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Business group calls on customers to use debit and cash instead of credit cards

Business group calls on customers to use debit and cash instead of credit cards

Get out the smelling salts, people: it turns out that credit card companies are out to make a buck, and aren’t particularly kind...

Ed Ho pulls out of plans to open an Earth 2 restaurant in Mississauga

Ed Ho pulls out of plans to open an Earth 2 restaurant in Mississauga

After many months of demolition and construction, and many dollars spent, restaurateur Ed Ho (of Globe Bistro and Earth ) is...

International soft power survey: Monocle ranks Canada a lousy 12th

International soft power survey: Monocle ranks Canada a lousy 12th

Blame Air Canada, the CBC and Stephen Harper : the rest of the world just isn’t that in to us. The latest Monocle magazine has a...

Senate votes to kill Canada’s penny

Senate votes to kill Canada’s penny

The upper house of Parliament, apparently finished snuffing out climate change bills , has turned its eyes to a cause that warms...

It’s all about homeowners, even when it isn’t: rental market getting squeezed

Real Estate News

It’s all about homeowners, even when it isn’t: rental market getting squeezed

While the homebuying market continues to confuse us—is it time to buy or sell? Nobody knows!—the rental market seems to be a...

Lululemon makes lots of money, thanks to Oprah

Lululemon makes lots of money, thanks to Oprah

Canadian athletic wear powerhouse Lululemon saw its profits almost double in the third quarter of this year, thanks in part to the...

What else can we say: Oshawa man abandons city council seat to keep TTC gig

This story leaves us wondering just how cushy, exactly, the average TTC job really is. Apparently, nobody explained to Mike...

Another Tower Renewal report is out, but will Ford embrace a Miller initiative?

Real Estate News

Another Tower Renewal report is out, but will Ford embrace a Miller initiative?

All over Toronto are towers built between the end of World War II and the 1980s—and far too many are eyesores. One of David...

All-day kindergarten is incredibly popular, as long as we can find the cash for it

All-day kindergarten is incredibly popular, as long as we can find the cash for it

The Province of Ontario has been rolling out its all-day kindergarten program for a while now—first as a pilot project, and the...

Have the Ford Wars just begun? Council’s left is ready to fight for Transit City

With Rob Ford ’s announcement today that “Transit City is over, ladies and gentlemen,” it looks like the first big battle of...

Transit showdown brewing as rumours fly that Rob Ford will try to kill Transit City tomorrow

Despite some speculation that Rob Ford was going to make peace with Transit City after his election win, the National Post is...

Gold Wars: inside Toronto's cash-for-gold battle

Gold Wars: inside Toronto’s cash-for-gold battle

What happens when two gold buyers set up shop kitty-corner to each other in a rabidly competitive industry? A tale of death threats and gunshots in the night at Bathurst and Glencairn

University of Toronto ponders what to do about its $1.1-billion deficit

University of Toronto ponders what to do about its $1.1-billion deficit

The shockwaves of the 2008 recession are still travelling through the economy, even as countries struggle to get back on their...

Looking on the bright side: recession means GTA homes are more affordable

Real Estate News

Looking on the bright side: recession means GTA homes are more affordable

Some good news from the Royal Bank today: the ranks of Toronto’s house-poor may decline slightly, as homes in the GTA have...

Toronto is the saddest place in Canada: CSLS study

Toronto is the saddest place in Canada: CSLS study

According to a survey by the Canadian Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS), Toronto is the least-happy place in...

Finally, Tim Hortons gets debit terminals

Finally, Tim Hortons gets debit terminals

We’re pretty sure this is all the fault of latte-sipping downtown elites . First Starbucks announced that it was going to take...

A valuable lesson: if the G20 is coming to town, make sure you live in Muskoka

A valuable lesson: if the G20 is coming to town, make sure you live in Muskoka

If this keeps up, we're going to continue to take it personally. An analysis of the spending in Muskoka in the run-up to the G8...

$45-million tunnel to the Island Airport one step closer to reality

$45-million tunnel to the Island Airport one step closer to reality

The Island Airport is something this city hates to love—and boy, does Porter know it. Between the free cappuccinos and the...

Peer pressure works! The Sentimentalist publisher makes deal to print more copies

Boutique Nova Scotia publisher Gaspereau Press has come to an agreement with Vancouver publisher Douglas and McIntyre to print...

The story behind Weizhen Tang—Toronto’s Bernie Madoff

The story behind Weizhen Tang—Toronto’s Bernie Madoff

Weizhen Tang told his investors they deserved to be rich and only he could make them so. Even now, after he lost all their money and was charged with running one of the country’s largest Ponzi schemes, his disciples still want him to keep trading. They believe it’s the only way they’ll get their $30 million back

Public denied award-winning book by territorial East Coast publisher

Public denied award-winning book by territorial East Coast publisher

She's been a Giller winner for all of 36 hours, but already Johanna Skibsrud is at the centre of a controversy that has all of...

Monster jam: Jan Wong on the tear-down real estate trend in Lawrence Park

Monster jam: Jan Wong on the tear-down real estate trend in Lawrence Park

In my neighbourhood, century-old houses are being knocked down to make room for super-sized faux chateaux. Something is lost, and...

Toronto public school board catches $88,500 fraud without a huge scandal

Toronto public school board catches $88,500 fraud without a huge scandal

A we-assume-formerly respected principal, teacher and baseball coach from Martingrove Collegiate in Etobicoke has been charged...

On the chopping block: we put odds on which city-funded projects will survive Ford’s first term

On the chopping block: we put odds on which city-funded projects will survive Ford’s first term

One thing we know about Rob Ford is that he hates it when the city—pardon us, his city—spends money on things that the private...

Summer Camp Guide

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages

Wines of the World

Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from Toronto Life’s Best Restaurants

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

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

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

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

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

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

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

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

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

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

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

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

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

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

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

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

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

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

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

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

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

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

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

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

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

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

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

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

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

Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes

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!”

Just Listed

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

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

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

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

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

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

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

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