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City News
Risk Assessment: a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood guide to the safest places to buy real estate in Toronto
No neighbourhood will react the same way to a burst bubble. We talked to market watchers, economists, mortgage brokers and...
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City News
Bubble Trouble
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Our recovery from the Great Recession happened faster than expected, we got in the mood to...
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...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Queen Margherita Pizza
Don’t even say the L word—“ Libretto ”—to John Chetti, co-owner of Queen Margherita Pizza, Toronto's latest wood-oven...
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Style
Details magazine takes on Toronto, barely leaves 501 streetcar
Details magazine has named Toronto a mecca of “modern-art galleries, high-concept restaurants and fashion-forward boutiques,”...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s 14 new cafés: independent coffee shops continue citywide takeover
By our count, a whopping 22 new indie cafés opened in Toronto in 2009, but it looks like 2010 will be giving the java scene an...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: What Are You Looking At, an east-end bar with a west-end vibe
Israel Sanchez and Stephan Poquet looked around Leslieville and saw a neighbourhood that has plenty of places to grab a drink, but...
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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...
Food & Drink
Despite rumours, Mercury Espresso Bar is not closing
The papered-over windows of Mercury Espresso Bar prompted a rumour on on-line restaurant forum Chowhound Wednesday that the...
Food & Drink
Shucker Paddy turns his patio into skating rink
Patrick McMurray is getting into the Olympic spirit by flooding the front patio of his Leslieville restaurant The Ceili Cottage...
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Food & Drink
Lynn Crawford’s new Riverdale restaurant to open in March
Celebrity chef and Restaurant Makeover star Lynn Crawford' s much-anticipated Riverdale restaurant, located in The Citizen' s...
Style
Holy Cow brings globe-trotter style to Leslieville
Exotic decor and specialty gift boutique Holy Cow is the latest project for restaurateur Aristedes Pasparakis and womenswear...
Food & Drink
Twelve new indie cafés: Toronto’s thirst for coffee poured by hipsters proves unquenchable (for now)
As Starbucks attempts to boost profits with its instant coffee and Tim Hortons ’ profits tumble , Toronto’s indie café craze...
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Style
Summer of the bike: eight cyclists who ride in style
Remember those “I survived Toronto” T-shirts from summer 2003? The checklist on them read: SARS, West Nile, Mad Cow, SARS...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Steeped and Infused
“Do you follow astrology?” says Jennifer Best the minute she greets us at her new tea shop, Steeped and Infused. “Because...
Style
The Leslieville Guide: 26 essential destinations for shopping, eating and drinking
This east-end neighbourhood is constantly being labelled “the next big thing.” Yet it’s been seven years since Edward...
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Food & Drink
The Leslieville Guide: 26 essential destinations for shopping, eating and drinking
This east-end neighbourhood is constantly being labelled “the next big thing.” Yet it’s been seven years since Edward...
Food & Drink
Jolt of caffeine: 13 new independent cafés open in Toronto
While McDonald’s , Tim Hortons and Starbucks duke it out across North America in their giveaway coffee war, a new batch of...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Ceili Cottage
“We did this totally back-asswards,” says Patrick McMurray of Ceili Cottage , the Irish pub he opened in Leslieville, and the...
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Shopping
Sales roundup: Designer sales at Holt Renfrew, Carte Blanche, Delphic and Buckler
FASHION 889 YONGE The retail portion of this holistic spa-yoga studio is having a “secret sale”: mention those two words at...
Food & Drink
More recession-struck boîtes go belly up
Although the stock exchange is out of meltdown mode, restaurants are still suffering the aftershocks of recession. We’ve already...
Food & Drink
Open season: A look at some of the city’s best patios
This past weekend proved that double-digit temperatures are all Torontonians need to get patio season going. We checked out some...
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RIP, recession-struck restaurants
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Toronto’s hidden brunch gems
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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!”
Just Listed
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment