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Real Estate News
A wave of affordable housing and shiny venues is taking over Parkdale
More than 400 new units will soon line Queen West
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Culture
Toronto art legend Katharine Mulherin’s son is carrying on her legacy with a new west-end gallery
Can he rebuild the early aughts’ authenticity?
Food & Drink
This new kitchen on Queen West is remixing Italian favourites with Asian flavours
Liliana is from former Vela chef Marvin Palomo
City News
Mike Myers and Dave Foley paid a visit to the Rivoli
And you can watch their surely funny conversation when Foley’s show airs
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Real Estate News
Steve’s Music will close retail locations in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal
The legendary store at Queen and Spadina is moving its operations online
Food & Drink
A popular French pâtisserie is reopening next month as a full-service bistro
The Queen West location of Nadège will soon be Chez Nad
Food & Drink
This new bar wants to inject some life back into Queen West
Can One Star Bar help the street get its groove back?
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City News
This data scientist mapped every parking ticket issued in Toronto over the past 16 years
It’s fun to see how many millions your street has racked up
Food & Drink
A former Vela chef is opening an Italian restaurant on Queen West
Set to open this fall, Liliana will pair Italian foundations with Asian influences
City News
This bureaucrat turned barista makes $60,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“My new landlord offered a month of free rent, and that sold it for me”
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Shopping
Neighbourhood Crawl: What Kardinal Offishall loves about Queen West
The multi-platinum artist and music exec takes us on a tour of his favourite spots
Food & Drink
This buzzy new Trinity-Bellwoods pizzeria has a park-facing patio and margarita towers
For when a regular pitcher just won’t do
Food & Drink
“One of our regulars got the logo tattooed on her butt”: The new owners of Squirly’s on bringing a beloved Queen West dive bar back from the dead
For once, nostalgia triumphed over condo developers
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TL Insider
Knix’s Queen West store just got a fresh makeover. Here’s a peek inside
Activewear, swimwear and undergarments in pinks, greens and blues—perfect summer ready hues for your wardrobe
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Knix
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at I Am Döner, the quirky British kebab chain’s first North American location
Including wraps, fully loaded fries and decadent milkshakes
Real Estate News
Before and After: How a $90,000 DIY reno brought Parisian style to a cookie-cutter loft on Queen West
Goodbye, orange floors, cramped corners and nursing-home vibes. Hello, hardwood, tile, raised ceilings and contemporary verve
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Lyla, a sleek new Mediterranean restaurant on Queen West
Including black truffle tortellini and a fresh fish counter
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Comma, a Korean restaurant on Queen West serving raw marinated crab
And pairing it with scotch whisky
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Astoria, a new French-American bistro inside the Great Hall
It replaces Otto's Bierhalle
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Good Company, a new Queen West café and cocktail bar (that’s also a barbershop)
For all your bagel tower, beer and buzz cut needs
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at And/Ore, a whimsical new Queen West restaurant with a cave
Including all kinds of champagne by the glass and a cotton candy cocktail
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Bar Prima, an old-school Italian restaurant on Queen West from the team behind La Palma
Including a beet caprese, swordfish piccata and savoury zeppole
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City News
“I’ve worked at the Black Bull Tavern for 40 years—and I plan to stay until the very end”
The Black Bull is up for sale. Here, bartender Sheldon Chow recalls some of his wildest encounters and considers a future Queen West where the bar may be no more
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Prequel & Co. Apothecary, a whimsical new Queen West cocktail lounge from the owner of BarChef
Just don't call it a speakeasy
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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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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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