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City News
“Baseball is for everyone”: Meet legendary pitcher Ayami Sato, the first woman to play on a men’s pro team in Canada
The world’s best woman arm on joining the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club, breaking into the sport as a young girl and why she’s crossing the world to up her game
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Memoir
“I was in my forties and happily single, so I decided to marry myself”
Naomi Harris, a 51-year-old photographer from Downsview, travelled to Japan to enjoy a wedding experience for one
Style
Store Guide: Blue Button Shop brings sophisticated Japanese clothing and accessories to Dundas West
Name: Blue Button Shop Sells: Men’s and women’s clothing, accessories, grooming products and home goods Contact info: 1499...
Food & Drink
GALLERY: 10 of the world’s most over-the-top fast foods, in honour of the new Kentucky Chicken Rice
KFC, the culinary innovator that launched the infamous Double Down in 2010, introduced the Kentucky Chicken Rice to Japan this...
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Food & Drink
Ryoji, Toronto’s newest ramen shop and izakaya, is set to open this month
The mania for non-sushi Japanese food that dominated the restaurant scene last year is continuing into 2013: Ramen and Izakaya...
Food & Drink
Hapa the latest Vancouver izakaya to migrate eastward
Yet more evidence that 2012 truly is the year of the Vancouver Japanese import: Hapa Izakaya announced yesterday that it will open...
City News
Japanese giant Rakuten to buy Indigo’s majority stake in Kobo for close to $150 million
Turns out we aren’t the only ones who love Kobo: news broke yesterday that the e-reader company is soon to be scooped up by...
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City News
See, Hear, Read: Three summer arts recommendations from three local experts
Shopping
The Thing: Desktop globes are making a comeback, this time in monochromatic motifs
In the zoomed-in age of Google , with its panoramic street-viewing eye leaving little to the imagination, desktop globes are...
City News
Kissinger versus Ferguson: three things we hope to see at the next Munk Debates
It’s interesting—in the “kind of weird” sense of the term—that an academic debate hosted by the University of Toronto...
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Culture
Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and other Toronto artists are banding together for Japan fundraiser
In today’s hype-obsessed mediascape, it’s easy for public attention to bounce from one issue to another. Toronto to Japan, a...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Harlem Globetrotters, Bugs Bunny and six more distractions
1. HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS This long-running exhibition team—they celebrate their 85 anniversary this year—may have all sorts of...
City News
Toronto’s Patrick Chan skating for more than a medal
Toronto-based figure skater Patrick Chan is all about making Canadians feel warm and fuzzy. First he gave us heartwarming...
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City News
With Canada’s coins getting lighter, we geekily measured loonies against other currencies
The Royal Canadian Mint has weighed in: Canadian dollar and two-dollar coins need to go on a diet. New coins, with a new metal...
City News
In the midst of Japan’s nuclear crisis, demand for iodide pills rises near leaky Pickering plant
With the news that Japan may be on the brink of a serious nuclear crisis, Ontarians living near the Pickering power plant seem to...
Style
Joe Fresh’s anticipated New York opening excites tourists, not analysts
Joe Fresh is making the move to New York this fall, but some skeptics suggest that the Mimran dynasty may have to pull back to...
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Food & Drink
Toronto chefs and Ontario wineries join forces for Japan earthquake relief dinner
In response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last week, a number of Toronto chefs and Ontario wine...
City News
After Japan’s nuclear disaster, Ontario asks important question: what does it mean for us?
The news from Japan today (the most reliable source is from the IAEA ) is pretty alarming, causing many to ask what this all means...
City News
Measured against other countries, are Canadians getting hosed by their ISPs? Let’s compare
One of the biggest questions raised by this week’s usage-based billing fracas is whether Canadians are getting ripped off by...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Nixon in China, Kuumba and six other events on our to-do list
1. FRIDAY AFTER FIVE: DINNER AND A MOVIE This edition of the Gardiner Museum’s popular Friday night event features a screening...
Food & Drink
Toronto to get its very own sake brewer in the Distillery District
When Ken Valvur first tried fresh, unpasteurized Japanese sake, it changed his life. “That’s how I fell in love with it,” he...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Kenzo Ramen, the newest contender in the Annex Japanese restaurant wars
Does the Annex really need another budget-friendly Japanese restaurant? After all, the strip of Bloor Street is flooded with...
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Shopping
Follow the rules: our favourite back-to-school supply for grown-ups
When we first saw this ruler at Mjölk, we were reminded of picking flowers in the garden as a child and pressing them between the...
City News
Toronto ranked 78th priciest city in the world for expats
Torontonians love to complain about every costly entity from real estate to Ticketmaster, but according to the most recent Mercer...
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Summer Camp Guide
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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
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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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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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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