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Memoir: Michael Redhill on becoming a full-blown hockey dad
As a kid, I never got into organized sport. Today, I’m schlepping my sons through pre-dawn blizzards to far-flung corners of...
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Memoir: when my husband and I defected from North Korea, we made the biggest sacrifice of all
I met my husband, Oh-jooyean, in 1996, while working in a market near my hometown of Yonan, North Korea. I was 22 years old; he...
City News
A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is...
City News
Memoir: when I moved away from my overprotective parents at age 17, I was primed for trouble
I grew up in sleepy, suburban Calgary. My parents are conservative, first-generation immigrants from...
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Memoir: when my deadbeat dad had a stroke, I finally learned how to forgive him
In the spring of 2006, I sat in a padded metal chair and watched my 63-year-old father wake up from a Demerol sleep. He was lying...
City News
Memoir: an ulcerative colitis sufferer learns that diagnoses, like illnesses, are never straightforward
It began in 2002 when my partner, Blair, and I were sitting at a booth in a Toronto emergency room, singing a ridiculous song...
City News
Memoir: art and autism, lessons from my sister
I thought a creative collaboration with my sister would help draw her out of her autism. I didn’t expect it to change something...
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Michael Bryant releases his tell-all book about drinking binges and the worst night of his life
Last October, former Ontario attorney general—and Toronto Life cover boy— Michael Bryant announced he was writing a memoir...
City News
Memoir: Jan Wong’s search for the right antidepressant
Even with sedatives, I couldn’t sleep. I kept losing weight. I was crying every day. One night, I lost my temper with my son...
City News
Memoir: there’s nothing like a shared near-death experience to bring you closer to the neighbours
I work from home, which is a semi-detached Edwardian off Queen West. When my family leaves in the morning, I settle into my office...
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Memoir: Aruna Papp reflects on the abuse she suffered at the hands of men
I never questioned the abuse I suffered from my father and husband, nor did I have any reason to think life had treated me...
City News
Conrad Black’s getting out of jail, but he may not be able to move back to Toronto
America’s haughtiest jailbird, Conrad Black , is getting out of the slammer this weekend—and thinking longingly of...
City News
Memoir: two young protesters find love among the tents at Occupy Toronto
I’m a 28-year-old film editor, and I don’t want for much. I live in a spacious apartment on a quiet street off Queen West. I...
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Memoir: I’m usually loyal to a fault—so why do I always betray my hairdressers?
It’s time I faced the truth about my philandering ways Janet opens the door to her house, already wearing her powdery white...
Style
Weddings 2012: Jesse Brown’s story of 21st-century matchmaking (offline)
We were set up by my friend Sheila, who didn’t think it was wise for me to make romantic decisions for myself...
City News
Memoir: a high-stakes war adventure in Afghanistan is hard to replicate in peace-loving Toronto
For the last 10 years, I’ve been a reservist with the Queen’s York Rangers, a Toronto-based army unit. After basic...
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Memoir: in the online gaming world, I was a champion; in real life, I was a mess
I’m an IT manager . And an occasional photographer. Sometimes an aspiring writer. I’m also a city planner, a weapons...
City News
Muslim Canadian Congress Founder Tarek Fatah on being both a cancer patient and a survivor
In my life, I’d been run over by a car and survived two jail terms as a political prisoner. If cancer was going to kill me, I was at least going to have the last laugh
City News
Memoir: How a 59-year-old neuroscientist and university professor fell prey to opiates—again
My family and I moved to the Netherlands from Toronto in the summer of 2010. I’d been a psychology professor at the University...
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My Digital Sabbath: how one writer learned to stop checking Facebook and love life offline
I can’t say specifically which fabulous new technology made me decide I needed a break from all fabulous new technologies. For...
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Wednesday’s Luminato Picks: Ron Sexsmith, Joyce Carol Oates and the Kronos Quartet
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes all through the...
City News
One hundred and eighteen days: the harrowing tale of James Loney, a Toronto man kidnapped in Iraq
Of the many humiliations James Loney suffered during his terrifying captivity in Baghdad, the worst was his kidnappers’...
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Memoir: my son was a leader, in life and in death
On a warm night last August, some 2,000 teenagers gathered for an end-of-summer party at Woodbine Beach. My 17-year-old...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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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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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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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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