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Toronto Life
’s top long-reads of 2024
A ranking of our most popular feature stories of the year
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Deep Dives
Toronto Life
’s top long-reads of 2023
A ranking of our most popular feature stories of the year
City News
The Sex Ed Revolution: A portrait of the powerful political bloc that’s waging war on Queen’s Park
Azeem Mohammed, a 38-year-old stay-at-home dad from East York, is the school council chair at Thorncliffe Park Public...
Real Estate News
The Tenant From Hell: How a serial fraudster took advantage of Toronto’s red-hot real estate market
Wilf Dinnick and Sonia Verma unwittingly rented their house to a con artist. What happened next is every homeowner's worst nightmare
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City News
The Double Life of Ben Levin: His depraved online world, and the sting that brought him down
Benjamin Levin dazzled everyone around him. He was the second of four brothers, born in 1952 to a warm, loving, staunch NDP family...
City News
Troublemaker: Why Jennifer Keesmaat may be exactly what Toronto needs right now
The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway runs for 18 kilometres. From the sky, it’s a snaking schism dividing the waterfront from...
City News
Jennifer Pan’s Revenge: The inside story of a golden child, the killers she hired, and the parents she wanted dead
Read this article in Mandarin Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was...
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City News
The Cult of Jian: His life as an outcast, who’s standing by him, and why he’s sure he’ll walk
Jian Ghomeshi and I first met in February of 1999. I was in my early 20s, and I’d just been hired as an arts reporter at the...
Life
The Bay Street Tinder Diaries: Dating in the age of the Internet hookup
Valerie met “The Suit” on Tinder. She called him that because he was the quintessential 30-something Bay Street...
City News
The Charming Mr. Elder
On any given morning, you might find Michael Elder at one of his favourite hangouts, Caffe Doria or Starbucks in Rosedale. Look...
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Life
The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black
The summer I was nine, my teenage cousin Sana came from England to visit my family in Oshawa. He was tall, handsome and...
City News
The Kink Club: inside the secret world of BDSM
Lord Morpheous, arguably Toronto’s reigning king of kink, lives in a downtown penthouse with a panoramic view of the...
City News
The Break-In Artist: The hunt for the cat burglar who terrorized Toronto’s wealthiest neighbourhoods
The Fort Knox of Thornhill is a stucco mansion with a mansard roof, front-yard fountain and U-shaped driveway on the area’s most...
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City News
The naked ambition of National Ballet artistic director Karen Kain
Beneath her poised veneer is an exacting perfectionist, a tenacious fundraiser and a total control freak. Which explains how she turned the floundering National Ballet of Canada into one of the world’s premiere arts organizations
City News
McMansion Wars: Inside the nasty neighbour-versus-neighbour feuds of Forest Hill
In the spring of 2009 , 212 Vesta Drive—a four-bedroom 1930s Tudor on a 40-foot-wide lot—went up for sale. It was a pretty...
City News
Puckheads: inside the crazed arenas of the GTHL
The world’s largest amateur hockey organization is also a breeding ground for unscrupulous coaches, raging parents and miserable...
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City News
The Yorkville Swindler: How Albert Allan Rosenberg scammed his way into high society
Looking back, it does seem unlikely that a Swiss billionaire baron would be seeking love on the Internet, but when Antoinette met...
City News
Gone Girl: I was a private school kid from Rosedale—until I ended up on the street
My parents gave me a great chance at life. I grew up in a three-bedroom house in Lawrence Park, where I spent weekends riding my...
City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014
It’s been a big year in the corridors of power, with an infusion of ambitious new leaders in the city’s most influential...
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Life
The Wattpad Cult: why Toronto’s buzziest tech start-up is a self-publishing app beloved by teen girls
Wattpad occupies three floors of a handsome Greek Revival building on the touristy stretch of Wellington East. The office, if you...
Life
The Bank of Mom and Dad: confessions of a propped up generation
It seems like every 30-something couple has an embarrassing financial secret: their boomer parents are covering their mortgages, child-care costs and other expenses
From the archives
The Man Who Would Be King: Inside the ruthless battle for control of the $34-billion Rogers empire
Edward Rogers expected to run the family empire after the death of his father, Ted. But the board squeezed him out
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City News
Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
City News
The Family That Won’t Leave
Every refugee story is different, but they all have a shared feature: the decisive moment a person realizes he or she can no...
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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
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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
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business