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Lake Ontario
Memoir
“I fell in love with gliding over the water like Jesus”
After the death of his father, 41-year-old lip-balm company owner Eric Fallon decided to seize each day and stop putting off new experiences. Enter his latest hobby: wing foiling
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Memoir
“My grandpa was the oldest person to swim across Lake Huron. He inspired me to take on Lake Ontario”
Seeking a new challenge, Jason Kloss took up his grandfather's old hobby: open-water swimming. Last week, Kloss raised over $55,000 for CAMH by attempting a 51-kilometre swim across Lake Ontario
City News
Winter surfing in Lake Ontario is brutal, painful and freezing. I can’t get enough
"Lake surfing is defined by disappointment and discomfort, freezing water and horrible weather, garbage waves and garbage floating in the waves. And yet it has become my greatest joy"
Life
I’ve slept in cardboard boxes, vans and trucks. Now I live with my three dogs in a 25-foot sailboat in Humber Bay
Last month, Tate Hill's neighbours in Mimico raised more than $11,000 to help him take care of his dogs and dock his boat in a marina
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City News
How a salvage crew took Captain John’s on one last voyage
Wayne Elliott wanted to give Captain John’s a dignified death. In his 40-year career, the senior salvage master with Marine...
City News
Gone in 60 Minutes: how to get from the office desk to the cottage dock in about an hour
Top down and open road used to be the best way to get to the cottage, but that was before highways became parking lots, crammed...
Real Estate News
A few wealthy Torontonians will soon be able to live in a bridge in the sky
Given the ubiquity of condo construction in Toronto, a new development is generally nothing to gawk at. That is, unless it...
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City News
On the Waterfront: five tempting lake- and riverside homes from $245,000 to $11.5 million
With the wall of condos dominating the shoreline, it’s easy to forget Toronto’s a town on the lake. Here are five irresistible...
City News
The idea of building more islands in Lake Ontario is still kicking around
Dirt: when you dig it up, it has to go somewhere. Aware of this inescapable truth, the city is still considering taking the 1.8...
City News
Q&A: Paul Godfrey, chair of the OLG, is on a mission to bring a Las Vegas–style casino to Toronto
You were a popular politician, brought the Blue Jays to town, resuscitated the National Post and cleaned up the OLG. Does the...
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City News
Rouge Valley gets $144 million to become Canada’s first national park in a city
As the federal government promised nearly a year ago, a massive stretch of the Rouge Valley will become Canada’s first urban...
Style
City council considers turning construction dirt into idyllic islands in Lake Ontario
Yesterday, the city’s public works committee heard a proposal to create a series of islands near the mouth of the Humber River...
City News
The last place to get a nice-sized home on a quiet, leafy street for less than $150,000 in the GTA—Twin Pines trailer park
On a bright morning in August , Judi Lloyd drove through Twin Pines with the air of a visiting dignitary. The preternaturally...
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City News
Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
City News
Doug Ford’s waterfront fantasy meets numbers and facts
The buzz-kills over at the Globe and Mail have thrown cold water all over Doug Ford’ s plans for the Port Lands. Chief among the...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2011: Seven ways to have a great time (bowling and bachelor parties included)
Ten-pin Queue Spot for a bachelor party Spot for a bridal party Yacht rental Saltwater dip Exercise craze Bathurst Bowlerama 2788...
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The Globe’s Marcus Gee reminds Toronto about that big body of water just to the south
As we mentioned last week during hotpocalypse, the Globe and Mail ’s Marcus Gee spent Thursday touring Toronto’s beaches and...
Real Estate News
Pier-less Burlington still waiting for its promised—but seemingly doomed—downtown waterfront attraction
Standing proof that mismanaged construction projects that drag on for years aren’t just the stuff of the 4-1-6, more than eight...
City News
50 Reasons To Love Toronto: No. 13, Sherbourne Common is changing the waterfront
For years, Toronto’s eastern waterfront has been a bit like Amy Winehouse—full of potential but deeply troubled and rife with...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $2.1 million for a Scarborough stunner overlooking Bluffers Park
ADDRESS : 27 Drake Crescent NEIGHBOURHOOD : Cliffcrest AGENT : Victoria Ann Ryczko, Coldwell Banker, R.M.R Real Estate, Brokerage...
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...
Real Estate News
House of the week: $3.9 million for a stone jewel perched on the Scarborough Bluffs
ADDRESS : 41 Hill Crescent NEIGHBOURHOOD : Cliffcrest-Guildwood AGENT : Ken C. Digalakis , Re/Max All-Stars Realty PRICE :...
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Home of the Week: $3.3 million for a tricked-out waterfront condo with eight-person hot tub
ADDRESS: 500 Queens Quay W. , Unit 601W NEIGHBOURHOOD: Waterfront Communities-The Island AGENT: Marie Kozak, Chestnut Park Real...
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Home of the week: $3.1 million for the model suite of the new Ritz-Carlton Hotel
ADDRESS: 181 Wellington Street West, Ste. 4901 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Waterfront Communities–The Island AGENT: Baker Real Estate...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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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
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative