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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: Nos. 40-41, Wild beasts roam wild in the city’s ravines
Toronto’s ravines have long been a hospitable home for wildlife. Now we’re seeing all manner of strange beast roaming our...
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City News
Sign of spring #1: the Toronto Sun starts covering coyote sightings
As the sun’s warmth returns, so to does the Sun ’s coverage of varmints. Toronto’s dog owners might want to be on the...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.8 million for a five-bedroom, Beach-adjacent home
ADDRESS : 67 Blantyre Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD : Birchcliffe-Cliffside AGENT : Paul Sabiston , Royal LePage Estate Realty PRICE :...
City News
Awesome Foundation’s first grant winner, Stephanie Avery, to play connect the dots with Toronto
Who’s the awesomest of them all? According to the Toronto branch of the Awesome Foundation , it's Stephanie Avery , who was...
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Shopping
Good Stuff Cheap: Toronto’s five best vintage stores (no rummaging required)
For Luxury Labels Venture a few blocks north of Yorkville to Haute Classics for immaculate second-hand pieces sourced from very...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.7 million for an eight-bedroom home in the Beach’s loveliest pocket
ADDRESS: 271 Glen Manor Drive East NEIGHBOURHOOD: The Beach AGENTS: Sue Mills and Sarah O’Neill, Royal LePage Signature Realty...
City News
Least surprising political endorsement ever: John Tory supports Sandra Bussin’s opponent
John Tory ’s clashes with Sandra Bussin are hardly news , but would he go so far as to endorse her opponent? Apparently, yes...
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City News
Boardwalk Pub owner pulls the trigger, sues Ford for libel
The battle for the Beach is heating up. It all started back when the city extended Tuggs Inc.’s monopoly on selling food and...
City News
Boardwalk Café owner giving Ford a choice: apology or lawsuit
The long-running drama over the city’s decision to grant George Foulidis a 20-year monopoly on selling food and drinks along the...
Food & Drink
Showdown at the Boardwalk Café: Tuggs owner gets an earful from local candidate
There are many reasons readers might be familiar with Sandra Bussin , councillor for Beaches–East York. Some may remember the...
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City News
Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
Food & Drink
Sixteen things to do in Toronto before summer’s over
The leaves may be changing and drunken freshmen may be stumbling around the streets again, but summer isn't officially over until...
City News
Toronto’s six most memorable neighbourhood naming smackdowns
Toronto: city of neighbourhoods, multiculturalism and, to a lesser extent, bureaucracy. These three attributes collide most often...
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City News
Risk Assessment: a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood guide to the safest places to buy real estate in Toronto
No neighbourhood will react the same way to a burst bubble. We talked to market watchers, economists, mortgage brokers and...
Food & Drink
The Danforth Guide: our 21 favourite spots along the east end’s main avenue
The east end’s main thoroughfare has long been known for two things: Greek food and the Taste of the Danforth. Over the past...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Beach blues festival, bike-in movie night and six other things to do this weekend
1. RACE FOR DIGNITY CHALLENGE This event is basically a spin class with a purpose—a purpose other than killer quads, that...
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Food & Drink
The Boardwalk Pub could dominate refreshment sales along Toronto’s eastern beaches
As any visitor to Woodbine Beach knows, there is only one spot nearby to grab a bite: the Boardwalk Pub . If city council approves...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Queen Margherita Pizza
Don’t even say the L word—“ Libretto ”—to John Chetti, co-owner of Queen Margherita Pizza, Toronto's latest wood-oven...
City News
Holy smoke: Toronto church argues that pot is a religious right
Two hippies-cum-spiritual-priests from Toronto are challenging Canada’s drug laws, claiming that members of the Assembly of the...
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s 14 new cafés: independent coffee shops continue citywide takeover
By our count, a whopping 22 new indie cafés opened in Toronto in 2009, but it looks like 2010 will be giving the java scene an...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: What Are You Looking At, an east-end bar with a west-end vibe
Israel Sanchez and Stephan Poquet looked around Leslieville and saw a neighbourhood that has plenty of places to grab a drink, but...
Style
Pier 1 to close Yonge Street location
Pier 1 Imports at Yonge and Shuter will close its doors on March 11, with the teensy Beach store at 1986 Queen Street East left to...
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Food & Drink
How the mighty have fallen: 24 more restaurant closures
Since our last report on restaurant closures in August, the wake of the worst economic storm in decades has forced scores of...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Le Papillon finally alights at Jonathan Ashbridge Park
According to Paul and Danielle Bigué, it was a sign from God that convinced them to convert a 90-year-old house on Eastern Avenue...
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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
Just Listed
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
Just Listed
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
Just Listed
For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment