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Food & Drink
Introducing: The Big Fish, a new fish and chips shop on Queen West
Taking over the old Bon’s Submarine space at Queen just west of Spadina, the Big Fish is the first foray into western waters for...
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Food & Drink
One way to get farm-fresh eggs: become your neighbourhood’s egg kingpin
Alysa Golden knew what kind of eggs she was looking for—cruelty- and hormone-free—but she wasn’t having much luck finding...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in March
It can be hard to keep pace with all the new restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is why every month, we...
City News
Almost Rich: an examination of the true cost of city living and why rich is never rich enough
An income of $196,000 places you in the country’s top one per cent of earners. But does it make you wealthy? The Western world...
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Food & Drink
Must-Try: hot chocolate with sinfully good blowtorched marshmallows at Bobbette and Belle
Toboggans and cross-country skis, woolly sweaters and brisk sub-zero air call for piping hot chocolate. The Leslieville dessert...
Food & Drink
Nine members of Toronto’s backyard-chicken underground on the special bond between man and bird
On November 30, councillors Joe Mihevc and Mary-Margaret McMahon took on the considerable challenge of trying to overturn nearly...
Food & Drink
Rising rents on Queen East push out Red Rocket Coffee, which is moving to the Danforth instead
Leslieville’s Red Rocket Coffee has been forced to close up shop after its landlord doubled the rent to $49 per square...
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Food & Drink
With news of price hikes at Starbucks, we called around to see what indie shops are charging for their coffee
On Tuesday, the Toronto Star reported that Starbucks had raised its prices for coffee and other beverages across the country by...
City News
Urban Diplomat: Can we tell our neighbours to stop smoking—for the sake of our baby?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I have detected the smell of cigarette smoke coming through the shared wall of our...
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...
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Food & Drink
Eadrey Foods and Goods and Provisions: two upcoming Leslieville foodie spots from familiar faces
Blink, and it was gone. The Foodist Market , which itself had replaced the ill-fated juice bar Pulp Kitchen , opened and closed...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Le Canard Mort, the new Leslieville restaurant and cocktail bar from the people behind Le Rossignol
The beloved neighbourhood watering hole Barrio shuttered its French doors last summer, and hungry Leslievillers have been gazing...
City News
Check out BIXI Toronto’s 80 downtown bike locations on one interactive map
BIXI is slated to launch in Toronto on May 3 with 1,000 bikes spread out over 80 stations. While we’re all for bringing the...
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Food & Drink
Leslieville strikes oil: Montreal-based Olive and Olives to open up shop this spring
Leslieville’s recent boom in new gourmet food stores—including Foodist Market , Hooked and Sausage Partners —shows no signs...
Food & Drink
With Sausage Partners, Kyle Deming plans to contribute yet another chef-run fine food shop to the Leslieville strip
First there was the Leslieville Cheese Market , then the Foodist Market , then Hooked , and now Sausage Partners . Leslieville is...
Real Estate News
Mississauga freezes downtown development: opposing big-box retail is not just for Leslieville anymore
As Mississauga continues to deal with having few spaces left to develop, we’ve been fascinated to see how the politics of the...
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Food & Drink
The Foodist Market, a new organic grocer, takes over Pulp Kitchen’s space on Queen East
The Foodist Market , a new small grocery shop in Leslieville, has only been open for a few days, so it’s no surprise that many...
City News
The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
Food & Drink
The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious . The menus are less predictable than...
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Shopping
Sales roundup: friends and family sales at American Apparel and Restoration Hardware, plus a Lacoste warehouse sale
FASHION AND BEAUTY AMERICAN APPAREL Print out this flyer and get 20 per cent off your purchase. Until Nov. 14. Various GTA...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s 13 new cafés: board games, Bohème and a resurrected waffle house
These days, the arrival of a new indie café on Queen West or in Leslieville is about as novel as a Gap opening in a mall, which...
City News
Watch Leslieville residents chase anti-gay Bible thumpers from their street
Toronto offers so many engaging activities for a Sunday night in the summer. A person can go to the CNE, walk along the lake shore...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Crafted by Te Aro. I Deal Coffee gets some competition on Ossington
Ossington’s nightlife is alive and well, but the strip can be quite dead in daylight hours—there's I Deal Coffee...
Style
Just Opened: Avenue Road’s new Leslieville showroom
The place: For the Avenue Road team, 415 Eastern Avenue was a worthy fixer-upper. The store's previous showroom—a go-to spot for...
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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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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
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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
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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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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