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Life
Therapy didn’t help my anxiety, so I turned to psychedelics and found more answers than I expected
"As the DMT hit my lungs, I passed out. Later, I realized I’d been sobbing the entire time"
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Life
My son was born healthy, happy and perfectly pink. Three days later, he was fighting for his life
“The doctor told us that if we wanted to get our baby baptized, we should do it soon”
Life
My mom was on welfare, my dad was a hippie, and my grandparents were two of the richest people in Toronto
A memoir about growing up on both sides of the tracks
Life
The Orthodox Jew who became a gender-reassignment surgeon
As an Orthodox Jew, I was always taught to fear sexuality. Then I discovered my calling
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Life
I raised a chicken in my backyard. I loved the fresh eggs, but I hated that bird
“When I crouched beside her Eglu to stare into her beady little eyes, there was no warmth or affection”
Life
I lost my job, my home and my marriage to heroin
A Toronto mom’s addiction memoir
Life
My husband and I adopted a baby with Down syndrome. Now we can’t imagine our lives without him
"People think we're saints or fools"
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Life
After two years, $10,000 and hundreds of attempts to cure my rescue dog’s severe separation anxiety, I had to give her up
It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done
Life
I spent 919 days in a North Korean prison
I endured crippling isolation, hard labour and the daily threat of execution. This is how I survived
Life
When I came home from Afghanistan, my PTSD almost killed me. Then I discovered the magic of cannabis
I finally felt like myself again
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Life
I spent my first year as a doctor in a rural ER. It was the most exciting job I ever had
At first, I woke up every day with a sense of dread. What if someone died in front of me?
Life
“I’m 99 per cent certain I am your daughter”
When I hired a private detective to find my birth parents, I discovered I had seven siblings, two uncles, four cousins and four grandparents, plus a mom and a dad, all alive
Life
I was a teenager when my father was shot during a robbery gone wrong. Thirty years later, I befriended his murderer
Glen wasn’t just my dad’s killer. He was a father, a husband, a man living with an unspeakable mistake
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Life
I never learned to read properly in school. It wasn’t until I went to prison that I realized what I was missing
Now I'm a bookworm, and I'm helping to teach my kids
Life
My mid-life adventures in the sometimes great, often gross, always weird world of online dating
"One day my phone pinged with a photo—something beige and gnarled, some kind of root vegetable? Nope. It was a penis."
Life
When I moved to a retirement home in my 80s, I found true love
"I felt butterflies that hadn’t been there in 60 years"
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Life
I was forced to sell my body to strangers for a decade
Inside the secret world of sex trafficking
Life
When I broke my back, I knew I’d never walk again. That didn’t mean I couldn’t race
"I figured that if I could do an Ironman, I could do anything."
Life
I always thought of pot as a fun, harmless distraction—until I realized I couldn’t live without it
"I’d savour the spliffs until they singed my lips, until my body went from hard spaghetti to cooked noodles"
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Life
I left my kids in the Philippines to work as a nanny in Toronto
"I knew the children I babysat, but not my own"
Life
We planned to adopt a toddler, but ended up with a 17-year-old
"I thought, 'This could be our daughter'"
Life
I was forced to marry a stranger when I was 16. Ten years later, I made my escape
I was isolated, humiliated and assaulted. The whole time, I was planning my escape
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Life
When I was thrown into a Cuban prison for flying my drone, I thought I’d never see my family again
A sunny vacation morphs into an international incident
Life
I came to Canada as a refugee. When I heard Syrians needed help, I couldn’t refuse
A Yemeni-Canadian medical student opens his home to some new arrivals
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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