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Editor’s Letter (September 2013): what makes a great neighbourhood?
Almost two years ago, one of my neighbours proposed we have a block party. We’d close the road to traffic and all hang out...
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Real Estate News
The Best Places to Live in the City: A (Mostly) Scientific Ranking of All 140 Neighbourhoods in Toronto
In Toronto, we develop stubborn loyalties to where we live. We grow familiar with a couple of blocks and identify as west- or...
Style
Best of the City 2013: a scrupulous wardrobe audit from a veteran personal stylist
Renee Kaylor, owner of couture consignment boutique Rescue Vintage, is a veteran personal stylist and the city’s most skilled in...
City News
A Cultural Revolution: the AGO’s Ai Weiwei exhibition proves why the Chinese artist is such a threat
Ai Weiwei is the most famous artist on the planet, and like many who have held the title before (van Gogh, Picasso), his personal...
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Real Estate News
My Suburbia: 11 former city dwellers explain why everything’s better in the burbs
Tucked away in some of Toronto’s biggest burbs are pockets that combine urban cool and small-town charm. And the houses are...
Style
Best of the City 2013: eco-friendly sunglasses that also look great
Drift sunglasses are handmade in Chicago using sustainable American hardwood (certified by the venerable Forest Stewardship...
City News
Memoir: what I learned from working the graveyard shift at the Rogers Centre
On my first night, I picked up a beer-soaked five-dollar bill and shoved it into my pocket. Some of my co-workers were high; some...
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City News
Best of the City 2013: a league for urban lumberjacks yearning to throw axes
The quirkiest tenant on Sterling Road’s warehouse row is the Backyard Axe-Throwing League, which has become a heraldic...
Style
Street Style: tattoos both beautiful and badass in Kensington Market
Kensington Market and tattoo enthusiasts have a shared creed: both communities prize individuality, artistry and a rebel spirit...
Style
Great Spaces: five garage conversions to swoon over
Torontonians don’t like compromise. We want to live in the city, and we also want guest rooms, art studios and dens. The answer?...
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City News
Last Holyday: the highs and lows of Doug Holyday’s career in city politics
City hall will be a different place without Doug Holyday. After 28 years in municipal politics, the deputy mayor joins the...
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of August 9–11
In this edition of The Weekender, the annual Taste of the Danforth festival, a rare breed dog show and three more things to do in...
Style
Best of the City 2013: slip-on leisure shoes that are way more stylish than Toms
Rivieras has been churning out these perforated slip-ons for years, selling them mainly to a clientele of laid-back Europeans and...
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Real Estate News
Condo Showdown: five waterfront condos for under $500,000
No wonder Toronto’s feverish condo construction is at its most intense on the borders of Lake Ontario: the waterfront boasts...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour holds a yard sale every weekend. Is there anything I can do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My neighbour holds a yard sale every weekend. She prices everything way too high and won’t negotiate, like...
Shopping
The Find: the best end-of-season deals on designer clothes
If you have the patience to sift through jumbled clearance racks, late summer offers the kind of deals that prompt victory dances...
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Style
Best of the City 2013: a handbag that’s designed with the precision of a German sports car
The Porsche Design store opened about a year ago in Yorkville and has since become a destination for over-the-top...
Style
Store Guide: Ferragamo brings tasteful opulence to Yorkdale Mall
Name: Salvatore Ferragamo Sells: Women's and men's ready to...
City News
Reaction Roundup: what protestors, police and pundits are saying about Sammy Yatim’s death
Early Saturday morning, 18-year-old Sammy Yatim brandished a knife on the Dundas West streetcar, ordering everyone to get off. A...
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Real Estate News
The Chase: two sisters dive into the income-property game with a rowhouse in Riverside
The buyers: Thuyen Nguyen, the 24-year-old general manager of Pacific Junction Hotel, a Corktown bar, and her sister, Hoa...
City News
Toronto according to Drake: in which we assess the hip-hop star’s hometown obsession
Drake likes Toronto. A lot. He raps about it. Talks about it. Etches its landmarks into his flesh. That’s mostly a good thing:...
Style
Street Style: bikinis, bling and an abundance of skin at Cabana Pool Bar
Cabana Pool Bar’ s turquoise pool, curtained cabanas and heart-pounding decibels have lured thousands of oiled-up PYTs—and one...
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Style
Store Guide: Likely General, a new Roncesvalles shop selling handmade gifts, accessories and home goods
Name: Likely General Sells: Home decor goods, grooming products, food products, accessories, jewellery, magazines, kids’ toys...
City News
Toronto Public Health takes a stand against Jenny McCarthy
Toronto’s public health department is all riled up over The View's decision to hire former Playmate and anti-vaccination...
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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
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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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