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Is it legal to hang out naked on your boat in Toronto Harbour?
Dear Urban Decoder: Is it legal to hang out naked on your boat in Toronto Harbour?—Marc Pettigrew, High Park It’s been 12...
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You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (*)
Now in his 40s, Adam Sandler is in a deep, widely acknowledged creative funk (correspondingly, he’s gotten meatier and...
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What’s with the City of Vancouver sign in the Rogers building?
Dear Urban Decoder: What’s with the City of Vancouver sign in the Rogers building?—Clio Watson, The Beach If you’ve ever...
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Sex and the City (**)
Sex and the City used to be a good show—a fact that faded further from view during its last few seasons, and of which the movie...
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (**)
It takes Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) approximately 10 minutes to escape from Guantanamo Bay, during which time they...
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Semi-Pro (**)
Any one of us could write a treatment for a new Will Ferrell movie: set it in the ’70s or early ’80s, give him a daggy haircut...
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A Year at Les Fougères
I lost touch with Charles Part and his wife, Jennifer Warren-Part, when they sold Loons, their restaurant on the beachy end of...
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Coast to Coast
A huge treat this week was the world premiere of a feature-length movie, The Islands Project , written and directed by Michael...
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Chinook thaw
Just when I thought the little single-prop Beaver sea plane was going to crash into the rocky pine forest that lined the shores, I...
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Ionian Again
On Saturday night at about 1:00 a.m., as we were leaving the excellent Maistra restaurant on the beach at Akharavi, the surf...
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Now It Can Be Told
The third meal alluded to in last week’s post was an extraordinary progressive dinner hosted by Stephen Leckie in celebration of...
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The Last King of Scotland
Fox Search Light is gonna have a hell of a time selling The Last King of Scotland to a wide audience. The first dramatic feature...
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Good and Evil
“Put some pictures into your blog,” instruct the powers that be. “Brighten it up a bit!” What next—music? But they have...
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Still in Corfu
This morning we were woken by a peal of thunder so long and loud it might have been announcing the end of the world. I opened the...
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Corfu Report
From Holland to Greece for a stay at our old house in the mountains of Corfu, carrying on with renovations that have preoccupied...
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Brangelina Descends on TIFF
Well, yesterday was the day, as the hordes of press and general well-wishers descended on the scorching crucible that is Nathan...
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Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Last Wednesday night, I attended the red carpet gala screening of Érik Canuel’s Bon Cop Bad Cop at the Paramount. This is the...
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At the beach with Rob Lowe and The Passenger
Over the last five days, I’ve been working on one of the only active sets currently sweating it out in production-deprived...
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The Passion of Kal-El
“The Son becomes the Father, and the Father becomes the Son,” Marlon Brando’s iconic Jor-El intones at the start of the...
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Down in the Valley
You’re a 17 year-old Lolita living in the San Fernando Valley and life sucks and it’s spring break and there’s nothing to...
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Twin Fin, Salmon Revival, Chateau de Beaucastel
It’s a rule of thumb (the purple thumb) that when the hype is about labels, demographics and price points, the wine in the...
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Streetcars often have a lot of sand on the floor behind the driver
Dear Urban Decoder: Streetcars often have a lot of sand on the floor behind the driver. What gives?— Connie...
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While walking along the beach recently, I saw some young surfers out on the lake being pulled along by giant kites
While walking along the beach recently, I saw some young surfers out on the lake being pulled along by giant kites. Please...
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Toronto is often described as la ville reine (the Queen City) by newscasters on Radio- Canada
Dear Urban Decoder: Toronto is often described as la ville reine (the Queen City) by newscasters on Radio-Canada. Where does the...
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
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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