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Doug Ford thinks city hall plays favourites with the downtown core (it has more wading pools than the suburbs, after all)
Apparently, there’s a “suburbs/downtown rift” affecting Toronto—or at least Doug Ford says there is. What’s more, Dougie...
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City News
Reaction roundup: guess which city columnist called Rob Ford a “rotund, rich, balding guy from the suburbs”?
Because newspaper columnists love tying their columns to milestones — for instance, say, the first anniversary of Rob Ford’ s...
Real Estate News
Suburban condos sales top Toronto for the first time ever
New condo sales in the 905 hit record levels in August, beating out Toronto for the first time. The numbers aren’t even...
City News
Apparently, Rob Ford’s proposed budget cuts are about as popular as a civic workers’ strike
A poll released today reveals that Rob Ford’ s approval ratings are dropping—fast—which, really, shouldn’t be much of a...
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City News
Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
City News
Dalton McGuinty tries to sweet talk supreme ruler and lord of the suburbs, Hazel McCallion
Dalton McGuinty is reaching out to Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion for a bit of suburban support. McCallion hasn’t officially...
City News
TDSB asked to move gifted program from overcrowded school—charges of racism and elitism ensue
Somehow the biggest story in Toronto public education is all of a sudden all about class, race and prestige. The story centres on...
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City News
Get a sneak peek at Philip Preville’s Toronto Life September issue cover story “Exodus to the Burbs”
Brian Porter and Carrie Low thought they’d hatched the perfect plan to avoid the eight-lane gridlock they faced every week on...
Real Estate News
The Chase: One couple resists the lure of suburbia for a few more precious years downtown
The Buyers: Erica Smith, a 34-year-old real estate agent with Condo Chicks, and her fiancé, Marc Puddy, a 37-year-old insurance...
Culture
The Polaris Music Prize long list was announced yesterday at The Drake, and it contains 30 per cent Toronto bands
Yesterday at the Drake Hotel’s Sky Yard, the long list for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize was announced. The list, compiled by a...
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City News
Toronto does a poor job of getting kids active, so (surprise, surprise) Toronto kids aren’t active
A new report from Get Active Toronto (guess what they’re all about) says that 93 per cent of local youth don’t get the minimum...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $3.5 million for a country manor on 37 acres
ADDRESS : 14,650 7 Concession NEIGHBOURHOOD : King City AGENT : Carolyn Scime, Chestnut Park Realty, Brokerage and Diana...
City News
Orange crush: Canada’s sudden NDP love-in leaves Toronto cold
Remember when the writ dropped and the national press spent 48 hours wondering if NDP leader Jack Layton could stand up to the...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: an 1880 Aldershot triplex for under $1 million
ADDRESS : 327 Townsend Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD : Aldershot, Burlington AGENT : Dan Cooper and Sheela Dombkowski, Royal LePage Real...
Real Estate News
Condo high rises post record in February, but is that a good thing or a bad thing?
According to builder’s group BILD GTA, Toronto hit a landmark last month as high-rise condo towers added more than 2,000...
City News
Could a Tea Party–esque movement be good for Toronto?
With federal and provincial elections looming, there’s a good chance that Torontonians will have conservative leaders all the...
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Real Estate News
Hate winter? The people who take care of Toronto’s 5,000 km of pipes agree
Here’s a surprisingly interesting story from the National Post about plumbing —no, seriously! Basically, the winter of...
Real Estate News
Sign of the apocalypse #49,273: the Toronto Star, National Post and Spacing all agree on something—subways
We’re not going to go so far as to call it an “editorial consensus,” but with the debate over subways that Toronto’s been...
City News
Violence-crazed Toronto sells out the 55,000-seat Rogers Centre UFC event in 48 hours
Montreal may have gotten the prime-time shout-out in last night’s Grammy Awards Arcade Fire speech , but Toronto can still lord...
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Could Stephen Harper win Toronto seats with TTC cash?
Judging by the amount of ink that has already been spilled over a potential federal election , it’s not too early to start...
City News
Karen Stintz wants to crack down on bikes on sidewalks
We can’t imagine why Karen Stintz , who’s got work up to her eyeballs with the restructuring of the TTC under Rob Ford ’s...
City News
New interactive map shows which baby names are popular in all of Toronto’s neighbourhoods
What’s in a name? Apparently, quite a bit. A new interactive map by Toronto’s master of geo-data, Patrick Cain —he’s the...
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City News
Cats now prisoners in their own Oakville homes
Toronto city hall has a reputation—deserved or not—for passing more regulations than its suburban counterparts. But while...
City News
Proposed TTC fare hike works out to pretty much the same amount as cutting the vehicle registration tax
Rob Ford ’s first budget as mayor says a lot about where the city is heading over the next four years. The list of cuts...
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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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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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