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City News
This piano teacher and wedding musician makes $170,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“Loblaws is ridiculously expensive. I avoid it completely”
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City News
Toronto Life
’s most-read Q&As of 2024
Including conversations with a cottage country guru, Toronto’s Swiftie army, the city’s traffic czar and the legendary Vince Carter
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Food & Drink
“One woman emptied her cart and drove straight here”: This Toronto grocer sells some items for 50 per cent less than Loblaws
Angela Donnelly, the co-owner of Leslieville’s Raise the Root, recently started posting price comparisons on Instagram
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City News
“Galen Weston is the poster boy for excess”: This economist blames supermarkets for astronomical food prices
Jim Stanford explains why corporate greed—not supply chain problems or inflation—is the reason for skyrocketing grocery bills
City News
I worked as a Loblaws cashier at the height of the pandemic. It didn’t go well
"The soap dispenser in the men’s employee washroom ran out in my second week, and remained empty, despite requests to fill it, for all of May and the better part of June"
Food & Drink
Inside the kitchen of Stuart Cameron, executive chef of Byblos, Patria and the brand-new Mira
A few of the things it's stocked with: pisco, chorizo, frozen pizza and Vegemite
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Life
“We support our neighbours”: Shoppers and business owners talk about Kensington Market’s new Loblaws
Will a new supermarket spell doom for the neighbourhood's small grocers, as many have predicted?
Food & Drink
Craft beer hits Ontario grocery store shelves
And here's where you can find it
Food & Drink
Momofuku’s David Chang launches President’s Choice’s pop-up shop
PC's new Insiders Collection Boutique on King West is free-sample heaven
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Real Estate News
Here’s what developers want to do to the abandoned Loblaws warehouse at Bathurst and Lake Shore
What it is: West Block, a new development on a mostly disused 3.5-acre chunk of land just south of the Gardiner Expressway and...
Food & Drink
Top Five: the best local cheeses available in Toronto
Our favourite stinky, small-batch works of art Margaret Peters of Glengarry Fine Cheese makes Lankaaster, a firm, buttery...
Food & Drink
Loblaws drive-thru, coming soon to Richmond Hill
This new service from Loblaws targets a very specific kind of lazy person—the kind who doesn't mind driving to the grocery...
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City News
For the love of Kensington
The weird, wonderful market at the heart of the city withstood every threat of redevelopment. Then Loblaws and Walmart came...
Culture
Recipe to Riches
Recap and Taste Test: episode 2, Jammin’ Jamaican Lobster Bisque
Category: Entrées Winning Dish: Afghanistan vet Winslow Taylor’s Jammin’ Jamaican Lobster Bisque Runner-Up Dishes: Melissa...
Food & Drink
Loblaws is officially moving into Kensington Market
The worst fears of Kensington Market ’s cadre of anti-corporate activists are about to come true: Tribute Communities , a...
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City News
Grocery gift cards for storm victims have gone from feel-good story to political liability
The provincial government’s grocery gift cards for ice-storm victims should have been a feel-good story. Government and private...
Food & Drink
UPDATE: Where to get free grocery-store gift cards for those who lost food during the ice storm
Here’s some news you can use if you were without power for several days and the inside of your fridge looks like an abandoned...
Food & Drink
Re-Introducing: Loblaws on St. Clair West, which now has a sushi bar, a dedicated cupcake wall and a dry-aged beef locker
Name: Loblaws Contact Info: 396 St. Clair Ave. W., loblaws.ca, @loblawsON Neighbourhood: Casa Loma Owner: Loblaws Companies...
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City News
Loblaw is buying Shoppers Drug Mart for $12.4 billion
Loblaw Companies announced this morning that it’s buying Shoppers Drug Mart, a high-stakes move that should help it compete with...
City News
The threat of a big-box development is still alive in Kensington Market—but so is Casa Acoreana
The developer hoping to build a big-box development on the western edge of Kensington Market isn’t giving up. After both the...
City News
Q&A: doc filmmaker Rob Stewart, of
Sharkwater
fame, on his plan to save the world
In Revolution , the globe-trotting, shirt-doffing filmmaker behind the save-the-fish documentary Sharkwater, turns his attention...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed, episode 7: Montreal Deli Style Dip
Last night’s episode, the final one before viewers get to choose the best of the best (voting runs December 5 to 7), was...
Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed, episode 2: Chipotle Chili Slams
This episode’s opening minutes made us anxious. No, the show’s producers didn’t do anything crazy, like adding a fourth...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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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