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City News
A provincial recycling truck collected one Toronto resident’s bin but skipped the rest of the street
Councillor Josh Matlow called the new recycling program’s roll-out “a hot mess”
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City News
What’s going on with Toronto’s new recycling system?
Residents around the city say the province’s new recycling company has forgotten to pick up their bins
City News
Q&A: Matt Keliher, Toronto’s top garbage man, on the recycling crisis
He says companies that produce plastic should pay to recycle it
City News
How a salvage crew took Captain John’s on one last voyage
Wayne Elliott wanted to give Captain John’s a dignified death. In his 40-year career, the senior salvage master with Marine...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour roots through my recycling bin. Can I ask her to stop?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My neighbour is a total eco-Nazi. She leads an enviro group and hosts a regular Skype chat on carbon...
Style
H&M is giving vouchers for bags of old clothes
H&M’ s new garment recycling program starts tomorrow in all Canadian stores. Shoppers who bring in a bag of old clothes (from...
City News
Philip Preville: Shark fins, pet store puppies, plastic bags—why Toronto city councillors like to ban things
Rob Ford’s victories rarely last. In fact they only become more stunted as his mayoralty lurches along. For his opening salvo in...
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City News
Can Rob Ford tell the difference between wasteful and regular-government-has-to-run-a-city spending?
The budget committee continued the city’s march toward reducing spending last week, approving a motion that will eliminate...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.2 million for a modern, eco-conscious home in Hillcrest Park
ADDRESS : 95 Ilford Road NEIGHBOURHOOD : Wychwood AGENT : Lorena Maria Romano, Royal LePage West, Brokerage PRICE : $1,195,000 THE...
City News
Toronto’s first core service review is out; on the menu: cuts, cuts and more cuts
When he was running for office in 2010, Mayor Rob Ford repeatedly assured voters that he could deliver his budget promises to the...
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City News
Ontario’s e-waste recycling program is a “Soviet Union-esque” disaster
Okay, we’re not going to go quite as far as the critic who equated the provincially mandated Ontario Electronic Stewardship to...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.7 million for a green-minded home overlooking the Don Valley
ADDRESS : 118 Parkview Hills Crescent NEIGHBOURHOOD : O’Connor-Parkview AGENT : Raza Haider Naqi , Re/Max Vision Realty...
Real Estate News
Astral Media finally admits that its sidewalk rubbish bins are garbage
When the city started rolling out its new streetside garbage cans four years ago, we were taken with them in a “huh, that’s...
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Food & Drink
Starbucks’ Toronto recycling pilot program a success
Starbucks has finally proven that its paper cups are recyclable. Turns out that most paper drinking receptacles from Starbucks end...
City News
City’s new recycling program takes cues from Cash for Gold
This week’s homegrown viral video comes from the municipal government, which earlier in the week released a series of...
City News
Seven Long Years: How will David Miller be remembered?
As a kvetchy, largely ineffective do-gooder ultimately undone by the unionists who helped elect him Unless Joe Pantalone, the...
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City News
Margaret Atwood calls plan to close prison farms “dumb as a stump”
Margaret Atwood scared us into improving our recycling habits with her novels about environmental apocalypse, but the CanLit queen...
Food & Drink
Rotten timing: The strike and the city’s restaurants
Restaurant owners aren’t exactly singing “Solidarity Forever” these days. With such services as garbage collection and...
Food & Drink
If we can recycle paper and plastic in our blue bins, what’s with the big stink over Tim Hortons coffee cups?
City hall’s recent tirade against plastic Timmy’s lids has led many to assume that they’re the sole enviro-offenders in the...
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Summer Camp Guide
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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
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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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