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Editor’s Letter: Toronto trailblazers, then and now
Back in high school, I was friends with the daughter of Bridget Lynch, a pioneering figure in the Ontario midwifery...
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Editor’s Letter: the cost of police carding is just too high
Since the Toronto Police Service introduced the practice of carding about 10 years ago, they have collected data on over a million...
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’s Sarah Fulford talk #TorontoIsFailingMe on Global
This month's cover story on Toronto's inner suburbs and what it's like to live in them hits newsstands today, and this...
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Why Toronto needs to talk about the inner suburbs
The seven-year-old girl above, Amal Syed, came to Canada three years ago from Abu Dhabi. Her father is a computer analyst who left...
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The Divided City: a letter from the editor on Toronto’s urban-suburban smackdown
Rishabh Kumar, a Grade 12 student at Earl Haig, is one of those geeky 17-year-olds who love to wear ties and live to participate...
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Editor’s Letter (January 2014): Porter’s expansion is an enthusiastic embrace of urban life
My new favourite spot in the city is the rooftop patio of the Corus Quay building, the headquarters for Corus Entertainment, at...
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Editor’s Letter (November 2013): Will stay-at-home dads feel as marginalized as stay-at-home moms once did?
Forty years ago, this magazine published provocative, trend-defining pieces about women entering the workforce. The stories...
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Editor’s Letter (October 2013): the best of the artisanal food invasion
Before the cronut burger arrived at the CNE and poisoned 200 people with the staphylococcus aureus toxin, the cronut—sans beef...
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Editor’s Letter (September 2013): what makes a great neighbourhood?
Almost two years ago, one of my neighbours proposed we have a block party. We’d close the road to traffic and all hang out...
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Editor’s Letter (August 2013): the party pooping Parkdale restaurant moratorium
Parkdale on a hot summer night is an exceedingly fun place to be. If you’re lucky enough to snag a seat at Grand Electric, the...
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Editor’s Letter (July 2013): how can Toronto protect its parks?
One of the nicest ways to spend a summer afternoon is to go to Trinity Bellwoods Park, find a spot on the grass and...
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Watch Toronto Life editor Sarah Fulford discuss our fifth annual edition of Reasons to Love Toronto Now
Feel giddy about your city? Us too! We love that the Jays are back in the swing of things, we love that our new premier isn’t...
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Editor’s Letter (June 2013): Regent Park proves that big, visionary projects can get off the ground
We all have places in Toronto we like to show off to guests from out of town. In the summer, I take my visiting friends to...
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Editor’s Letter (May 2013): is Rob Ford a folk hero or an international embarrassment?
Rob Ford has many fans. According to a poll conducted by Forum Research a couple of days after Sarah Thomson accused Ford of...
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Editor’s Letter (April 2013): why the digital age requires new and unorthodox office spaces
Shayne Hughes, the CEO of a California-based business consultancy called Learning as Leadership, recently put a moratorium on...
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Editor’s Letter (March 2013): interracial marriages, multiculturalism and the mixed-race generation
In grade school, I was taught that Canada embraces multiculturalism, whereas the United States is a melting pot. The notion was...
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Editor’s Letter (February 2013): public sex, massage parlours and bawdy houses
I myself have never had sex in public. As it turns out, I’m in the minority. An astonishing 65 per cent of Torontonians claim to...
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Video: Toronto Life editor Sarah Fulford dishes on Torontonians’ sex lives
Toronto Life’ s inaugural sex issue hit newsstands today, and editor Sarah Fulford appeared on CTV to chat about the...
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Editor’s Letter (January 2013): why Toronto is suddenly such a hotbed of creative talent
Over the past year or so, a particular breed of talented Torontonians made it big. Sheila Heti’s quirky semi-autobiographical...
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Editor’s Letter (December 2012): under the influence
David Mirvish’s plan to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre and build three 80-plus-storey Frank Gehry–designed condo...
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Editor’s Letter (October 2012): Toronto’s daycare dilemma
The daycare my son used to attend, in the west end, was located in a building that was falling apart. His caregivers were the...
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Editor’s Letter (September 2012): real estate crazy
A few blocks down the street from me, in Seaton Village, there’s a beautiful three-storey house with four bedrooms and...
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Editor’s Letter (August 2012): digging up the dirt
Toronto has been growing at a ferocious rate for as long as I can remember. The Greater Toronto Area has six million inhabitants...
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Watch Toronto Life editor Sarah Fulford discuss our annual “Best of the City” issue—on newsstands now!
Toronto Life’ s “Best of the City” issue hit newsstands today, and editor Sarah Fulford appeared on The Morning Show earlier...
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand