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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I stop rude drivers from budging at a lane-closure queue?
Dear Urban Diplomat, The left lane is closed about halfway along the off-ramp from the Bayview extension to River Street. Yet...
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Food & Drink
Must-Try: Karelia Kitchen’s twist on the charcuterie plate
The smokehouse platter at Karelia, the city’s only real Scandinavian restaurant, is a refreshing departure from the standard...
Culture
Current Obsession: Downton Abbey spoofs and Tumblrs
The third season of pop period drama Downton Abbey has nearly finished its belated North American run—in less than two...
Food & Drink
Friday Night Bites: tables for two at The Harbord Room, Farmhouse Tavern and F’Amelia
It’s 4 p.m. on Friday, and you don’t have a dinner reservation. Still, there’s no need to fret (or waste your night waiting...
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Food & Drink
GALLERY: 10 of the world’s most over-the-top fast foods, in honour of the new Kentucky Chicken Rice
KFC, the culinary innovator that launched the infamous Double Down in 2010, introduced the Kentucky Chicken Rice to Japan this...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Rob Ford befriends an owl and reporters get excited
Rob Ford visited the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show yesterday, where he showed off his well-honed fishing skills, fired a gun and got...
Style
Street Style: Queen West’s shopkeepers show edgy layers and how to pull off a toque
Queen West grows more upscale every year, but the neighbourhood denizens have maintained a decidedly downtown sense of style:...
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Food & Drink
Eight nutrient-rich Toronto juices for juice cleanses and detoxes
Toronto is in the midst of a juice boom. New cafés are serving nutrient-jacked elixirs to help you get your herbivore glow...
Today in Toronto: CIBC LunarFest, Lady Gaga and more
CIBC LunarFest The festival of contemporary Asian arts and culture helps attendees slither into the Year of the Snake with...
Food & Drink
See what Canadian icons like Justin Bieber and the BlackBerry look like as doughnuts
Fresh off its Ryan Gosling mug PR coup, Tim Hortons created a Double Down-like creation on Tuesday featuring a Timbit inside a...
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City News
Current Obsession: punk rocker Patti Smith pays tribute to her dead heroes in a new photo exhibition
When the New York singer-songwriter Patti Smith hit the American music scene in the mid-’70s, there was no one quite like...
Food & Drink
The Dish Power Rankings: The Valentine’s madness edition
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
Today in Toronto: A Craigslist Cantata, The Book Lover’s Ball and more
Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata This musical by Vancouver singer- composer Veda Hill and CBC host Bill...
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Food & Drink
GALLERY: Chantecler launches its new tasting menu
Chantecler announced in December that it was dropping its à-la-carte menu and expanding its popular lettuce wrap Sundays to rest...
City News
Three Toronto property giants write a letter opposing a downtown casino (and embarrassing Paul Godfrey)
Only a week after three former Toronto mayors penned a letter opposing the development of a casino in Toronto, three of the...
Food & Drink
Captain John’s may soon set sail for Hamilton
The long and sad story of the demise of Captain John’s Seafood Restaurant may soon reach an unexpected end: a Hamilton...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of February 8–10
In this edition of The Weekender: a Chinese New Year festival, the queen of Italian-American cuisine and three more things to do...
Shopping
The Find: six tortoiseshell frames that are perfectly bookish
Like Atticus Finch or an off-screen Johnny Depp, tortoiseshell frames are bookish, distinguished and a little bit...
Food & Drink
Five over-the-top Valentine’s Day Toronto hotel packages
Every year, Toronto hotels dream up outrageously indulgent Valentine’s Day stay-cations. Champagne, chocolate and roses usually...
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Style
What to wear on Valentine’s Day: three slick looks for the fellas
We understand why guys feel stressed about Valentine’s Day. They’re expected to find the perfect gift, plan a romantic night...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Black Rabbit, a new family-friendly café in Bloor West Village
Name: Black Rabbit Fresh Food Café Neighbourhood: Bloor West Village Contact info: 2312 Bloor...
Food & Drink
Five romantic Toronto bars for cocktails, conversation and hardcore canoodling
1. Cocktail Bar At Dundas West’s jazz-humming speakeasy, cocktails by owner-bartender Jen Agg—an eye-glazing barrel-aged...
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Food & Drink
Fidel Gastro’s Matt Basile takes over Prague European Kitchen’s space on Queen
Matt Basile, the man behind the popular pop-up and food truck Fidel Gastro’s, has moved into 638 Queen Street West, the space...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Are bidding wars on rental condos socially acceptable?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I went to a viewing of a rental condo recently—a great place with an office, a fireplace, a gym downstairs...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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