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Ontario Place will remain a casino-free zone, thanks in part to John Tory
So far, much of the Toronto casino chatter has focused on which locations are preferred by the Las Vegas heavies, but it’s worth...
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City-bound: Markham has finally outgrown its “town” status
A shout-out to the Town of Markham, which will finally become a city on July 1. (Since Markham has about 310,000 residents, the...
City News
Rouge Valley gets $144 million to become Canada’s first national park in a city
As the federal government promised nearly a year ago, a massive stretch of the Rouge Valley will become Canada’s first urban...
City News
A lot of casino questions (and few answers) at Rob Ford’s executive meeting
MGM and Caesars Entertainment may already be scoping out Toronto as a potential site for a massive resort casino (and have...
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City News
Find out how far you’ll have to schlep to watch the Pan Am Games in Toronto
Since council freaked out over the rising price tag of the 2015 Pan Am Games—because mega sporting events usually come in under...
City News
Markham will build a massive arena (which, of course, has nothing to do with getting an NHL team)
Late last night, Markham council decided to move ahead with plans for a colossal arena in a meeting with several digs aimed...
City News
QUOTED: Giorgio Mammoliti thinks unemployed single moms should become dealers
— Giorgio Mammoliti, explaining how single moms could win big by becoming card dealers if Toronto had a casino. Appearing on Rob...
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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...
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Apparently, Markham and other Toronto suburbs are stealing downtown’s “mojo”
The Grid has some upsetting news for all the latte-sipping, bicycle-riding, downtown pinkos who are pining for more “urbanist”...
City News
How bullying became the crisis of a generation
Kids are committing suicide, parents are in a panic, and schools that neglect to protect students are lawsuit targets Mitchell...
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Real Estate News
Condomonium: $2 million for a roomy apartment in Thornhill’s amenity-rich Avignon
ADDRESS: 7071 Bayview Avenue, unit 508 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Thornhill AGENT: Jerry Hammond, RE/MAX Ultimate Realty Inc. PRICE:...
Real Estate News
The Chase: A Markham couple races against time to find a house for their growing family
The Buyers: Dan Carmichael, a 39-year-old account executive for Dell Computers, and Dawn Carmichael, a 36-year-old medical...
City News
Markham voting study suggests more people vote when voting is easy (as in, voting from your living room easy)
Markham has made voting in municipal elections as easy as indicating your preference for hockey over politics, an experiment that...
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Behind the Scenes: at MAC cosmetics’ factory headquarters in, um, Markham, Ontario
We recently had the opportunity to take a party bus to MAC headquarters (all the way up the 404), where, as some people may find...
City News
Eight new electric car charging stations open around the G.T.A., as Ontario slowly, slowly moves towards a gas-free future
As oil goes back over $100 per barrel and GTA commuters face higher gas prices, electric cars—a.k.a. “EVs” for “electric...
City News
New interactive map shows which baby names are popular in all of Toronto’s neighbourhoods
What’s in a name? Apparently, quite a bit. A new interactive map by Toronto’s master of geo-data, Patrick Cain —he’s the...
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Pan Am fun begins early as costs double and city council freaks out
Toronto was pretty excited about winning the competition to host the 2015 Pan American Games , and why not? It wasn’t the...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: we review Sushi Couture, Niwatei and Bar Salumi
A new sushi king on Bloor, carb-loading in Markham and Parkdale’s chicest snack spot Sushi Couture 456 Bloor...
City News
The app kings: meet the army of tech genius millionaires who are turning Toronto into the new Silicon Valley
Why bother with a boring office job when you can share code at networking parties, design games for smartphones and sell your idea...
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Real Estate News
House of the week: $9.38 million for a mini-Brideshead in Markham
ADDRESS: 20 Steele Valley Road NEIGHBOURHOOD: Markham AGENT: Jerry Hammond , Re/Max Ultimate Realty Inc. PRICE: $9,380,000 THE...
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Best of the City 2010: tailors, exterminators and 13 other top helpers
grill-Cleaning Service The BBQ Guys 1-877-781-2277 There are few summer chores more unpleasant than cleaning the...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Summerlicious begins, Metric performs and six other weekend must-dos
1. SUMMERLICIOUS Some of the 150 restaurants participating in this annual prix fixe festival have probably been fully booked since...
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City News
Dawson’s Creek reunion? Michelle Williams and Katie Holmes spotted in GTA
Last week, the pixie perfect Michelle Williams unleashed her inner downward dog at Yoga Space on Ossington, and yesterday a...
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...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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’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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
Just Listed
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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
Guelph is having a moment
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For Sale: 112 Mildenhall Rd
A rare opportunity to own a custom-built masterpiece in the heart of Lawrence Park beautifully designed by Gray Smith and Arca Design for the most discerning buyer