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The Junction
Food & Drink
Introducing: Playa Cabana Cantina, the Junction’s kitschy new taco bar
Dave Sidhu’ s Playa Cabana Cantina, which opened late last month in the Junction, is Toronto’s latest taco-and-tequila...
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Food & Drink
The Month that Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in December
Opening Closing Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Style
Year in Review: the 15 best street-style looks of 2012
Every two weeks, we go to a different neighbourhood, seeking Toronto’s best-dressed denizens and examining the diverse style...
Food & Drink
Junction Craft Brewing opens a tap room and retail store
Junction Craft Brewing has been operating out of Guelph’s Wellington Brewery for just over a year, but last Thursday the brewery...
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Food & Drink
Holiday Feast Recipe: Vegan rum cookies from Ashley Wittig of Bunner’s
Allergy sufferers regularly face crosstown traffic to stock up on sweets at Bunner’s, Ashley Wittig’s vegan, gluten-free bake...
Style
Street Style: 18 looks at the buyers and sellers at the Junction Flea
The monthly Junction Flea market, which occupied a dusty lot at Dundas and Keele all summer, has decamped to the Great Hall on...
Food & Drink
Playa Cabana is setting up sister Cantina in the Junction
Dave Sidhu, owner of the Annex’s Playa Cabana, will be opening Playa Cantina at 2883 Dundas West in the coming weeks, bringing...
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Style
Great Spaces: five tiny homes that prove tight spaces can be completely comfortable
Toronto homes are getting smaller by the second—250-square-foot units are coming soon to a condo near you. Here, a look at how a...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: The Junction Flea, Ellie Goulding and six other events on our to-do list
1. THE JUNCTION FLEA Presented by Smash and Russet and Empire, this eclectic outdoor market features vintage and kitschy items...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Buskerfest, Fan Expo and six other events on our to-do list
1. SCOTIABANK BUSKERFEST Last year, over a million people descended upon Front Street to see the world’s top buskers, making...
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Real Estate News
Sold: a church-to-condo conversion in the Junction for $1.3 million
With all the talk of condo bubbles, over-the-top bidding wars and failed flips, wading into Toronto’s housing market requires...
City News
A house in the Junction partially collapses, in the ultimate renovation nightmare
A lot of things can go wrong for a Toronto homeowner these days, but this really sucks: a house in the Junction partially...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $1.6 million for a bell tower—yes, a bell tower—in the Junction
ADDRESS: 152 Annette Street, penthouse 402 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Junction Area AGENT: Tim Bosworth, Brad J. Lamb Realty PRICE: $1,562,000...
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Food & Drink
New Junction farmers’ market to launch on Saturday
With the weather officially sweltering, various farmers’ markets that had been hibernating for the winter are now getting...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Camp, a new camping-themed Junction café from the former owner of the Beaver
Megan Whiten, former owner of the Queen West’s The Beaver Café, loves camping. She also loves double-entendres, which is why...
City News
Metrolinx says the Air Rail Link is supposed to be express (so stop asking for more stops)
Just days after the unlikely team of Mike Layton and Frances Nunziata called for more stops on the rail link to Pearson...
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Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in March
It can be hard to keep pace with all the new restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is why every month, we...
City News
Where to Buy Now: Wallace-Emerson, because urban tastemakers and young families are changing the neighbourhood
With a slate of galleries, restaurants, vintage shops and cafés name checked by urban tastemakers, the stretch of Lansdowne...
Real Estate News
A series of shady real estate deals in The Junction points toward mortgage fraud
Lawyer Ron Allan Hatcher has been suspended for his role at the centre of some rather unorthodox home sales in the west end. In...
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Food & Drink
Creemore Springs to open up shop in the empty Duggan’s building?
A casual stroll down Victoria Street this afternoon confirms a rumour we first heard in our comments: Creemore Springs, which is...
Real Estate News
Joel Richardson’s city-authorized mural in the Junction is restored after city-authorized destruction
The story has come full circle: commissioned, decommissioned, re-commissioned, restored. After Joel Richardson’ s mural was...
Style
Philip Sparks is taking his fall/winter 2011 collection on the road, starting at Smash in the Junction
Just in time for fall weather to take hold, Toronto designer and Rogue Fashion Week regular Philip Sparks will launch his first...
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City News
How running became the city’s collective obsession
Last year I turned 30, broke up with my long-term boyfriend and moved into a tiny apartment for one. The domestic vision I’d had...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Locomotive, a new café and sandwich shop in the Junction
Childhood friends Vito Carnovale and Paul Araujo have been conspiring to open their take on the perfect café for the past...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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