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City News
G20 Toronto photo gallery: after the riots
In the wake of yesterday's violent anti-G20 protests in downtown Toronto, police attempted to regain control of the streets while...
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City News
Slide show: Toronto’s anti-G20 riot
What started as a peaceful protest at Queen's Park, with about 10,000 participants, became a riot as a small group of violent...
City News
All hell breaks loose during G20 protest at Queen and Spadina; TTC finally has reason for late streetcars
News is trickling in via Twitter and TV that a flare set off at Spadina and Queen West has shut down traffic, including all TTC...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto
While the Great Recession battered other cities, Toronto has emerged triumphant—Bay Street is bullish, our real estate market is...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Parts and Labour, Parkdale’s new bar-club-restaurant-art gallery-wine bar
For many residents of Parkdale, the opening of Parts and Labour at the Roncy end of Queen West means one of two things: here’s a...
Style
Sydney’s to relocate after Queen West fire
An apartment fire on Queen Street West at Manning at the end of May caused about $600,000 in damage, affecting four shops in the...
Food & Drink
Torito’s former chef sets up roast chicken restaurant in Igor Kenk’s old bike shack
One has to wonder how Igor Kenk would feel knowing his old Queen West cycle clinic is about to be replaced by something even...
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Shopping
Slippery sole: bathing shoes stylish enough for the sidewalk
Robber, one of our favourite little Queen West boutiques, has just received a limited supply of these super cute bathing shoes...
City News
Never there: the adventures of our errant councillors
It might seem that our city councillors would get into less trouble if they'd just stop showing up at work. At least then they...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: La Palette, Queen West edition
The new outpost of La Palette on Queen West has much in common with the Kensington Market original: a nearly identically sized...
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Food & Drink
The scoop on the Drake Hotel’s new ice cream shop
Heavenly hot days—like today, in fact—are great days to be a Torontonian, if only because we have some of the best ice cream...
City News
Will Munro, 1975-2010
Will Munro , the Toronto-based artist who helped redefine what “queer” meant in Toronto, passed away on Friday morning of...
Style
Four shops on Queen West damaged by fire
A fire on Queen Street West at Manning last night caused $600,000 in damage, left three people homeless and damaged four shops...
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City News
The List: Brendan Canning’s favourite things
Broken Social Scene’s long-awaited fourth album is out, and their annual Island concert is this month. Here, 10 things the...
Food & Drink
Local Kitchen to expand eastward with Bar Salumi, an “aperitif bar”
Fabio Bondi and Michael Sangregorio , the guys behind the Parkdale hot spot Local Kitchen and Wine Bar , are slowly taking over...
City News
Hipsters cheer, cruisers jeer: G20 protest area moved from Trinity Bellwoods to Queen’s Park
Ironic picnics and post-brunch strolls will continue without disruption as cops issue a press release today about moving the...
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Food & Drink
Former governor general now shilling olive oil
Who knew Adrienne Clarkson is a farmer? The former governor general and her husband, John Ralston Saul, produce olive oil on their...
Culture
Toronto’s east vs. west debate fuelled by iPad-toting Star reporter
For those who believe the hype, the iPad is capable of doing just about anything. Well, it can’t make phone calls, but...
Food & Drink
The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
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City News
Toronto’s Art Battle takes a page from the reality TV playbook
In an attempt to fill the reality arts entertainment void left by Canadian Idol, Toronto’s Art Battle pits would-be Picassos...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Atlantic, where Nathan Isberg goes from Coca to crickets
There are two things that chef Nathan Isberg kept in mind when opening his new restaurant: he wanted to do it without investors...
Culture
Kardinal Offishall doesn’t hate Drake, he just doesn’t want to talk about him
Kardinal Offishall, once Toronto’s ambassador to the world of hip hop with his 2001 single "BaKardi Slang," wherein he...
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Food & Drink
Next target in city’s war on fun: West Queen West
There was the moratorium on new restaurants on Ossington, the end of community pizza nights at Christie Pits and the brouhaha over...
Food & Drink
More details about La Palette’s new Queen West location
As we reported last week, Kensington Market’s La Palette is opening a new location on Queen West. After a chat with owner Shamez...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
Big Stories
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!”
Just Listed
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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
Just Listed
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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