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Michelle Dean: I ♥ N.Y. (Not T.O.)
Dear Toronto: I’d like to say that it’s me, not you, but I’d be lying. It is you. You have no passion, no ambition. You...
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Today in Toronto: David Braid Sextet
David Braid Sextet David Braid shares his classically inflected jazz style with Mike Murley (sax), John MacLeod (trumpet), Gene...
City News
Five things we learned from the New Yorker’s look at Toronto’s cash-for-gold showdown
Over the past year, the heated cash-for-gold feud between Harold Gerstel (a former protege of Cashman Russell Oliver ) and Jack...
Food & Drink
City staff: banning the sale of shark fins pretty much impossible for Toronto
After the City of Brantford banned all foods that included shark fin—an ingredient culled from endangered species and...
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Food & Drink
Eight no-fuss options for a Thanksgiving meal
While the moms (and dads) of Toronto can cook a fine turkey, plenty of chefs have also plumbed the bird’s mysterious...
City News
Les Misérables returns to Toronto—but will Justin Bieber play the lead?
We nearly started to sing in the office when we heard the city’s latest musical theatre news: Les Misérables is coming back in...
Food & Drink
With news of price hikes at Starbucks, we called around to see what indie shops are charging for their coffee
On Tuesday, the Toronto Star reported that Starbucks had raised its prices for coffee and other beverages across the country by...
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City News
Sun News turns literary soft-core porn scandal into Tory election spot
Yesterday, the Toronto Star reported that the official in charge of disciplining troublesome Ontario teachers was moonlighting as...
Food & Drink
Susur Lee to open new spot on the Dundas West foodie mile with his sons
The comings and goings at 777 Dundas Street West sure have been attracting a lot of attention of late. The one-time home of Le...
Food & Drink
Musical kitchen chairs: Fat Duckling Matthew Sullivan is Maléna’s new head chef
Last week we reported that Maléna had lost executive chef Doug Neigel to Mercatto after its head chef Rob Rossi split to open his...
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Style
Introducing: Cutler and Gross, a Yorkville boutique for the bespectacled man and woman
The place: Cutler and Gross, Yorkville’s newest boutique, already has loyal fans among international A-listers (Elton John, for...
The Weekender: Ghosts, David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers and six other items on our to-do list
1. DAVID HOCKNEY’S FRESH FLOWERS Pop artist David Hockney is back in Toronto with his latest exhibit, Fresh Flowers: Drawings on...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can we reclaim our soccer pitch without looking like jerks?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I play a casual game of pickup soccer with a bunch of other late-30s dads on weekends at Bickford Park. For...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: I spotted my under-aged son spotting me at a strip club
Dear Urban Diplomat, Last weekend, my buddies and I were at a strip club when my 17-year-old son and two of his friends walked...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How important is dinner party reciprocity?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I throw top-notch dinner parties: rib-eyes, good wine, fancy cheeses. We have two...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: Café Belong, Elle M’a Dit and Estiatorio Volos
Farmers’ market fine dining at the Brick Works, stylish Greek food downtown and a proper bistro on Baldwin CAFÉ BELONG 550...
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The one thing you should see this week: a star mezzo paired with a brilliant director
This week’s pick: Iphigenia in Tauris at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts We’ve already extolled the virtues of...
City News
Hudak delivers an electoral gift to McGuinty in the form of controversial flyer
Tim Hudak gave the Liberal and NDP campaigns some free advertising yesterday, when he defended a campaign flyer that deploys scare...
City News
Standoff between Bill Blair and Rob Ford now officially more exciting than the provincial election
According to reports in the Toronto Star, Bill Blair seems to be gambling his job on the hopes that Rob Ford will publicly...
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City News
Can a 386-page report on Hazel McCallion’s misbehaviour stop the Hurricane? Probably not
Things aren’t looking great for the Hurricane. As every paper in the city is reporting, a judicial inquiry has found that...
Food & Drink
Following new conviction, raw milkman Michael Schmidt begins hunger strike—again
The saga of raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt continues. Last week the courts overturned their initial verdict, which had found...
Style
Toronto’s second ever Gay Wedding Show to take place on October 16
The State of New York approved same-sex marriage earlier this summer and Ontario passed a similar law back in 2003, yet we...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: The County General, Splendido’s younger sibling on Queen West
When we heard that Splendido co-owners Carlo Catallo and Victor Barry were taking over the Queen West space formerly occupied by...
Culture
VIDEO: Having a curry with Fucked Up in Little India
After watching the music video for Fucked Up’ s “Do You Feed?” it’s hard to believe that more music videos aren’t shot...
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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
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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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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