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"The university's response has been pathetic": Scenes from the pro-Palestine encampment at U of T

“The university’s response has been pathetic”: Scenes from the pro-Palestine encampment at U of T

Protesters have been living in tents on the University of Toronto campus for over a week, with no intention of packing up until their demands are met. It’s ignited a clash with the school’s administration over the bounds of private property, the university’s financial and academic ties to Israel, and the limits of free speech

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This PhD student makes $40,160 a year. How does she spend it?

This PhD student makes $40,160 a year. How does she spend it?

“I don’t keep alcohol at home—it’s too expensive”

“Students feel like their generation has been shortchanged": How U of T engineering dean Christopher Yip is filling the education deficit

“Students feel like their generation has been shortchanged”: How U of T engineering dean Christopher Yip is filling the education deficit

Making the leap from high school to university is harder than ever this year

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“To some people, I’m not what a doctor is supposed to look like”: U of T's med school valedictorian shares her story

“To some people, I’m not what a doctor is supposed to look like”: U of T’s med school valedictorian shares her story

“Maybe a young person who looks like me is watching my address and thinking that she would like to be a doctor one day”

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“We had 190 volunteers in two days”: How U of T med students are helping health care workers with groceries and child care

“We had 190 volunteers in two days”: How U of T med students are helping health care workers with groceries and child care

“Our teachers, mentors and professors are all doctors and health care workers: we realized they were going to be on the front lines for this crisis”

This new art exhibit tackles the history of monstrosity

This new art exhibit tackles the history of monstrosity

The University of Toronto's De Monstris exhibit examines the role monsters played in European history

I had to decide whether to take my academic career to Canada. Donald Trump made it an easy choice

I had to decide whether to take my academic career to Canada. Donald Trump made it an easy choice

A California-born sociology professor moves north

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Here's what happened when DaiLo chef Nick Liu cooked Chinese food from a 119-year-old menu

Here’s what happened when DaiLo chef Nick Liu cooked Chinese food from a 119-year-old menu

Using inscrutable descriptions like “nut fruit,” “white plant” and “rice bird”

Some takeaways from Bernie Sanders' speech at the University of Toronto

Some takeaways from Bernie Sanders’ speech at the University of Toronto

The Vermont senator was in town

U of T freshmen from America explain why they decided to leave the States

U of T freshmen from America explain why they decided to leave the States

It wasn't all about Donald Trump

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Inside 1 Spadina, the stunning new home of U of T's architecture school

Inside 1 Spadina, the stunning new home of U of T’s architecture school

A sneak peek inside the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design

Q&A: Jaime Black, the artist hanging red dresses around U of T campus

Q&A: Jaime Black, the artist hanging red dresses around U of T campus

Métis artist Jaime Black's tribute to Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women

A professor's refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns, and the vicious campus war that followed

A professor’s refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns, and the vicious campus war that followed

Free-speech advocates say he’s combating the tyranny of political correctness. His critics say he’s a privileged, trans-phobic bigot who must be stopped

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Kent Monkman reimagines Canada's colonial history with sex and drag queens

Kent Monkman reimagines Canada’s colonial history with sex and drag queens

Seven stunning works from Kent Monkman's sesquicentennial art show

Q&A: Michelle Murphy, the U of T professor who’s racing to preserve climate-change data before Donald Trump takes office

The logistics of saving the U.S. government from itself

Inside U of T's new Jackman Law Building, with a three-floor atrium and some of the best views on campus

Inside U of T’s new Jackman Law Building, with a three-floor atrium and some of the best views on campus

What's behind that striking limestone wall

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Real Weddings 2016: Inside a Midsummer Night's Dream -inspired affair at the Hart House

Real Weddings 2016: Inside a Midsummer Night’s Dream-inspired affair at the Hart House

Two artsy types host a stately bash at the University of Toronto

A 28-year-old woman finds out her Tinder match is a serial dater

A 28-year-old woman finds out her Tinder match is a serial dater

A true story from the frontiers of Toronto's app-enabled dating scene

"Working on myself," and other things University of Toronto grads are planning on doing next

