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Olivia Chow, Doug Ford and Mark Carney agree on a jumbo $8.8-billion housing deal
Ontario promised to build 1.5 million new homes by 2031. It’s sorely lagging
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City News
Olivia Chow is coming for Toronto slumlords
A new motion will allow the city to order repairs of dangerous building conditions and make landlords cover the costs
Real Estate News
“We swapped our East York rental for a Scandinavian sanctuary in Sweden”
When Toronto-born writer Mandy Pipher met her Swedish husband, Per, she never imagined following him to his tiny hometown. Then pregnancy, the pandemic and the housing crisis changed her mind
Real Estate News
Mississauga prepares for an influx of townhouses, garden suites and affordable housing
Like death and taxes, density comes for us all
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Real Estate News
Toronto performs an about-face on tiny homes by launching a new shelter program
The two-year pilot asks non-profits to design micro-residences for people experiencing homelessness
Real Estate News
Toronto condo prices have sunk to the $300,000s
The city’s infamous army of glass-box units inches closer to affordability
Real Estate News
Canada’s commercial real estate scene is banking on a $56-billion injection this year
Nationwide return-to-office mandates could spur up to 1.64 million square feet of new office space
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Real Estate News
The construction industry warns that 100,000 jobs are at risk
“You have to look back to the 1940s to find a comparable collapse in new home construction”
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!”
Real Estate News
Don’t look now, but Toronto is leading Canada in new housing starts
It’s early days, but the city handily beat out Montreal and Vancouver
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City News
The province wants to pause affordable housing requirements near transit hubs
Planning and Housing Committee chair Gord Perks said the proposed change would be “cruel”
Real Estate News
Toronto home sales are the lowest in a quarter century
Last time the market was this quiet, the CN Tower didn’t glow and the Ossington strip was dilapidated
Real Estate News
Six new towers have been proposed for Scarborough’s Guildwood GO station
That means a staggering 2,500 units, retail, offices, a park and a new underground garage for commuters
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Real Estate News
Toronto rent hasn’t been this low since the pandemic
But it’s still pretty high
Real Estate News
Toronto is converting this Harbord Village heritage building into a homeless shelter
It’s 720 Bathurst, the former home of the Centre for Social Innovation, and it cost the city $16 million
Real Estate News
The
Toronto Star
building may escape demolition by converting into a fancy hotel
Developer Pinnacle International wants the city’s waterfront to become a global tourist destination
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Real Estate News
The average monthly mortgage in Toronto is now more than 110 per cent of the average family income
The rest of Ontario ain’t looking so hot either
Real Estate News
TMU will replace the Imperial Pub with more than 1,300 student units
Goodbye, sentimental drinking. Hello, condo-style suites for the youth
Real Estate News
One Bloor West may have its pre-construction sale agreements terminated
Eight years after breaking ground, Toronto’s most controversial super-tall condo is still hitting hurdles
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“Losing the green roof industry will be costly”: Toronto’s climate-friendly by-law dies without debate
Premier Doug Ford axed the pioneering policy as a repudiation of “red tape”
Deep Dives
Prime Minister Mark Carney on texting with Trump, staring down the housing crisis and the perils of AI
For defending Canada in a time of turmoil, the PM is
Toronto Life
’s most influential person of the year
Real Estate News
This already super-tall waterfront development is getting more towers
A new proposal adds two 80-storey skyscrapers and 2,400 housing units
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A paltry 53 condo units sold this past September
And only 155 units sold across the entire GTA. It really is the ’90s again
City News
What’s in it for us? How Mark Carney’s budget will affect Torontonians
Housing, taxes, health care. Also: Eurovision!
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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
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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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