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Editor’s Letter: How bike lanes became a scapegoat for all of Toronto’s traffic angst
Cycling infrastructure is intended to elevate a city from a place where the car is king to one where commuters have safe, healthy alternatives. So why, in Toronto, does it face such fierce opposition?
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Deep Dives
Train Wreck: The bone-rattling reality of Ontario Line construction
Toronto residents in the path of the Ontario Line are living in a foundation-cracking, rat-infested hellscape. True tales from the epicentre
Deep Dives
Who broke the TTC? Inside Toronto’s public transit disaster
Toronto used to have one of the best transit systems in North America. Now it’s overcrowded, underfunded, unreliable and dangerous—and it costs us $2.38 billion a year
City News
“Our city is addicted to cars”: This teen’s transit app rewards people for riding the TTC
Eighteen-year-old Zarif Ali says his program will incentivize commuters to take public transit, make doing so easier and rake in millions of dollars. He’s giving the TTC and Metrolinx a chance to buy in
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City News
Behind the scenes of an $11-billion subway war
The Ontario Line will plow through peaceful neighbourhoods, expropriate houses, displace businesses and create gridlock for years. Is it worth it?
Culture
What notable Torontonians are watching, reading and listening to this summer
Pop culture recommendations from Robbie Amell, Ginella Massa, Edward Burtynsky, Lesley Hampton, Daniel Faria, Grant van Gameren and more
City News
A new walkway at Union Station is causing delays and confusion—and commuters are really angry about it
Just when people thought they knew their way around...
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City News
Feast your eyes on a massive new park the city wants to build downtown
The rail corridor west of Union Station may be in for a greening
City News
Q&A: John Tory, one-year veteran of the mayor’s chair
The mayor on his shifting transit strategy and Toronto's fractious police force
Food & Drink
Union Station is getting rotisserie chicken, a Burger’s Priest, and a huge food market
Union Station is set to become a dining destination instead of an afterthought—no offence, Cinnabon. Not only are Mill Street...
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City News
Is the Union Pearson Express cushy enough to justify its $27 ticket price? What you’ll be shelling out for
If Metrolinx's fancy new Union Pearson Express works as advertised upon its expected launch later this year, its trains will whisk...
City News
A $27 train ride to the airport won’t ruin Toronto—but delaying building the transit we actually need will
Ultimately, it doesn't matter what Metrolinx charges people to ride the Union Pearson Express, Toronto's soon-to-be-completed...
City News
If John Tory is elected, will he really be able to build SmartTrack?
THE IDEA Since he unveiled it in late May, SmartTrack has been the centrepiece of John Tory ’s One Toronto transit...
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The demise of the depressing bus station at Dundas and Bay could be at hand
Tuesday's headlines about a planned new office-tower complex near Union Station tended to focus on the fancy elevated park and new...
City News
Gridlocked: How incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept Toronto stuck in traffic
The most egregious transit scandals in recent memory—and who’s to blame
City News
Q&A: Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig on political turmoil, public transit and his favourite rapper
Bruce McCuaig was hired to keep transit planning on track despite chronic indecision at city hall. So why is the TTC still trapped...
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Kathleen Wynne explains how she’ll pay for new transit in the GTA, except not really
During a speech earlier today for the Toronto Region Board of Trade, premier Kathleen Wynne slammed the opposition NDP and...
City News
Kathleen Wynne promises a magical mystery money source for public transit in Toronto
After announcing last week that her Liberal government is ruling out the possibility of using HST and gas-tax hikes to fund...
City News
Queen’s Park backs slowly away from transit-dedicated tax hikes
The provincial Liberal government has produced two reports (one from a blue-ribbon panel, and one from Metrolinx ) that recommend...
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GO train seats are about to get cushier, curvier and cleaner
GO trains aren't known for their thoughtful interior design. Odds are that nothing will ever change that, but it's nice that...
City News
Another day, another report on ways to pay for new public transit in Toronto
It's been quite a week for lengthy reports on the future of public transit in Toronto. Yesterday's 138-page analysis, written by a...
City News
Five things we learned from Michael Schabas’s critique of Toronto’s public-transit plans
Arguing about public transit has become a parlour game in Toronto, where every month seems to bring a new proposal for an...
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The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
City News
Philip Preville: Why Kathleen Wynne needs Rob Ford
If Kathleen Wynne is to achieve anything for Toronto—and transit is top of the list—she needs Rob Ford to knock around Back in...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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