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The city’s World Cup condoms are ready
They're funny. And free!
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City News
Toronto’s outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease is up to 12 cases
The update marks an increase of three, up from last week's reported nine cases
City News
Toronto Public Health has confirmed nine cases of Legionnaires’ disease
But risk to the public is low, according to the city health agency
City News
Toronto Public Health has confirmed two cases of a new mpox variant
These are the first cases of the new strain to be identified within Ontario
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City News
Toronto will distribute 500,000 free condoms for the World Cup
Enjoy your soccer-fan trysts, but remember to use protection
Life
“Before the pandemic we had 50 people on staff. Now we’re up to 500”: What it’s like to work as a Covid contact tracer
Mahad Nur became interested in the spread of disease when he contracted malaria as a child in Tanzania. Now he spends his days tracking down Covid cases
Life
“The virus is always outsmarting us”: A Q&A with Omar Ozaldin, Toronto’s chief contact tracer
"We continue to call every positive patient daily, for at least 14 days. And their contacts as well"
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City News
Q&A: Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s medical officer of health, on dealing with Doug Ford’s cuts
Measles is back, anti-vaxxers are on the march, but she’s still optimistic
City News
Q&A: Toronto’s chief medical officer on supervised injection sites, and why drug leniency may be good policy
"These are life-saving interventions, and there is evidence to support that"
Life
Q&A: Dr. Michael Gardam, infectious disease expert and Zika virus skeptic
Our Six in the Six interview with the University Health Network's director of infection prevention
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: what’s an e-cigarette hater to do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’ve been to three west-end establishments recently—Bambi’s, This End Up and Porzia—where patrons...
City News
The Vaccine Truthers: why parents shun life-saving shots
A new generation of parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids
City News
Toronto’s city-branded condoms are here, and they’re amazing
Ahead of this month's WorldPride celebrations, Toronto Public Health is making good on its promise to release a batch of...
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City News
New city website tells you which nursing homes to avoid if you don’t want norovirus
In the past, Torontonians have had to guess whether or not it's safe to visit grandma or grandpa at the nursing home, never...
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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
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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