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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I go barefoot on the treadmill at the gym?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a physiotherapist, and I recently started running barefoot on the treadmill at my gym. To my...
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Memoir: an ulcerative colitis sufferer learns that diagnoses, like illnesses, are never straightforward
It began in 2002 when my partner, Blair, and I were sitting at a booth in a Toronto emergency room, singing a ridiculous song...
City News
Q&A: we ask TDSB director Chris Spence if specialized schools are becoming too specialized
TDSB director Chris Spence is launching a series of public elementary academies, each focused on singing, wellness or leadership...
City News
Memoir: art and autism, lessons from my sister
I thought a creative collaboration with my sister would help draw her out of her autism. I didn’t expect it to change something...
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Should Rob Ford tell the public about any medical issues?
With city council on hiatus for the summer, last week’s big news was a mini mayoral health scare ( Rob Ford spent two nights in...
City News
Jan Wong: the simmering class war over basement apartments in Brampton
I once moved into an illegal basement apartment in Toronto for a newspaper series about working undercover as a maid. At $750 a...
Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: various dried basil products, for home and professional use
The product: Spice Kingdom Basil—Egyptian, 30M, whole, fancy (sold in bulk 25 kg bags); All Seasons basil rubbed (in 2.27 kg...
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Memoir: Jan Wong’s search for the right antidepressant
Even with sedatives, I couldn’t sleep. I kept losing weight. I was crying every day. One night, I lost my temper with my son...
Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: diced onions in a box, with and without celery (UPDATED)
UPDATE: The CFIA has expanded the health hazard alert to encompass all the Gills diced onions mentioned below with a best before...
Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: Earth Greens boxed salads from Sobeys
The product: Earth Greens brand Organic Italian Blend salad (sold in a 198 gram plastic clamshell package) The UPC: 8 18431 00107...
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QUOTED: Doug Ford’s daughter Krista on whether she’ll be the third Ford at city hall
— Krista Ford, a personal trainer and former Lingerie Football League player, on whether she’d ever join her dad, Doug...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 2, because we’re pumped for gold
The posse of Torontonians who’ll invade this summer’s London Olympics is determined to return with more medals than...
City News
Jan Wong: Why the LCBO—the antiquated, paternalistic monopoly that’s deliberately gouging us—has got to go
On a recent Sunday afternoon, I stopped by the LCBO’s flagship Summerhill store. A glorious 35,000 square feet of creamy Italian...
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Food & Drink
Nutella settles lawsuit over health claims (apparently chocolate spread is not, in fact, health food)
Apparently the world of tasty hazelnut spreads can get pretty litigious. Ferrero, the company behind the sweet, sweet chocolate...
City News
A report recommends three safe-injection sites in Toronto, but the province doesn’t agree
Researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto took four years to produce a hefty report on safe...
City News
Rob Ford temporarily succumbs to debilitating Easter parade injury
Like all self-respecting reporters, members of the Toronto media generally consider Rob Ford ’ s health off-limits—unless...
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Quoted: A melodramatic George Smitherman on what he’ll rue for now and forever
—Former Ontario health minister George Smitherman during hearings held earlier this week at Queen’s Park, admitting he wishes...
Food & Drink
Dan and Kristin Donovan of Hooked launch Canada’s first Slow Fish chapter
Good, Clean and Fair. That’s the battle cry of Slow Food International, the Italy-based organization with a mandate to enlighten...
Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: over 135 burger products, all potentially contaminated with E. coli
The product: Just about every other brand of store-bought burger this side of the 49th parallel (OK, not quite—the extensive...
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South Africa prepares for a pork-off with Canada over health claims
South Africans will happily eat millions of dollars worth of Canadian pork every year, but if we keep (allegedly!) exporting our...
City News
Memoir: a high-stakes war adventure in Afghanistan is hard to replicate in peace-loving Toronto
For the last 10 years, I’ve been a reservist with the Queen’s York Rangers, a Toronto-based army unit. After basic...
Food & Drink
Grabbing a shawarma for lunch? It might have more fat than a Big Mac
In addition to being a useful tool for economists and fodder for schlocky documentary filmmakers, the Big Mac, with its 540...
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Rosie DiManno writes a really weird column begrudging Rob Ford’s weight loss
With the wall-to-wall coverage of TTC boss Gary Webster ’ s firing, you might have missed another story coming out of city hall...
Food & Drink
Is drinking coffee simply too taxing? There’s an inhaler for that
After marvelling (and despairing a little) at breathable chocolate and bacon inhalers, only the latter of which turned out to be...
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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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