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Memoir: I was terrified of having my son circumcised
My son was born last spring— a jarring six weeks early, after more hours of labour than I care to remember. At six pounds, three...
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Memoir: I was friends with my dad—until I found out he was secretly dating my mom
I grew up the product of a no-strings arrangement: in 1986, my mom found herself single, in her mid-30s and wanting to have a...
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Memoir: I was on the verge of making it big in hockey, and then a concussion ended it all
Hockey was my life from age five. By the time I was 12, I practised a couple of hours a day and played up to three games a...
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Memoir: I couldn’t shake the abuse and despair I saw on a First Nations reserve
In 2010, I spent four months researching a book in Kashechewan, a troubled First Nation on James Bay with a population of...
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Memoir: growing a few pot plants in the basement seemed like a great idea—until I got busted
On the evening of July 25, 2007, I was trimming the drooping branches of the weeping mulberry tree in the garden of my house in a...
City News
Memoir: no doctor could diagnose my strange affliction—so I did it myself
In my late 20s, I became crippled with debilitating dizziness and headaches. I visited eight doctors—and no one could figure out...
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Memoir: my ex-husband wanted us to co-parent with his new girlfriend
When my ex told me he wanted his new girlfriend to help raise our son, I felt like strangling him. I didn’t realize that...
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Memoir: when I woke up from surgery, I looked like an entirely different person
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Memoir: for decades, I made my living as a poet. Then I was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s—and found myself at a loss for words
I don’t remember exactly when I stopped remembering. For years, I’d find myself pausing in the middle of sentences, unable to...
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Memoir: a group of street thugs became my surrogate family—until one of them betrayed me
I grew up in the Vineways, a townhouse in Willowdale populated largely by immigrant and working-class families. It was a...
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Memoir: having a baby was the easiest decision I ever made. Finding the right sperm donor wasn’t quite so simple
Five years ago, my partner, Vanessa, and I decided to start a family. I’d always envisioned being a parent, but never imagined...
City News
Memoir: over the years, my apartment has been made a home by many crazy roommates
I came to Toronto on my own and rented a drafty, rodent-infested three-bedroom. Over the years, the people I've shared it with has...
City News
Memoir: after my mother died, I spent 16 months clearing out her home—and remembered who she really was
I thought my mother would never die. I’m a compassionate person, but 20 years of eldercare had leached me of patience. Dad’s...
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Memoir: I was once a high-powered TV producer. Now, I live below the poverty line in a 50-square-foot apartment
In the early ’90s, at the height of my career in sports journalism, I produced television coverage for Formula One motor racing...
City News
Memoir: I came out to my Muslim family after a decade of silence—and the fallout was brutal
Coming out is like cliff jumping. The longer you wait to take the plunge, the more time you have to envision your guts rising to...
City News
Memoir: boxing champ George Chuvalo describes his family’s heartbreaking battle with heroin
When I was a heavyweight champ, I was on top of the world. I had no idea my sons were shooting heroin in the basement As a...
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Memoir: I gave up my private medical practice to treat the addicts and thieves in a women’s prison
When I opened my North York private practice in 1976, I harboured all sorts of idealistic notions about what it meant to be a...
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Memoir: a notorious Upper Canada College teacher ruined my life
Almost 40 years ago, Doug Brown repeatedly sexually assaulted me. Only now do I understand how profoundly he marked my life I was...
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Memoir: what I learned from working the graveyard shift at the Rogers Centre
On my first night, I picked up a beer-soaked five-dollar bill and shoved it into my pocket. Some of my co-workers were high; some...
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Memoir: I thought my husband’s alcoholism was behind us—until he and our marriage spiralled out of control
When Andrew and I met five years ago in Yellowknife, we clashed immediately: I thought he was an obnoxious party boy; he thought I...
City News
Memoir: after years in denial, I finally worked up the courage to switch genders
In my earliest memory, I am four and it’s bath time. I see my brother’s penis and turn to my mother to ask where mine is. She...
City News
Memoir: how I put an end to my extended adolescence
When I became a father, I decided it was time to make the long-delayed leap into adulthood. The best way to be a grown-up, I...
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Memoir: why one anti-marriage crusader decided to take the plunge
In the early weeks of 2005, I attended a tsunami relief fundraiser at a vegetarian co-op in the Annex, where I met a cute guy...
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Memoir: after five years as a labourer, I learned how hard it is to climb into the middle class
I was born in communist Poland and arrived in Canada when I was 12 years old. My parents came for the opportunities, the hope that...
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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
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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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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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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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