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The man who bought Toronto Life for a dollar and turned it into a multimillion-dollar media empire
Without a plan, he built a city magazine that has endured for half a century
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Culture
Two of Toronto’s favourite book festivals, Word on the Street and the International Festival of Authors, are teaming up
Two of Toronto's biggest festivals for book lovers, Word on the Street and the International Festival of Authors, are being joined...
City News
How Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke brought the stodgy newspaper back to life
Michael Cooke, the Toronto Star’ s tabloid-minded editor, is on a mission to expose the corruption and crookedness of the...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: After years of playing the reclusive literary genius, Alice Munro is back with a new collection of stories
The 81-year-old Alice Munro has been publishing short stories for nearly half a century, and she keeps getting better, sharpening...
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City News
The A.V. Club Toronto is shutting down
Torontoist is reporting that the Toronto-centric edition of the A.V. Club, the Onion’ s arts and culture publication, will shut...
City News
Jesse Brown: Why the latest multi-purpose e-readers are great for everything but reading books
The smell of an old book. The heft of a thick novel. The sensation of turning the last page of a ripping yarn with a freshly...
City News
Did the Kardashians steal the idea for their magazine from a Toronto company?
After Fashionista broke the story that the Kardashians were receiving pitches for their potential magazine from Toronto-based...
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City News
Why three prominent Chinese-Canadian writers launched a $10-million plagiarism suit against Ling Zhang
A tale of death threats, tarnished reputations and literary jealousy The streets near Scarborough’s Confederation Park curve and...
Culture
The Flying Dragon Bookshop bites the dust
It’s no secret that the last few years haven’t been kind to the local ink-and-paper publishing industry. We’ve said goodbye...
City News
School librarians are an endangered species outside of Toronto—but should we care?
The number of librarians across Ontario is on the decline. According to a new study by People for Education , 80 per cent of the...
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City News
In his first novel, The Free World, David Bezmozgis finds beauty in a layover from hell
David Bezmozgis’s debut, the 2004 collection Natasha and Other Stories , was an unlikely success, given its targeted subject:...
City News
What are the chances that Toronto’s newspapers will go all digital?
News came out on Friday that the Montreal daily La Presse has a plan to embrace the Internet era with gusto: according to reports...
Shopping
The Thing: a gorgeous book that begs to be judged by its cover
Authentic, old-fashioned, bespoke, handcrafted—these are the buzzwords on which the book industry is staking its future...
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Culture
Harlequin wants to patent “the kiss”—whatever that means
Harlequin Enterprises, part of Torstar Corp., dominates the romance fiction market, publishing inspired titles such as Mail Order...
City News
With two new products, can Rupert Murdoch and Amazon save news from the Internet?
We’re well past the dark years of 2008-09 when it seemed like newspapers and magazines were an endangered species, but the...
City News
A passage to India: how Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s Secret Daughter became an unlikely best-seller
Secret Daughter , a debut novel by an untested author, went supernova after just four days on the shelves at Costco t’s amazing...
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Culture
New Ondaatje novel confirmed for this summer, billed as “most thrilling and moving” ever
Publisher McClelland and Stewart has confirmed what the Canadian literati were already buzzing about: Michael Ondaatje ’s new...
Culture
Chapters-Indigo versus Canadian publishers: a battle looms over the fate of CanLit
The publishing industry in this country has long maintained a precarious equilibrium thanks to a bewildering but effective set of...
City News
Munsch’s monsters: Getting to know the real Robert Munsch
Now that Canada’s most famous children’s author has confessed to being a booze- and coke-addicted obsessive-compulsive with bipolar disorder and suicidal tendencies, what else is there to say?
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Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 12
So there we were, basking in the afterglow of Ma and Pa Strange belting out Buffy Saint Marie on karaoke (we knew we were in for a...
City News
Is Canada’s high-low culture war a figment of John Doyle’s imagination?
For the second day in a row, the Globe and Mail 's television columnist, John Doyle, is boldly claiming there is a culture war...
Culture
Public denied award-winning book by territorial East Coast publisher
She's been a Giller winner for all of 36 hours, but already Johanna Skibsrud is at the centre of a controversy that has all of...
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Culture
Johanna Skibsrud wins Giller Prize, jaws drop
It was to the sound of numerous jaws hitting the floor that author Johanna Skibsrud was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize last...
Culture
Power to the people! Readers decide setting and title of new Robert Munsch book
In today's interactive crowd-sourced world, it would seem that nothing is sacred, not even something as wholesome as a children's...
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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
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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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