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Check out BIXI Toronto’s 80 downtown bike locations on one interactive map
BIXI is slated to launch in Toronto on May 3 with 1,000 bikes spread out over 80 stations. While we’re all for bringing the...
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Food & Drink
Six places to watch this Friday’s Royal Wedding in style
The Royal Wedding is more than just another way for Canadians to express their fondness for the motherland; Kate and Will are also...
Food & Drink
The one thing you should see this week: the tumultuous career of our 18th prime minister, in opera form
This week’s pick: Mulroney: The Opera Mulroney: The Opera does not have the most sophisticated libretto (to wit: “I have the...
Style
Young and in love? The Drake announces its indie wedding show
Thinking of a backyard wedding, an Ontario cottage-country destination or a living room reception? With Canada’s Bridal Show...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 3: Aykroyd’s verboten vodka
Was it just us, or was the level of cooking on last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada miles ahead of the safe, bland fare from...
City News
Ford and friends want a municipal by-election in Downsview. Get ready for a “referendum” on the mayor’s term so far
Last week, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that Maria Augimeri ’s narrow Ward 9 victory (89 votes!) in last October’s...
City News
Yoga to become an Olympic sport? At one Toronto event, it seems like a real possibility
Competitive yoga may seem like the ultimate oxymoron, but according to the Toronto Star, it’s all too real . The “sport”...
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Today in Toronto: Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot Take a motherless child with moves, a miner’s strike and Elton John, and you’ll get this movie turned musical...
Food & Drink
What’s For Dinner? co-host Ken Kostick dies at 57
Chef and television personality Ken Kostick passed away in Toronto on Thursday following complications from acute...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Ortolan, a tiny new restaurant in Bloordale
With a name nodding to a notorious old-world culinary delicacy, Ortolan quietly opened its doors two weeks ago in the space...
City News
Orange crush: Canada’s sudden NDP love-in leaves Toronto cold
Remember when the writ dropped and the national press spent 48 hours wondering if NDP leader Jack Layton could stand up to the...
Style
Jeanne Beker fights for content as she assumes post as Toronto Star contributing editor
Jeanne Beker , arguably Toronto’s most famous fashion personality, has joined the Toronto Star ’s stable of writers. In her...
Style
Canadian investors attempt to save a failing American Apparel
American Apparel has been in a lot of hot water in the past, from their CEO’s shenanigans (if you can call alleged sexual...
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Style
Want to learn how to, um, walk? Take Stacey McKenzie’s Walk This Way Workshop in Toronto
In case putting one leg in front of the other and moving in a forward motion is a foreign concept, Stacey McKenzie, former...
Style
Ron White opens a 3,000-square-foot flagship store in Yorkdale Mall
Yorkdale Mall announced another massive makeover at the beginning of this year, and on April 23, Canadian shoe retailer Ron White...
Culture
Roger Mooking—of Kultura, Nyood and Bass is Base fame—to take on Michael Symon on Iron Chef America
It seems MC Mystic is back. No, Toronto chef Roger Mooking isn’t reprising his role as rapper and percussionist in...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: am I evil for banning my kid’s friends, just because they might have lice?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently helped screen for lice at my daughter’s school, a process that involved an army of moms donning...
City News
Why selling off Toronto’s public housing is a bad idea
The Toronto Community Housing scandal has given rise to fears that Rob Ford will impose a U.S.-style rent voucher system uditors...
Food & Drink
It’s official: Duggan’s Brewery has served its last pint
Not long ago, it seemed as though brew and gastropubs were on the rise in Toronto, but a couple of recent closures are giving us...
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City News
Election sleeper issue #73: who will appoint Canada’s next Supreme Court judges?
Whoever wins the next election is going to have a bunch of things to deal with over the next [insert]...
City News
The Scene: the best of Anna Dello Russo and Tommy Ton (and some hot guests, too)
Everyone already assumed it would be difficult to compete with Anna Dello Russo at the The Bay’s private launch of When Tommy...
Real Estate News
Astral Media finally admits that its sidewalk rubbish bins are garbage
When the city started rolling out its new streetside garbage cans four years ago, we were taken with them in a “huh, that’s...
Food & Drink
Obikà, the first Canadian outpost of the Italian mozzarella bar, to open downtown in May
Obikà Mozzarella Bar , a new Italian restaurant opening at Brookfield Place in mid-May, is aiming squarely at a downtown lunch...
City News
Anna Dello Russo likes Toronto, trashy clothes, Disney, sparkles and garbage
We weren’t sure what to expect when granted the opportunity to participate in a group interview of Anna Dello Russo and Tommy...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World
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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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