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Food & Drink
Best of the City 2011: Five top spots for a delicious drink
Rooftop drink Cocktail class Ice Blood orange margarita Wine by the glass The Roof Lounge 4 Avenue Rd., 416-925-1234 The Park...
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Food & Drink
Ontario to (slightly) loosen liquor laws by summer: Attorney General
We’ll have that mimosa right about now, please. A couple months ago, we reported that Attorney General Chris Bentley made a...
City News
The war on fun takes aim at a new target: city patios
City council was busy junking 2010’s harmonization of city zoning bylaws yesterday—but as the Toronto Star points out , that...
Food & Drink
Parts and Labour patio nixed by Parkdale residents and committee of adjustment
Looks like revellers will be staying indoors this summer at Parkdale hot spot Parts and Labour . Inside Toronto is reporting that...
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Food & Drink
War on fun: New zoning bylaw prohibits restaurants and bars located south of Bloor from having back patios
Think the one-year ban on bars and restaurants on Ossington was strict? This week, a new zoning bylaw quietly went into effect; it...
City News
A week in Toronto council: flagpoles, ice rinks and doubling down on crazy
Racing to meet a deadline—that pesky election that we've heard so much about—Toronto's city council is hard at work trying to...
City News
Tobacco timeline: with candy cigarettes now banned, we look back at Canada’s anti-smoking history
Fruit-flavoured and candy cigarettes and cigars were pulled from shelves across Canada yesterday as part of the government’s...
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Food & Drink
Get outside: Toronto’s 10 best patios
The patio season started early this year, which simply means there's more time to hit the city's best al fresco dining and...
City News
G20’s Toronto takeover: a roundup of snarls, snags, closures and general headaches
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the perimeter fences that will cordon off vast swaths of downtown for the G20 (June 25 to...
City News
G20 organizers: the only childish games during the summit will be at the convention centre
As the G20 summit looms, it’s looking more and more like Toronto FC will be the only thing in the city not brought to a complete...
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Food & Drink
Study of Ossington hip strip is bad news for new restaurant owners and patio lovers across Toronto
When Toronto’s most notorious fuddy-duddy, Joe Pantalone, championed last May’s ban on new licences along lower Ossington, the...
Food & Drink
Robot chefs, 10 best American restaurants, Whole Foods boycott
• Chinese restaurant chain I Robot is being picketed by chefs who say their robot counterparts—which each do the job of five...
Food & Drink
The other day, a smoker lit up right beside my eight-month-old on a patio. Isn’t there a law against that?
In the past few years, smoking near wee ones has become as socially unsavoury as bombing around in a Hummer, and neither Obama’s...
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Food & Drink
Get outside: More new patios open in Toronto
With the summertime gods finally smiling, we took another look around town for patios that have sprouted up this...
Food & Drink
The new patios of summer ’09: Fresh grazing grounds for outdoorsy appetites
With spring heating up into summer, we scoped out some new (and renewed) terraces that will get a beer-drenched baptism this...
Food & Drink
Open season: A look at some of the city’s best patios
This past weekend proved that double-digit temperatures are all Torontonians need to get patio season going. We checked out some...
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Food & Drink
Beer: The new wine
Forget the chardonnay—beer is Toronto's new dining partner. We’ve been watching the beer-pairing trend since it popped up over...
Food & Drink
Starfish’s Shucker Paddy brings some more Irish to the east end
Leslieville must have the luck of the Irish. The east-end neighbourhood will be home to two new Irish pubs this spring: The Roy...
Food & Drink
The patio season battleground is outside Future Bakery’s front door
Being knee-deep in winter , we are just starting to fantasize about Toronto’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it patio season. The time...
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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
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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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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