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Toronto’s condo towers have become hotbeds of lawsuits, harassment and fistfights
Cranky empty nesters, party-loving hipsters and screaming babies are living cheek by jowl
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I responsible for damage caused by my neighbour’s tree?
"By the morning, a branch had broken off my neighbour’s tree and cracked my friend’s windshield"
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get my elderly neighbour to fix her rotting fence?
"Since she’s rather reclusive, it’s not as if we can casually chat about it"
Real Estate News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My chain-smoking neighbours are making it impossible to sell my house
"It’s their property, so we can’t ask them to leave for the day. Or can we?"
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Real Estate News
Does my neighbour owe me money for enhancing her townhouse’s curb appeal?
"When I presented her with a receipt for $2,000, she refused to pay"
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: what can I do about the never-ending porn shoot next door?
Dear Urban Diplomat, It seems the unit down the hall at my condo has become the world’s busiest porno set. There’s a steady...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: what do I have to do to get my neighbour to stop being such a butthead?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live and work just steps from Pape and Danforth. One of the business owners smokes on his stoop near the...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbours’ reno project is driving me crazy. How can I shut them up?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Our neighbours purchased a fixer-upper three years ago and have been working on it almost every evening and...
Real Estate News
Quoted: a Beach resident on the frustrations of living next to a cat hoarder
—Retiree Neil Downey, whose tidy semi on Beech Avenue adjoins a squalid property overrun with 30-odd cats, on the worries that...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour holds a yard sale every weekend. Is there anything I can do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My neighbour holds a yard sale every weekend. She prices everything way too high and won’t negotiate, like...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Our neighbours’ barbecue fills our backyard with unpleasant smoke. Can we complain?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I have new neighbours who love to barbecue, which is fine, except that it’s almost always...
Real Estate News
Suburban real estate adventures: Brampton monster homes and Scarborough rooming houses
A bungalow-heavy neighbourhood in Brampton is seething over a partially finished 6,600-square-foot house (which the Toronto Star...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: What should I do when my neighbour throws an obnoxiously loud house party?
Dear Urban Diplomat, A new couple on my block dropped by recently to introduce themselves. They said they were planning a...
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Real Estate News
Condos versus factories: five battlegrounds in Toronto’s re-zoning war
The clashing factions in Toronto’s condo fights used to be easy to identify: angry residents and ambitious developers. Now, the...
Real Estate News
Does one tall tower inevitably lead to more? Residents near U of T think so
The University of Toronto created a stir earlier this year when news surfaced about an agreement with Knightstone Capital...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour is a peeper. How do I make him stop?
Dear Urban Diplomat, The houses on my street are close together, and my kitchen looks directly into my neighbours’. I regularly...
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City News
The city is going after rogue garage sale vendors
Although gang activity has dominated the news of late, the city is cracking down on another type of criminal this...
City News
Cedarvale residents win their fight to keep public tennis courts open to the public
This spring, we wrote about a neighbourhood battle brewing over restricting access to city-owned tennis courts in Cedarvale Park...
City News
Police find three crystal meth labs in a Scarborough condo tower
Add meth-producing neighbours to the list of condo owners’ worries—police discovered three crystal meth labs in a Scarborough...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbours use our back alley for more than just access
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m sick and tired of my neighbours using the back alley like it’s an extension of their property. Their...
City News
A house in the Junction partially collapses, in the ultimate renovation nightmare
A lot of things can go wrong for a Toronto homeowner these days, but this really sucks: a house in the Junction partially...
City News
Home Free: the advantages of swapping your mortgage for a lease
After years of crushing mortgage payments and escalating maintenance costs, one homeowner sold her house and signed a lease on a...
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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...
Real Estate News
Condo backlash: St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association scorns a proposal for two tall towers
St. Lawrence’s residents, neighbourhood association and councillor are all rallying against several development proposals for...
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Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions