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A developer is proposing a public park for the rooftop of Holt Renfrew
Property firm Morguard revealed plans in May for Canada’s tallest condo tower, an 83-story, 600-unit giant on Bloor West’s...
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Real Estate Cheat Sheet: demand for offices, condo bidding wars and the echo boom’s influence
For the past six months, local real estate chatter revolved around Toronto’s cooling housing market. This week presented a...
Real Estate News
Aging apartment buildings are becoming more and more like condos
Toronto’s forest of condo towers is now influencing decor schemes at decades-old apartment buildings across the GTA, according...
Real Estate News
The Trump Tower may be in trouble with the Ontario Securities Commission
Already embroiled in a legal skirmish with buyers hoping to get their deposits back, Talon International, the developer of...
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The Trump Tower’s developer tries to subdue angry buyers—by suing them
Trouble keeps cropping up for Talon International, the developer of Toronto’s Trump International Hotel and Tower. First, sales...
City News
Editor’s Letter (December 2012): under the influence
David Mirvish’s plan to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre and build three 80-plus-storey Frank Gehry–designed condo...
City News
The Trump Tower rains glass from the sky (again)
Another day, another pane of glass falling from the sky, this time from the Trump Tower at Bay and Adelaide. Yesterday around 4...
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Real Estate News
A look at the best and worst of Frank Gehry’s past mega-projects
When David Mirvish and Frank Gehry announced their major King West redevelopment plans earlier this month, Mirvish said the pair...
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Introducing: Toronto’s new Shangri-La Hotel
The Shangri-La Hotel at University and Adelaide opened its doors on Friday, ready just in time for TIFF (well, nearly in...
Real Estate News
Crafty Americans are trying to woo corporate headquarters away from Toronto
Office space in Toronto is in high demand—and is therefore expensive—which means some companies may succumb to the pull of...
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Condo gossip: three towers could be coming to the Toronto Star’s parking lot
Up to three condo towers could soon sprout from the parking lot of the Toronto Star building at Yonge and Queens Quay, according...
City News
Faulty towers: who’s to blame for condoland’s falling glass, leaky walls and multi-million-dollar lawsuits
Jan Gandhi and Omar Jabri share a love of big-city life: the people, the architecture, the fashion, the logarithmic bustle of...
Real Estate News
Office tower gossip: another mega-building could be coming to the financial district
With Toronto’s commercial real estate market on a serious roll, there are whispers about another tower planned for the downtown...
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A few wealthy Torontonians will soon be able to live in a bridge in the sky
Given the ubiquity of condo construction in Toronto, a new development is generally nothing to gawk at. That is, unless it...
City News
Police find three crystal meth labs in a Scarborough condo tower
Add meth-producing neighbours to the list of condo owners’ worries—police discovered three crystal meth labs in a Scarborough...
Real Estate News
Architecture buffs hate the plans for the condo-fication of the Sutton Place Hotel
Like another storied Toronto hotel, the recently shuttered Sutton Place will soon be a condo tower. This weekend, Lanterra...
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What the city is doing to prevent crappy condo balconies from shattering
The city wants to be more proactive about all the glass-falling-from-the-sky mishaps like this, this and those eleven other...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 1, because boom times are back
Toronto is the rare city experiencing a construction frenzy (185 high-rises, to New York’s 80), a hiring spree (in the last...
City News
Downtown condo + gravity = glass raining down on a limo
The latest downtown tower to shed glass is Boutique Condo, at Simcoe Street near Richmond. Last night, a pane broke off the 25th...
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If the city fights your condo tower proposal, just make it bigger
When King Financial Holdings proposed a 39-storey, 201-unit condo tower along the restaurant-heavy strip near King and Peter this...
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Condo backlash: St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association scorns a proposal for two tall towers
St. Lawrence’s residents, neighbourhood association and councillor are all rallying against several development proposals for...
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The tallest condo in the country could be coming to Bloor Street
Property firm Morguard is pushing to build Canada’s tallest condo building on top of the Holt Renfrew at Bloor and Yonge, and...
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City News
The sky is falling! (Or just bits of airplane and glass)
GTA-residents had a couple more reasons to fear the heavens yesterday (in addition to the concrete chunks of highway and condo...
Real Estate News
Tower power: Scotia Plaza sells for a record $1.27 billion
In a much-hyped sale, the red granite Scotiabank tower at King and Bay has sold for $1.27-billion, which is —by far— the...
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Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
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The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand