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Toronto Life Magazine May 2015
City News
Memoir: I went from ultra-Orthodox yeshiva boy to millionaire poker champion
The ancient rabbis had a saying about gamblers. “What crime do dice-players commit?” they asked in the Mishnah. “They do not...
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Shopping
The Find: eight face-saving essentials for the bushy-bearded and baby-faced
After years of less-is-more maintenance, the male preening routine now goes way beyond a bar of soap and a washcloth. Behind...
Real Estate News
The Sell: a savvy couple use social media to sell their Parkdale investment property
The sellers: Jeremy Stewart, a 36-year-old designer and real estate investor, and Tyler Clark Burke, a 41-year-old artist and...
Style
Zen Habitation: a salon don’s tranquil Rosedale retreat
After decades on the move, Ray Civello has finally settled down. The 57-year-old salon founder began his career bouncing between...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: should we keep our kid away from his unvaccinated cousin?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife’s sister is a hard-core anti-vaxxer. We’re expecting in three weeks, and we don’t want her...
City News
Ten things Sarah Gadon can’t live without
She’s the new face of Giorgio Armani Beauty, and her upcoming thriller, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, hits screens later this...
Food & Drink
Spring Fling: six bargain bottles of lesser-known whites
Now’s the time to experiment with fragrant, refreshing, lesser-known whites As the weather starts to warm I turn to...
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Food & Drink
Major Flake: a purist’s list of the city’s 10 most decadent croissants
At Colette , heritage red fife, plus a sprinkle of sesame and fennel seeds, gives the whole wheat croissant a nutty...
Life
The Bay Street Tinder Diaries: Dating in the age of the Internet hookup
Valerie met “The Suit” on Tinder. She called him that because he was the quintessential 30-something Bay Street...
Culture
Comic Book Special: Toronto graphic novelists sketch themselves
Hundreds of graphic novelists will squeeze into the Reference Library on May 9 and 10 for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. We...
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Culture
Comic Book Special: inside Toronto’s best-connected comics workshop
In 2004, a group of illustrators founded RAID Studio in a tiny workshop above a GoodLife Fitness Club on College Street. Now...
City News
The New Dealers: who’s making a killing off medical marijuana
New legislation has rocked the medical marijuana world, taking the traditional grow op from suburban basements to mammoth...
Food & Drink
Piece of cake: a cross-section of the Kochi, Queen West pâtisserie Nadège’s newest creation
The newest mini-gâteau from Nadège's spring collection, the Kochi, is named after the Japanese city and prefecture—a nod to...
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Culture
Ten amazing shots from the Contact Photography Festival
The city-wide Contact Photography Festival returns in May with a smorgasbord of images from 1,500 artists. Here, the 10 most...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: how do we deal with a sneaky real estate agent?
Dear Urban Diplomat, We just sold our semi, and our agent pulled a sneaky move. We got two bids, one higher by about $40,000. Then...
City News
Q&A: Education Minister Liz Sandals on getting the new sex ed curriculum past a mob of angry parents
In September, under your new curriculum, students will learn about anal and oral sex starting in Grade 7. Why is that the...
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Culture
Boys Don’t Cry: Craig Davidson’s testosterone-jacked horror novels examine what it means to be a man
Craig Davidson’s fiction is a kind of literary man cave: in every book, he cracks open a space to examine the guyest of guy...
Shopping
The Find: ten flamboyant finishing touches for modern-day dandies
The new male primping regiment goes way beyond statement socks—it includes enough swank accessories to out-glam Beyoncé. All...
Food & Drink
Hot Seats: online reservation systems were supposed to make scoring a table easier. So much for that
For a guy who books a lot of restaurant reservations, I’ve had extra bad luck. I’ve been laughed at for asking for a table for...
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City News
The Charming Mr. Elder
On any given morning, you might find Michael Elder at one of his favourite hangouts, Caffe Doria or Starbucks in Rosedale. Look...
Life
The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black
The summer I was nine, my teenage cousin Sana came from England to visit my family in Oshawa. He was tall, handsome and...
City News
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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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Great French Fry Mystery: My dogged attempt to solve a baffling fast food whodunit
When an A&W takeout bag appeared on my neighbour’s porch in the middle of the night—followed by another, then another—we became obsessed with finding out who was behind it
Deep Dives
Doctor Strange: The curious life of Elon Musk’s Canadian grandfather
Joshua Haldeman was many things: prairie farmer, chiropractor, conspiracy theorist, thrill-seeking aviator. His wackiest vocation? Leader of a political movement that sought to dismantle democracy
Deep Dives
Becoming El Jefe: The story of Ryan Wedding, Canada’s Olympic snowboarder turned ruthless drug lord
Before Wedding landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list as a high-level associate of El Chapo, he was a bright-eyed kid from Thunder Bay. Inside the rise of one of the world’s most dangerous and powerful cartel leaders
Deep Dives
Big Trouble in Tiny Township: How short-term renters took over cottage country
Weekend ragers are disturbing the peace, locals are mad as hell and town councils are making everything worse
Deep Dives
Save Me From My Screen: How smartphone addiction is ruining our lives
Despite the do-not-disturb settings, time-spent reminders and ritual purging of apps, we’re still hopelessly obsessed with our devices. Dispatches from the digital minimalist movement
Deep Dives
The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
Deep Dives
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
Deep Dives
A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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Leave the city in the city
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This Grande Dame of Lawrence Park is an absolute treasure
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For Sale: 9 Audubon Court
Welcome to 9 Audubon Court, a Mid-Century Modern retreat among the treetops
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For Sale: 500 Wellington St W PH1001
Experience unparalleled luxury in this breathtaking 6,200 sq. ft. penthouse, designed to perfection including a private 2,000 sq. ft. rooftop terrace, complete with a raised glass pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, and unobstructed panoramic city views.