Long Reads

A new generation of parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids

The rich and powerful want to keep their pretty rural getaway for themselves. The suburban developer Benny Marotta had other...

Just before midnight on July 26, 2013, Sammy Yatim boarded a westbound Dundas streetcar and made his way to the back. He was...

met Ian Borbely at a mutual friend’s party in 2003. They came from different worlds. She was 25 and striking, with long black...

David Mirvish wants to dismantle his famous father’s empire to build two giant Frank Gehry towers and a gallery for his personal...

In early fall 2013, my husband, Andrew, and I joined a popular CrossFit gym in the city’s east end. Our first class consisted of...

In a city where space is at a premium, tiny condos are the new family home. Learning to survive in 700 square feet

John Greyson is the quintessential loud-and-proud gay activist—earnest, ardent and perpetually revved up about one cause or...

When hip-hop and NBA stars want a good time, they call party queen Mona Halem. Inside a decadent world of $700 champagne, secret guest lists and hordes of beautiful women

Elaine Lui became one of the world’s most influential celebrity gossips by exhibiting a bratty disregard for the pieties of showbiz. What happens now that she’s nearly as famous as the stars she skewers?

The corporate insider Nigel Wright engineered Stephen Harper’s rise to prime minister and became his closest confidant. As chief of staff, he acted as a conduit between Bay Street and the PMO—until Harper thought he could make the Senate scandal go away by cutting Wright loose

Toronto’s surrogacy industry is booming and lucrative and at least partly illegal. Prospective parents, desperate to start a...

Jian Ghomeshi’s climb to the top of the CBC required plenty of ambition, glad-handing, star-chasing, stubble maintenance and...

Brian Shin seemed like the ideal employee. He worked long hours, dressed sharply and exuded sufficient swagger to fit in on Bay...

An investigation into how Toronto became a vermin breeding ground

In a way, David Cronenberg put me in the hospital. Last January, I attended a screening of a documentary by the filmmaker Ric...

Now that more women are high powered and high earning, their husbands are choosing to quit work and raise the kids. An inside look...

A growing movement of Torontonians barter for dinner, a haircut, a night at a hotel, you name it. They aren’t necessarily...

When a video game player loads NBA 2K13, say, or Madden NFL on his Xbox, he’s invited to join a social media platform where he...

Last January 19, around 10:15 p.m., a man walked into the Love Shop, an erotica store in downtown Hamilton. He approached the...

Reality television is booming in Toronto; nearly 100 shows are made here every year—some of them drawing more viewers than (gasp) hockey. Call it an affront to good taste or appointment TV, it’s the future of Canadian entertainment

When the prestigious private school expelled a 12th grader named Gautam Setia for lighting a bong in his dorm on the night before...

Linwood Barclay’s thrillers have been translated into 40 languages and published in 30 countries, making him a...

Two years ago, on a family vacation in Mustique, Christine McCain told her husband that she wanted out of their marriage. Michael...