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Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: new condo projects, first-time buyers and more market news
Real estate commentators usually reach for sales figures and average prices to explain what’s happening in the market, but there...
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Culture
Current Obsession: stunning aerial photographs of Toronto taken from Canada’s tallest crane
Robert MacFarlane, a crane operator working on Daniel Libeskind’ s L Tower on Front Street, tweets photos from his panoramic...
Real Estate News
The Toronto Star’s old parking lot could soon house Canada’s two tallest condo towers
The plans for a large-scale development at 1 Yonge Street, currently home to a set of low-rise buildings and the Toronto Star’ s...
City News
Bell stakes its claim for downtown Toronto condo owners with big-time cable discounts
A high-stakes turf war is heating up between Rogers and Bell over the chance to provide television to Toronto’s ever-growing...
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Real Estate News
The Chase: an aspiring baker looks for a place with a half-decent kitchen close to her day job
The buyer: Michelle Hotchkiss, a 46-year-old payroll manager. The story: Hotchkiss bought a two-bedroom condo at Queen and...
Real Estate News
Real estate sages’ predictions are right (for once): condo prices are rising at a slower pace
For months, market gurus have been predicting that condo prices would stagnate due to new mortgage regulations and a multitude of...
Real Estate News
CBC reminds us that Toronto wasn’t always condo crazy
It can be difficult to imagine a Toronto skyline uncluttered by the recently finished Shangri-La or Concord’ s perpetually...
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Real Estate News
A look at the best and worst of Frank Gehry’s past mega-projects
When David Mirvish and Frank Gehry announced their major King West redevelopment plans earlier this month, Mirvish said the pair...
Real Estate News
Torontonians are living in smaller and smaller spaces. Here’s why
Some newly released census data should provide ammunition for those who claim the “Manhattanization” of Toronto could see a...
Shopping
The Find: a condo unit for your pet fish
Despite construction issues and warnings about a bubble, the slew of condo towers popping up all over Toronto have some undeniable...
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Real Estate News
Does one tall tower inevitably lead to more? Residents near U of T think so
The University of Toronto created a stir earlier this year when news surfaced about an agreement with Knightstone Capital...
Real Estate News
John Tory thinks there should be condos at Ontario Place (but not too many)
Though the creep of condo towers across Toronto can feel inexorable, John Tory is insisting that Ontario Place could accomodate...
City News
Faulty towers: who’s to blame for condoland’s falling glass, leaky walls and multi-million-dollar lawsuits
Jan Gandhi and Omar Jabri share a love of big-city life: the people, the architecture, the fashion, the logarithmic bustle of...
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Real Estate News
A two-acre lot at Yonge and Wellesley could house a new city park, or condo towers
A prized two-acre piece of provincial land at Yonge and Wellesley is up for sale and councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam is fighting hard...
City News
Police find three crystal meth labs in a Scarborough condo tower
Add meth-producing neighbours to the list of condo owners’ worries—police discovered three crystal meth labs in a Scarborough...
City News
Ontario has a new requirement for building condo balconies: use better glass (duh!)
In a move that was both expected and a long time coming, Ontario Housing Minister Kathleen Wynne has announced that the province...
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City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 1, because boom times are back
Toronto is the rare city experiencing a construction frenzy (185 high-rises, to New York’s 80), a hiring spree (in the last...
City News
Reason to Love Toronto: four new five-star hotels are about to make staycations super-luxe
Toronto is a great place to visit. Just ask the people who live nearby. Residents of Halton Region, a mere 30-minute drive down...
Real Estate News
Toronto Star makes real estate and numbers fun with an illustrated feature on city condo living
In a flurry of pie charts, bar graphs and cartoons this past weekend, the Toronto Star published its first instalment of Vertical...
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Real Estate News
Soon Toronto will have more condos than people
New research by Bank of America Merrill Lynch suggests Toronto is building too many condos for its own good, and the booming...
Real Estate News
Ontario continues not to care about how Toronto looks
One of the sleepiest of sleepy controversies in this city surrounds (almost literally) the legislature at Queen’s Park . The...
Culture
Interactive NFB doc offers viewers a peek at life inside a Toronto high-rise
A stunning new multimedia NFB documentary, offering viewers the chance to explore the apartments of 13 immigrants in 13 different...
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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
Big Stories
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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Food & Drink
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
City News
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