibernation this summer, never to wake up. This...
Food & Drink
Jolt of caffeine: 13 new independent cafés open in Toronto
While McDonald’s , Tim Hortons and Starbucks duke it out across North America in their giveaway coffee war, a new batch of...
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Food & Drink
The Ossington Guide
Over the past few years, we’ve watched the Ossington strip evolve from a no-go set of dodgy storefronts to an edgy Queen West...
Food & Drink
Rosewater’s former chef, Paul Boehmer, jumps on the Ossington bandwagon with his new restaurant
How much more can Ossington take? A lot, it seems. The avenue’s seemingly endless gentrification will take another step this...
Food & Drink
Mark McEwan predicts that Torontonians will “get” his North York version of Dean & Deluca
We’ve been hearing about McEwan—Mark McEwan’s proposed gourmet grocery store—for what seems like eons now. News about it...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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
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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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!”
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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
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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
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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
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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