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Philip Preville: The case for making bike helmets mandatory
Driving without a seat belt is considered absurdly reckless. Why isn’t cycling without a helmet? Any cyclist who’s ever been...
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Food & Drink
Queen’s Park takes a cue from Ottawa, demurs on fast-food calorie labels
We’ve mentioned from time to time the Canadian government’s curious efforts to keep us all eating plenty of salt. A weekend...
Food & Drink
Environmentalism vs. health throwdown: two Girl Scouts launch petition against cookies made with palm oil
This story has all the right ingredients for a made-for-TV movie: multinational food producers, the war on trans fats, a dash of...
City News
Cancer rates lower in Toronto than in the rest of Ontario: CCO
Cancer Care Ontario has released data suggesting that people in the GTA are dying of cancer at a rate less frequent than the...
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Food & Drink
MPP Rosario Marchese floats private member’s bill destined to make Doug Ford very, very angry
Only days after the City of Toronto voted not to further restrict the sale of sugary pop through vending machines on city...
Food & Drink
Battle of the bulge: committee to debate ban on pop sales at city-owned facilities
Toronto’s Government Management Committee is going to debate whether or not to allow the sales of obesity-abetting pop on city...
Food & Drink
Study: Junk food contributes to dumbening in children
It’s no shocker that eating junk food can cause obesity, especially in children. But a new British study shows that it can also...
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Food & Drink
Ottawa disbands salt task force, industry licks lips in anticipation
For years, it’s been evident that Canadians are consuming too much salt . In response to public pressure, and growing unease...
Food & Drink
The world’s 10 fattest countries: Canada is out, Palau is in
Despite the recent proliferation of poutine in this country, Canada has been left off the list of the fattest nations of 2010...
Food & Drink
Canadians are fat, even by rich-people standards
In the past few years, Toronto has been overrun by gourmet dining options of the fattening variety. Whether they're serving...
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City News
Wait—street hockey is illegal in Toronto? No wonder our kids are fat
Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett was at Yonge and Dundas when Sidney Crosby scored the gold-medal goal for Canada back in...
Food & Drink
New opera scams kids into healthy eating
Terror related to the childhood obesity epidemic has infected almost all media— radio , TV, newspapers , the Internet —but...
Food & Drink
Junk food and cocaine pretty much the same thing: study
Science is perfecting the art of proving the patently obvious. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience recounts how lab rats...
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Food & Drink
As health problems pile up, Toronto creates a new urban food strategy
The board of health is proposing a new food strategy that hopes to provide families across the city with better access to...
Food & Drink
New fat attack ad ensures that we never drink pop again
Some governments are attacking obesity head-on, but none more than New York's. As we reported a few months ago, the Big Apple's...
Food & Drink
Wine for gamers, diet soda most popular among the overweight, Canadians drunker than a decade ago
• Mike James , the Canadian-born operator of 8-Bit Vintners, knows that Generation Y is more about Half Life than the good...
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Food & Drink
Waiters’ secrets revealed, the thieving of oysters, Loblaws to move into Maple Leaf Gardens
• After years of delays, a Loblaws supermarket is set to occupy part of the space inside Maple Leaf Gardens. The grocery giant...
Food & Drink
Q&A: three minutes with Naked Chef Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver will send foodophiles into full swoon this Sunday, when he appears Roy Thomson Hall to speak about his new...
Food & Drink
Snow White copyright violated, British cheese outsells French cheese, Twitter starts selling wine
• In Australia, an ad campaign for Jamieson’s raspberry ale has re-imagined Snow White as a coquettish sexpot, and...
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Food & Drink
Kobe beef dogs versus Shopsy’s, mac-and-cheese taste test, the science of successful wine labels
• A Kobe beef hot dog should be superior to the standard wiener, right? With high-end wieners recently making a splash in...
Food & Drink
Fast-food copycat, street meat problems, Nelson Mandela’s eating habits
• A Long Island man claims to have cracked KFC' s notoriously well-guarded fried chicken recipe. In fact, Ron Douglas —who...
Food & Drink
Seal meat on the rise, New Yorkers in the Junction, marriage linked to obesity
• Seal meat is the hot entrée at Montreal restaurants a month after the Governor General Michaëlle Jean horrified vegans by...
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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
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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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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