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Dear Urban Diplomat: I find the skateboarder memorial outside my building upsetting. What can I do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, A skateboarder was killed by a cab outside my building, and six months later, the sidewalk memorial is still...
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Nuit Blanche 2012 guide: our top 20 picks for Toronto’s seventh annual all-night art crawl
This Saturday, September 29, hordes of art lovers, all-purpose revellers and the generally curious will take to downtown for the...
Real Estate News
John Tory thinks there should be condos at Ontario Place (but not too many)
Though the creep of condo towers across Toronto can feel inexorable, John Tory is insisting that Ontario Place could accomodate...
City News
Judge upholds city’s eviction order for Occupy Toronto; Doug Ford muses about the end of “Woodstock Toronto”
If last week’s eviction notice was the beginning of the end for Occupy Toronto’s scrappy camp in St. James Park, today’s...
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City News
Does a new naming rights policy mean Toronto has a revenue problem after all?
Mayor Rob Ford and his pals on the executive committee recently approved a policy for naming rights in the city, one that will...
City News
Toronto Sun and Doug Holyday leading the charge to oust Occupy Toronto protesters from St. James Park
Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday has heard from people—both local residents and people who work in the area (oh my!)—who want Occupy...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can we reclaim our soccer pitch without looking like jerks?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I play a casual game of pickup soccer with a bunch of other late-30s dads on weekends at Bickford Park. For...
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City News
Pro-toplessness advocacy organization marches through Toronto streets half-naked and believes in aliens
Last week, the city denied a permit to the group GoTopless, which had planned an event at Ashbridges Bay Park on Sunday to mark...
City News
50 Reasons To Love Toronto: No. 13, Sherbourne Common is changing the waterfront
For years, Toronto’s eastern waterfront has been a bit like Amy Winehouse—full of potential but deeply troubled and rife with...
Culture
Nuit Blanche exhibit will allow spectators to control CN Tower light show
The nightly CN Tower LED display has garnered mixed reactions since it began in 2007—some even compared it to a sci-fi Christmas...
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Real Estate News
Guerrilla activists hack 85 Toronto billboards, replacing ads with art
Four months after Banksy's stop in Toronto, another group of guerrilla art activists has taken to the streets—only this...
Real Estate News
What do former mayoral candidates do with their free time? Just ask Giorgio Mammoliti about his giant pole
Giorgio Mammoliti has been quiet since his departure from the mayoral race, which is a shame: we'll never forget his wacky YouTube...
Real Estate News
Toronto’s newest beach opens, David Miller suggests skinny dipping
After waiting for years for anything to happen on our derelict, post-industrial waterfront, it seems like something opens every...
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City News
The Q&A: Babak the Builder
Babak Eslahjou, the architect who wants to be mayor, heads Core, one of Toronto’s most prestigious design firms. He knows how 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...
Food & Drink
Today in Toronto: G20, Pride, Toronto Jazz Festival
G20: The summit we've all been waiting for (and dreading) has begun. Follow our coverage >> Pride: Expanding to take over ever...
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Today in Toronto: Authors at Harbourfront Centre
Authors at Harbourfront Centre: Architectural experts Margaret and Phil Goodfellow and Shawn Micallef present different views of...
City News
The Lost Station
After stalling for years amid corruption charges, lawsuits and bureaucratic bungling, the overhaul of Union Station is finally...
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The not-so-secret garden: Toronto is poised to get its first community orchard
Toronto's first public orchard may be approved as soon as next week, if the city gives the pilot project a green thumbs-up. Susan...
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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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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
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
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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