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Margaret Atwood gets in Twitter fight with Sue-Ann Levy over the TTC, of all things
Yesterday, the city’s never-ending transit saga sparked a bit of a Twitter tiff between Margaret Atwood and Toronto Sun...
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Jonathan Kay responds to Gawker’s taunts over his Toronto Life feature “Almost Rich”
When you argue that a household income of $196,000 is “positively middle class,” as Jonathan Kay did in an essay from Toronto...
Food & Drink
Chef Grant Soto is having a grand old time skewering Toronto foodies—but who is he?
Here’s what we do know about “ Chef Grant Soto”: he claims he’s bitten Mark McEwan on the shoulder , he says he’s got...
City News
Russell Crowe thinks members of the Academy are a bunch of jerks, shows fondness for Ryan Gosling
Russell Crowe— actor, bad musician and sometimes surly New Zealander—has something in common with the rabid Ryan Gosling fan...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I help my friend get her identity back now that she’s had a baby?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Since my friend had her baby last year, she’s lost her identity. Her Twitter profile features a picture of...
Style
Drake appropriates Toronto’s logo, while Twitter borrows Ontario’s slogan
Some savvy marketers at San Francisco–based Twitter have accompanied its new redesign (nicknamed “Fly”) with the slogan...
City News
Nicholas Hune-Brown: How to die on Facebook
When you’re dead, your Facebook page becomes a permanent digital gravestone, and your family and friends (and quite possibly...
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Paulina Gretzky to flaunt her Great Ones on Twitter no longer
Paulina Gretzky, daughter of Wayne, triggered lamentations from 24,000 followers this weekend when she shut down her racy Twitter...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Jamie Oliver declares last night’s meal at Buca the best he’s had all year
The once Naked Chef was in town last night for a speaking engagement at Roy Thomson Hall to promote Jamie Oliver's Food...
City News
The Q&A: Why the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs Janice Gross Stein won’t be our friend on Facebook
One of the essays in your new book argues that privacy has become an endangered species. Can you explain? Threats to our privacy...
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City News
Dalton McGuinty’s hands finally give the provincial election campaign the excitement we’ve been waiting for
Dalton McGuinty’ s erratic movements and hand gestures at last night’s provincial election debate should provide good...
City News
My Digital Sabbath: how one writer learned to stop checking Facebook and love life offline
I can’t say specifically which fabulous new technology made me decide I needed a break from all fabulous new technologies. For...
City News
Margaret Atwood meets Doug Ford in person; universe refuses to explode
If you’re tired of reading stories about big idea man Doug Ford and literary nobody Margaret Atwood , you can thank Councillor...
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Six city hall observers worth following on Twitter in order to keep up with today’s executive committee meeting at city hall
Mayor Rob Ford and his executive committee are in the early stages of what we assume is the political equivalent of a root...
Culture
SPOTTED: Every famous person ever (well, almost) at Grey Goose Soho House last night
Apparently, David Cronenberg knows how to throw a party: pretty much every celebrity currently in town for TIFF attended the...
City News
Twitter doesn’t like Rob Ford (and we’re guessing he doesn’t love Twitter either)
The Toronto Star is reporting that jabs at Rob Ford on Twitter and other social media sites rose significantly in the wake of his...
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Reaction roundup: city hall reporters journeyed to Etobicoke to take in Ford Fest—then, they tweeted about it
Last Friday, Jonathan Goldsbie tweeted, “When we reach the ‘1500 Royal York’ bus stop, the bus driver announces ‘Stop for...
City News
EARTHQUAKE! Once again, Toronto hit by a lunchtime summer tremor
If the hundreds of reports on Twitter are to be believed (and the reports of about half of the Toronto Life office), Toronto just...
City News
Christie Blatchford is unimpressed with the media’s reaction to Layton’s death; frankly, we’re rather unimpressed with her reaction
Apparently, National Post columnist Christie Blatchford is ticked that Jack Layton’ s death has become a “thoroughly public...
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NDP leader Jack Layton passes away at 61
We’re deeply saddened to learn that federal NDP leader Jack Layton lost his second battle with cancer this morning, according to...
City News
Cell service on the subway: good news may be coming in the fall
More than a year has passed since the TTC announced it was going to try to bring cellphone service to the subway. Back...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Toronto scribes—and readers—react to Toronto Life’s September issue cover story, “Exodus to the Burbs”
In September’s cover story, long-time Toronto Life contributor Philip Preville explores the idea that Toronto is a hostile place...
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Could the London riots happen in Toronto? The Star’s Christopher Hume says yes
Aside from the obvious, it’s difficult to know what, exactly, to say about the riots in London. But it’s on the top of...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it okay to announce on Twitter that a friend came out of the closet?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m 30 years old, and I recently came out of the closet to a few friends and my parents. I was still...
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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
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!”
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