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Kensington Market
Food & Drink
La Palette shuttering its Kensington location this weekend
When Shamez Amlani muses about this coming Sunday, it’s not without a little sentimentality. Three days from now, the restaurant...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Goed Eten, where we find the city’s best waffles
When Johan Maes closed his beloved Kensington Market waffle shack in 2008, his loyal customers were bereft. His reopening on...
City News
Toronto’s six most memorable neighbourhood naming smackdowns
Toronto: city of neighbourhoods, multiculturalism and, to a lesser extent, bureaucracy. These three attributes collide most often...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2010: 14 picks for the top food in Toronto
Korean feast Owl of Minerva 700 Bloor St. W., 416-538-3030 The trendy Asian cuisine of the moment is at its most authentic when...
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Food & Drink
Best of the City 2010: four top new venues to drink, dance and party
variation on bottle service Brooklynn 1186 Queen St. W., 416-536-7700 A request for bottle service, that ostentatious nightclub...
Real Estate News
With his one-time Toronto home to be demolished, Frank Gehry calls incoming condos “awful,” with “shitty-looking” lobby
The childhood home of legendary architect Frank Gehry, located near the AGO on Beverley Street, is apparently slated for...
City News
Toronto MP Joe Volpe proposes new rights for shopkeepers, including bondage
One of the larger controversies in Chinatown and Kensington Market over the past year has been the case of David Chen, who is...
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Style
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library closes after speculation
It looks like the curtain has closed on This Ain’t the Rosedale Library —for now, at least. In a blog post explaining that a...
Style
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library addresses closure rumours
Toronto's literary set assumed the worst on Saturday when a bailiff’s notice appeared in the window of This Ain’t the Rosedale...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto
While the Great Recession battered other cities, Toronto has emerged triumphant—Bay Street is bullish, our real estate market is...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: La Palette, Queen West edition
The new outpost of La Palette on Queen West has much in common with the Kensington Market original: a nearly identically sized...
City News
G20’s Toronto takeover: a roundup of snarls, snags, closures and general headaches
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the perimeter fences that will cordon off vast swaths of downtown for the G20 (June 25 to...
City News
The List: Brendan Canning’s favourite things
Broken Social Scene’s long-awaited fourth album is out, and their annual Island concert is this month. Here, 10 things the...
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Food & Drink
More details about La Palette’s new Queen West location
As we reported last week, Kensington Market’s La Palette is opening a new location on Queen West. After a chat with owner Shamez...
Food & Drink
Three restaurant expansions offer some optimism for Toronto’s restaurant industry
After two years of restaurant death watches, it seems like 2010 is going to be a time of cautious expansion in Toronto's...
Shopping
Good Stuff Cheap: the fashion challenge
We dared two of the city’s retail celebs— Maha Zeibak, co‑owner of Yorkville’s UPC Boutique , and Julian Finkel, clothing...
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Food & Drink
Rachel McAdams takes cooking classes in Kensington Market
Rachel McAdams plays it differently than most homegrown starlets who find success in Hollywood: she lives north of the border in a...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
This Kensington Market restaurant elevates a cafeteria classic to a delectable lunch, served with a creamy soup and a shot of...
Food & Drink
Midnight snack redefined as masked chef starts breaking into Toronto restaurants in the middle of the night
If there has been a bump in the night at Toronto restaurants lately, it wasn't a jolly old man bearing gifts. It’s the Night...
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Shopping
Find gorgeous handmade scarves at Kalabandar’s private sale
With fans of every age and in every social sphere, the scarf is one trend that shows no sign of wavering. Some of the most...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Burger Bar
Wholly cow: Owner of the Rice Bar turned his vegan outfit into a celebration of beef (Photo by Catherine Hayday) Brock Shepherd...
Food & Drink
A room of his own: Zane Caplansky moves his deli to old Jewish town
Zane Caplansky is bringing his celebrated “Toronto smoked meat”—part Schwartz’s , part Hogtown corned beef—to a brand...
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Style
Toronto’s Best Dressed: Biko Beauttah
Head-to-toe Chanel is a style statement most women can only dream of making. But then, Biko Beauttah is not your typical lady who...
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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
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
Just Listed
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For Sale: 99 Lake Promenade
This classic Hamptons-style home by Chatsworth Fine Homes offers an exciting opportunity to customize a new dream home and build instant value - without the long wait of new construction
Just Listed
For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
Just Listed
For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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
Just Listed
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