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“We’ve ordered a couple of remote-controlled UV sterilizing robots”: All the futuristic ways office buildings will change when it’s time to go back to work
Expect round-the-clock cleaning, elevator scheduling apps and touchless everything
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I’m tired of every suburbanite in my office “working from home” when it snows. How do I complain without being a jerk?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live and work downtown. Many of my co-workers commute from Mississauga and Hamilton. Every time the...
City News
An inside look at Coca-Cola’s brand new King Street East headquarters
What: Coca-Cola Canada’s new headquarters Where: An addition to the top of the Toronto Sun building on King Street East How Big:...
City News
Great Offices: Google’s envy-inducing home base at Bay and Richmond
What: Google’s Canadian sales and marketing headquarters Where: A 1955 modernist building at Bay and Richmond How Big: 58,000...
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City News
Great Offices: an ad agency’s quirky John Street headquarters, complete with slide
What: Grip Ltd., an ad agency with clients like Honda, Bell, Budweiser, Samsung, Labatt and Kokanee, among others Where: A brick...
City News
Great Offices: Sid Lee’s lofty space inside a Distillery District landmark
What: Sid Lee, a multidisciplinary creative shop that specializes in architecture, design, advertising and marketing Where: The...
City News
Editor’s Letter (April 2013): why the digital age requires new and unorthodox office spaces
Shayne Hughes, the CEO of a California-based business consultancy called Learning as Leadership, recently put a moratorium on...
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Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: demand for offices, condo bidding wars and the echo boom’s influence
For the past six months, local real estate chatter revolved around Toronto’s cooling housing market. This week presented a...
Real Estate News
Office tower gossip: another mega-building could be coming to the financial district
With Toronto’s commercial real estate market on a serious roll, there are whispers about another tower planned for the downtown...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 14, because there’s beauty in this beast
In a city overrun with delicate glass towers, 222 Jarvis is an oddity. The hulking, inverted ziggurat, opened in 1971 as...
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City News
Glenn De Baeremaeker’s office dwarfs Doug Holyday’s—and Sue-Ann Levy is not cool with that
Toronto Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy is riled up that some city councillors have taken up an offer to move into bigger...
Real Estate News
Five things we learned about selling a billion-dollar tower (specifically, Scotia Plaza) from Canadian Business
When Scotiabank announced in January that it would sell its red granite skyscraper, analysts speculated it would go for well over...
Real Estate News
Office Space: $3.25 million for two semi-detached homes revamped into one stately office building
ADDRESS: 49-51 Gloucester Street NEIGHBOURHOOD: Church-Yonge Corridor AGENT: Matthew Johnson, Colliers International PRICE:...
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Office Space: $2 million for the 4,500-square-foot “Sunflower Building” on Richmond West
ADDRESS: 686 Richmond Street West NEIGHBOURHOOD : Niagara AGENT: Lee Taylor and Donald Mulholland, Bosley Real Estate...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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
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Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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