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Inside an east-end funhouse overflowing with kooky souvenirs
After fleeing Republican-run Iowa, these transplants from the States decorated their new Canadian home with a Masonic temple star, hand-painted walls and oodles of knick-knacks
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Inside an Omar Gandhi–designed home built for intergenerational living
With an elevator, Punjabi window screens and an ultra-modern layout, Sav Brar and his family’s home is as functional as it is beautiful
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Inside a three-storey Annex condo brimming with taxidermy and oddball art
Colin Hutzan and Brian Nguyen’s home is a shrine to the weird and wonderful
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Top Shelf: Four drool-worthy home libraries
Featuring a 22-foot-tall statement bookshelf (with a 10-foot ladder), an art deco lit haven, a treasure trove of travel tomes and more
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Real Estate News
Inside Toronto’s swankiest condo lobbies
Gone are the days of a lone concierge sitting behind a sad desk. Today’s best condo lobbies are lounges, bars, cafés and workspaces all rolled into one
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Inside the apartment of the city’s most dedicated Barbie collector
Featuring vintage collectibles, artwork and decor from the world’s most famous series of dolls
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Six companies creating custom furnishings for Drake, Roc Nation and Richard Branson
Including can't-believe-they're-not-neon LED lights, free-form rugs and coffee tables made with diamond dust
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Shopping List: 37 must-have home decor products from Toronto’s top design pros
Toronto has countless furniture stores, art galleries and showrooms selling everything from custom light fixtures to handmade...
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Great Spaces: Take tours of four of Toronto’s boldest, boxiest new homes
Torontonians are finally rejecting fussy Victorian architecture and going bold. In almost every neighbourhood, there’s a house...
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Style Mates: the co-owners of L’Ouvrier restaurant open up their chic Little Portugal home
Justine Fowler and Angus Bennett are the 30-year-old co-owners of the Dundas West restaurant L’Ouvrier (Bennett is also the...
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Style Mates: inside the cheerful Annex apartment shared by Joe Mimran’s son and his fashion editor partner
It’s no surprise that the Annex condo shared by Jordan Porter, a fashion and beauty editor, and Alexander Mimran, a web...
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Style Mates: a fashion photographer and a business analyst’s airy, quirky space in Davisville
Hami and Renata Kaveh met at university in Ottawa. She’s now 31 and a fashion photographer, he’s 35 and a business...
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Great Spaces: a designer’s Brooklyn sensibility finds a home in Parkdale
Courtney Wotherspoon never intended to settle in Toronto. The 31-year-old illustrator and designer studied at the Pratt Institute...
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Gallery: 25 top products and installations at the Interior Design Show Toronto 2013
The Interior Design Show brings more than than 50,000 design buffs, decorators and house-proud Torontonians to the Metro Toronto...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.6 million for an interior designer’s Casa Loma Victorian
ADDRESS: 6 Rathnelly Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma AGENT: Leeanne Weld , Royal LePage/J & D Division, Brokerage PRICE:...
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Great Spaces: inside a couple’s modish Parkdale renovation
In the summer of 2007, Anna Zalewski quit her job as a Bay Street lawyer, sold her house in Riverdale and moved to Barcelona. Her...
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Great Spaces: five tiny homes that prove tight spaces can be completely comfortable
Toronto homes are getting smaller by the second—250-square-foot units are coming soon to a condo near you. Here, a look at how a...
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Great Spaces: a Rosedale couple fills their condo with curios gathered over 51 years together
Alan Hanlon and Andy Body rarely entertain at home. They prefer socializing at the Ritz-Carlton or La Société, and reserve...
Shopping
Best of Fall 2012: we ask trendsetters to pick their fall must-haves
(Images: flats courtesy of The Room; snood courtesy of Louis Vuitton)
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Food & Drink
We fête the launch of the Toronto Life Cookbook with sample recipes from top Toronto chefs and mixologists
Last night, we celebrated the launch of our newest special interest publication, the first-ever Toronto Life Cookbook— the urban...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do we tell our friends that we’re not going to work (for free) on their new home any longer?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Our friends bought their first house for $100K over their budget, and it needs a ton of work. My husband is a...
City News
Real estate advice: the latest tips on buying, selling, staging and design from local experts
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The Sell: One family’s adventures in house flipping
They bought it for a song, gutted it, then learned a hard lesson about house flipping The sellers: Phares Sekalala, a 41-year-old...
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A giant condo on Bloor West is set to be the most expensive in the country (if it’s sold for the listed price)
With a reported $30-million price tag, the 10,000-square-foot Cumberland Apartment at 130 Bloor Street West could soon be...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
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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
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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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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