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Queen West named a “great place to explore” in USA Today
Resident urban creative class guru Richard Florida recently drew up a list for USA Today’ s Larry Bleiberg of 10 up-and-coming...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Samsara, TD Toronto Jazz Festival and six other events on our to do list
1. TD TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL Somehow, the organizers of this annual music fest always manage to book musicians that even non-jazz...
Food & Drink
New co-op grocery store coming to Parkdale later this year
The West End Food Co-op — the folks behind the popular Sorauren Farmers’ Market —have partnered up with the Parkdale...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Onegin, Canada Blooms and six other events on our to-do list
1. CANADA BLOOMS Walking through the grounds of this huge flower-focused festival is like bypassing the last weekend of winter and...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Heart, Nature Unleashed and six other can’t-miss events
1. HEART Remember when rock star sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson sent John McCain’s campaign a cease-and-desist letter after he...
Culture
Come Up to My Room preview: get a sneak peek of the Gladstone Hotel’s annual design show
We were lucky enough to get an advance look at some of the work being set up at the Gladstone Hotel for Come Up to My Room. Some...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Winterlicious, Barrymore and six other can’t-miss events
1. CONNECTING: TORONTO IS AN AWFUL CITY As part of the ROM’s regular Connecting series, Toronto Star urban affairs columnist...
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Shopping
Good Stuff Cheap: 100 items under $10
We scoured this booty-filled city and scooped up its best deals Start the slideshow » (All images by Felix Wedgwood)
Style
Great Spaces: DIY domestic bliss
For one artistically inclined couple, a late-night foray into on-line dating led to DIY domestic bliss In November 2007, Chris...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Royal Winter Fair, Day of the Dead Festival and six other events on our to-do list
1. CAPTURE THE FLAG The suit-filled streets of the financial district get a Newmindspace make-over during this huge game of...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: nine things on our to-do list (yes, including Halloween events)
1. CINDERELLA: ROCK THE BALL The annual fundraising gala for the Canadian Opera Company, Operanation is always a place to see and...
Culture
Jonathan Demme to host art exhibit at Gladstone Hotel during TIFF
The westward movement of TIFF action this year continues with Jonathan Demme' s prized collection of Haitian and Jamaican art on...
Real Estate News
House of the week: $5 million for an Eb Zeidler-designed Rosedale sanctuary
ADDRESS: 11 Beaumont Rd. NEIGHBOURHOOD: Rosedale-Moore Park AGENT: Elise S. Kalles, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage...
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Food & Drink
Pride: a complete list of bars serving until 4 a.m.
Of all the fun associated with Pride—the parade, the wild outfits, the half-naked people littering the streets—call us...
Style
Details magazine takes on Toronto, barely leaves 501 streetcar
Details magazine has named Toronto a mecca of “modern-art galleries, high-concept restaurants and fashion-forward boutiques,”...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Grease, Buy Design’s spring social and six other things to do this weekend
1. FARM TO HOME FAIR 2010 This annual food fair is a locavore’s dream: meet and greets with farmers, info sessions on...
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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...
Food & Drink
Toronto New Year’s Eve celebrations: a 10-part field guide
Choosing one New Year’s Eve event over hundreds of others can be daunting, especially when all the descriptions meld together...
Food & Drink
New book takes a bite out of Toronto
The Toronto food scene gets a ton of media coverage, but until recently there has been a dearth of books covering the city’s...
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Food & Drink
Cuban festival turns Queen Street into Castro Street—sort of
This weekend, West Queen West goes Cubano with the second annual Havana Cultura Festival. There will be music, cigar rolling...
Culture
Geoff Pevere talks to us about Toronto’s role in cinema history
“It’s kind of like living in the world’s biggest stand-in,” writes Toronto Star veteran film critic Geoff Pevere in his...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s espresso experts tell us of coffee’s second coming, what makes a good cup and why Starbucks isn’t all bad
The atmosphere may have been frothy at the Seventh Annual Regional Barista Championships at the Gladstone Hotel last Sunday, but...
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Food & Drink
Rogue cheese makers, Toronto restaurant closures, how to be a coffee snob
• Canada’s cheese makers are concerned that as the popularity of aged cheese increases, the substandard work of amateur cheese...
Food & Drink
Why Toronto’s top chefs will be serving comfort food well into summer
Comfort food staples usually disappear from menus around this time of year, but the city's top toques are finding reason to serve...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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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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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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