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Food & Drink
Gordon Ramsay’s inauspicious Montreal launch
Last year, Toronto diners lamented the decision of U.K. mega-celebrity-chef-cum-ball-of-rage Gordon Ramsay to launch his first...
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City News
Rob Ford’s mysterious meeting schedule released only to reveal something everybody already knew anyway
The recent release of a copy of Mayor Rob Ford’ s meeting schedule confirmed something we—and everybody else—already...
Real Estate News
Vancouver’s real estate prices drop—will Toronto’s be next?
With repeat warnings that Toronto, like Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary and other Canadian cities, may (emphasis on may) be trapped...
City News
Recent fact-checking spree reveals that no, Etobicoke doesn’t have more libraries than Timmies, contra Doug Ford
We suspect that “fact-checking the Fords” will be a growth industry for city hall watchers, especially after Ed Keenan ’s...
City News
In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him
In the ’60s, McLuhan was hobnobbing with celebrities, advising politicians and forever changing how we think about mass media. A...
Sunday’s NXNE picks: The Pharcyde, Paul Quarrington, William S. Burroughs and more
We’ve managed to keep our wits about us and our energy up all week in order to maximize our concert attendance, but we have to...
Saturday’s NXNE picks: Handsome Furs, Memoryhouse, Chad VanGaalen and more
Tonight is the unofficial last hurrah for the North by Northeast faithful—and that means it’s going to be a good one. The bars...
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Food & Drink
Friday’s NXNE picks: Dirty Beaches, Land of Talk, Writer and more
This year’s North by Northeast features 650 bands, the bulk of which are playing Friday and Saturday night. Needless to...
Food & Drink
Thursday’s NXNE picks: Evening Hymns, The Luyas, Deerhoof and more
We’re still reeling from last night’s indie music extravaganza, so we’re going to let the good times keep rolling and offer...
Wednesday’s NXNE picks: Pat Jordache, Library Voices, We Are Wolves and more
For NXNE wristband holders and general music enthusiasts alike, today is the day. More specifically, it’s Wednesday, and more...
Tuesday’s NXNE picks: The Antlers, Nu Music Nite and the Disposable Film Festival
North by Northeast is, first and foremost, a music festival, so it gives us great pleasure to present our first concert picks on...
City News
Why the proposed “merger” between the TMX and the London Stock Exchange is bad news for Bay Street
One morning in late January, 1998, the Bank of Montreal CEO Matthew Barrett and Royal Bank chief John Cleghorn paid a visit to the...
Food & Drink
City’s average burger price plummets with closure of M:brgr’s King West location
On Tuesday, we heard through the grapevine from Montreal food journalist Lesley Chesterman that the Toronto location of M:brgr...
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Food & Drink
Flavour of the month: three new spots that change the game on sports bars
Sports bars in Toronto used to mean soggy nachos, face-painted guys named Big Mickey and eau de bleach mixed with stale...
City News
Check out BIXI Toronto’s 80 downtown bike locations on one interactive map
BIXI is slated to launch in Toronto on May 3 with 1,000 bikes spread out over 80 stations. While we’re all for bringing the...
City News
Remember that high-speed train from Windsor to Montreal? Here’s where the federal leaders stand on it
Finally, transit infrastructure has made it into the federal election news cycle. NDP leader Jack Layton was in Quebec...
Food & Drink
Leslieville strikes oil: Montreal-based Olive and Olives to open up shop this spring
Leslieville’s recent boom in new gourmet food stores—including Foodist Market , Hooked and Sausage Partners —shows no signs...
Food & Drink
Chuck Hughes becomes the first Canadian chef to beat Bobby Flay on Iron Chef
Chuck Hughes, chef at Montreal restaurant Garde Manger , won Iron Chef America this past weekend, succeeding where few competitors...
City News
Canada’s big-city mayors have a wish list for Ottawa—except for Rob Ford
With the budget coming next week from the federal government, one big question is whether, or what, Ottawa will has in store for...
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Real Estate News
BMO: Canada real estate market heading for bubble—but not Toronto
A new report out from BMO Capital Markets suggests that Canada is in increasing danger of a housing price collapse—especially if...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Primal Grind, a sugar- and dairy-free café in a crossfit gym (no, really)
Toronto’s independent coffee scene has boomed in the past year. With that rapid growth has come new levels of coffee...
Culture
Canadian cities becoming pop music powerhouses: Richard Florida
Canada is getting lots of celebrity love these days: Paul Giamatti saluted our home and native land at the Golden Globes, while...
City News
TMX-LSE merger gets cold shoulders from Ontario, Quebec and Ottawa
The heat of excitement that greeted the merger of the Toronto and London stock exchanges has met with a stiff, cold winter...
City News
Violence-crazed Toronto sells out the 55,000-seat Rogers Centre UFC event in 48 hours
Montreal may have gotten the prime-time shout-out in last night’s Grammy Awards Arcade Fire speech , but Toronto can still lord...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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
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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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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