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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $769,000 for a Parkdale home with an apartment to spare
Address: 66 Lansdowne Avenue Neighbourhood: Parkdale Agent: Leonard Fridman , The Condo Store Realty Inc. Price: $769,000 The...
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City News
RAT APOCALYPSE! Toronto’s new home invaders are growing in shocking numbers
An investigation into how Toronto became a vermin breeding ground
City News
How Cameron Bailey, artistic director of TIFF would spend a perfect Saturday in Parkdale
“I first moved to Parkdale in 1998, and I’ve seen a lot of changes since. The condos are creeping up, but Parkdale retains its...
Food & Drink
The city clamps down on the Parkdale party scene with a new Queen West restaurant cap
Over the last five years, the stretch of Queen West between Dufferin and Roncesvalles, once known for drugs and prostitution, has...
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City News
Editor’s Letter (August 2013): the party pooping Parkdale restaurant moratorium
Parkdale on a hot summer night is an exceedingly fun place to be. If you’re lucky enough to snag a seat at Grand Electric, the...
Shopping
Parkdale gets its own pop-up flea market
At this rate, every rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood in Toronto will soon have its own flea market. On the heels of popular...
Food & Drink
A new seafood spot named Geraldine is moving into Cowbell’s previous Parkdale digs
Former Cowbell chef Peter Ramsay, who also did a stint as the chef de cuisine at Sidecar in Little Italy, is opening a new seafood...
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Food & Drink
Review: Electric Mud BBQ is a raucous Parkdale party spot for barbecue and bourbon
Electric Mud BBQ ★½ 5 Brock Ave., 416-516-8286 The team behind Grand Electric, Parkdale’s new-wave taqueria, has opened a...
Style
Store Guide: North Standard Trading Post, a new Canadiana-themed boutique in Parkdale
Name: North Standard Trading Post Sells: Clothing, shoes, and accessories for men, women, and kids; items for the home; grooming...
Food & Drink
Review: Porzia, a buzzy rustic Italian restaurant on the Parkdale strip
Porzia ★★ 1314 Queen St. W., 647-342-5776 porzia.ca Porzia’s timing is both good and bad. On the one hand, the owner-chef...
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City News
Rob Ford is facing another integrity complaint over his letters to lobbyists
Even after nearly being booted from office for it, Rob Ford continues to send out fundraising letters to registered lobbyists...
Shopping
The Find: Toronto-made lingerie that you’ll still want to wear after Valentine’s Day
Although Valentine’s Day gift guides are usually chock full of lingerie, most women actually prefer to buy their own lacy bits...
Food & Drink
Queen West’s Cowbell closes after six years
Mark Cutrara announced the end of his six-year-old Queen West farm-to-table restaurant over the weekend. Cowbell was a forerunner...
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Style
Great Spaces: a designer’s Brooklyn sensibility finds a home in Parkdale
Courtney Wotherspoon never intended to settle in Toronto. The 31-year-old illustrator and designer studied at the Pratt Institute...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Porzia, a new Italian restaurant in Parkdale
Name: Porzia Neighbourhood: Parkdale Contact info: 1314 Queen St. W., 647-342-5776, porzia.ca, @porziaparkdale Owners: Basilio...
Food & Drink
Long-awaited Porzia opens tonight in Parkdale
Porzia, the new restaurant from former Biff’s chef Basilio Pesce, is opening on Queen West tonight after weeks of...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Room 203, Guy Rawlings’ new food event space
Room 203 is the latest project from chef Guy Rawlings, who first gained notoriety at Brockton General before taking on consulting...
Food & Drink
Rodney Bowers of Hey Meatball! is launching a meal token program to feed the hungry
This spring, Rodney Bowers, the chef and owner of Hey! and Hey Meatball!, is starting a new program aimed at helping the...
Food & Drink
Grand Electric’s second floor falls victim to the Parkdale restaurant moratorium (UPDATED)
Grand Electric’ s second-storey expansion, which would’ve added 40 seats to perennially packed taco bar, is on hold due to the...
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Food & Drink
The Pinball Café falls victim to Parkdale’s restaurant ban (UPDATED)
Earlier today, Jason and Rachel Hazzard, owners of Parkdale’s Pinball Café, posted a note on Facebook announcing they’re...
Style
Great Spaces: inside a couple’s modish Parkdale renovation
In the summer of 2007, Anna Zalewski quit her job as a Bay Street lawyer, sold her house in Riverdale and moved to Barcelona. Her...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Go Lounge, Parkdale’s new board game café
The never-ending line for a table at Snakes and Lattes convinced Samantha Lerner and Alisa Sadler, friends and patrons of the...
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Food & Drink
Keriwa reverts to à-la-carte service
In October, Aaron Joseph Bear Robe announced that Keriwa Cafe, his critically lauded Parkdale restaurant, would be moving to a...
Food & Drink
Parkdale strip hit with Ossington-style restaurant ban (but Grand Electric’s expansion is safe)
Last week, city councillor Gord Perks quietly pushed through a moratorium (like the one on Ossington in 2009) on new restaurants...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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