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This writer is walking to every single branch of the Toronto Public Library in 10 days
Marci Stepak is doing the 300-kilometre walk as a fundraiser in honour of her late mother, who died of cancer last year
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City News
The Toronto Public Library’s most-borrowed books list has arrived
Romantasy takes the top spot once again
City News
“Encampments are a last resort, but everyone deserves housing”: This priest cared for her unhoused neighbours. Then the city made them leave
Priest Maggie Helwig won a Toronto Public Library award for her book about the encampment on her church’s property in Kensington Market. The next day, the city tore it down
City News
Thousands of people are in a Toronto Public Library queue waiting to borrow one audiobook
It’s giving Ticketmaster
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Real Estate News
All Toronto Public Library branches will soon be open seven days a week
The city’s network of 100 locations is the largest and most used public system on the planet
Culture
“I was a goth in ’90s Toronto, and that scene inspires everything I write”: Mona Awad on her new novel,
We Love You, Bunny
The author talks dark humour, being an outsider in the Ivy League and receiving the CanLit torch from Margaret Atwood
City News
What went down at the 2025 Biblio Bash party
With appearances by Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Heather O’Neill and Mayor Olivia Chow
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Memoir
“I dropped out of high school due to ADHD and depression. Public libraries saved my life—and now I’m getting my master’s degree”
Nancy Dutra found refuge in local libraries, self-teaching her way to a GED, a bachelor’s degree and now graduate school
City News
What went down at the 2024 Biblio Bash party
Authors Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Carley Fortune and Joshua Knelman were in attendance
City News
“We can pack 850 food hampers in two hours”: How the Toronto Public Library turned its branches into food banks
In less than an hour, more than 130 library staff has volunteered to help out
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Culture
Twelve must-read comic books in the Toronto Public Library’s digital collection, as chosen by the city’s top comics artists
Including Miles Morales as
Spider-Man, Shirtless Bear-Fighter
and "
Harry Potter with assassins instead of wizards"
Culture
Ten hidden gems on Kanopy, the Toronto Public Library’s new movie-streaming service
Including
The Look of Silence, Breathless, I Am Not Your Negro
and many more
Life
Inside Drag Queen Storytime, the Toronto library’s fiercest kids’ reading series
RuPaul’s Drag Race
meets
Reading Rainbow
at Toronto's Inside Drag Queen Storytime series
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Life
What books did people want Toronto Public Library to ban?
Another year of people complaining about library books
Life
Thirteen fascinating artifacts about booze and gambling in turn-of-the-century Toronto
Inside the Toronto Reference Library's
Vice and Virtue
exhibition
Culture
The 10 best films on Toronto Public Library’s free Netflix-style streaming service
A David Cronenberg hit, the film that inspired
The Magnificent Seven
and more
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Life
Here are the books and movies people tried to get removed from Toronto’s public libraries last year
What made people angry in 2015?
Culture
A symphonic
Psycho
screening, a Wes Anderson–inspired ball and eight other things to do this Halloween weekend
Things to do instead of (or in addition to) handing out candy
Culture
Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because our new library is a modern Agora
Just south of the Scarborough Civic Centre is the Toronto Public Library’s 100th branch—a capstone for the busiest urban...
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Culture
Drink lots of beer, see a bunch of documentaries and eight other things to do this week
Drink and dance at spring’s hottest beer festival Toronto’s Festival of Beer combines two summer traditions: outdoor booze...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #17. Because the Library is a High-Tech Manufacturing Hub
A 3-D printer has nothing in common with the typical inkjet. The ones used by the TPL cost around $2,400 each, and are about the...
City News
SLIDESHOW: The
Toronto Star
gives a century’s worth of photos to Toronto Public Library
During a press event this morning, Toronto Public Library announced that the Toronto Star has donated its entire archive of...
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Fort York gets the ultimate condo amenity: a flashy new public library
The new Fort York library , which will have its official ribbon-cutting on Thursday, will be Toronto Public Library's 99th...
City News
Someone tried to get
Hop on Pop
banned from Toronto libraries
Toronto Public Library occasionally gets requests from people who want a particular book, movie or audio recording removed from...
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Summer Camp Guide
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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