“Working on myself,” and other things University of Toronto grads are planning on doing next

Fifteen new grads share their plans for post-student life

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Street Style: the 20 best looks from 2015

Street Style: the 20 best looks from 2015

Our favourite outfits spotted on everyday pedestrians

Street Style: U of T students look fashionable (and comfortable) on campus

Street Style: U of T students look fashionable (and comfortable) on campus

Fifteen people who embody the school's preppy-yet-boho vibe

Here's what developers want to build at the corner of College and Beverley

Here’s what developers want to build at the corner of College and Beverley

What it is: A 33-storey, 356-unit condo tower that would replace the existing office building on the southeast corner of College...

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How the University of Toronto wants to make Robarts Library a little less imposing

How the University of Toronto wants to make Robarts Library a little less imposing

What it is: Robarts Common, a glassy, zinc-plated, five-storey addition to the west side of the University of Toronto's Robarts...

Magical Mystery Tour: a map of Toronto's fictional murders

Magical Mystery Tour: a map of Toronto’s fictional murders

Dead bodies are turning up all over the fictional cityscape. We’ve mapped out the grisliest murders in 10 titles Dead Politician...

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Private School Guide

The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025

The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025

Big Stories

Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king

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

Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show, Small Achievable Goals

Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show, Small Achievable Goals

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?

Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm

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

Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian

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

Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield

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

The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation

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?

Almost Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom

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

"I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial"

“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

Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025

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

The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own

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

The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024

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

Toronto's 25 Rising Stars of 2024

Toronto’s 25 Rising Stars of 2024

Our annual list of the up-and-comers shaping our city and the world

Quality Trash: Meet director Ron Oliver, Hallmark’s king of schmaltz

Quality Trash: Meet director Ron Oliver, Hallmark’s king of schmaltz

Over two decades and dozens of made-for-TV Christmas films, Oliver has become the Hallmark Channel’s most prolific, flamboyant and unapologetically sappy director

Small Space, Big Ambition: Twenty Torontonians embracing tiny living with small-footprint homes and space-saving hacks

Small Space, Big Ambition: Twenty Torontonians embracing tiny living with small-footprint homes and space-saving hacks

From laneway homes to garden suites to houseboats, these creative living spaces offer style, affordability and comfort in a city where land is in short supply

"I spent eight months locked up in an Ontario reform school. The abuse I endured almost destroyed me"

“I spent eight months locked up in an Ontario reform school. The abuse I endured almost destroyed me”

For 50 years, the Ontario government incarcerated kids accused of infractions as minor as truancy, drinking or shoplifting in so-called training schools

The Mensch: Inside the culinary empire of Chinese-food king David Schwartz

The Mensch: Inside the culinary empire of Chinese-food king David Schwartz

The chef behind Mimi and Sunnys Chinese spent years mastering the cuisine of a culture not his own. Now, he’s risking it all to return to his roots

Meeting Mr. Right: What a Pierre Poilievre election win could mean for Toronto

Meeting Mr. Right: What a Pierre Poilievre election win could mean for Toronto

Anti-Trudeau sentiment has officially breached the GTA. But what does the alternative look like? Here, 12 prognosticators weigh in on the impact of a Poilievre government for Canada’s largest city

Ontario's health care system is in chaos, and these doctors and patients are fed up

Ontario’s health care system is in chaos, and these doctors and patients are fed up

Half a million Torontonians are without a primary care physician. The search is maddening, exhausting and often futile. Dispatches from the front lines

Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club

Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club

For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted

The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life

The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life

A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind

Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners

Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners

Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars

The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood

The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood

Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the overdose crisis rages on

Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD

Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD

Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it’s all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower

Cost of Living

This content creator makes $130,000 a year. How does she spend it?

This content creator makes $130,000 a year. How does she spend it?

“Last year, I didn’t use the subway once. I prefer Uber”

This business analyst makes $103,000 a year. How does she spend it?

This business analyst makes $103,000 a year. How does she spend it?

“I spent $300 on plants last year”

This filmmaker makes $150,000 a year. How does he spend it?

This filmmaker makes $150,000 a year. How does he spend it?

“Since moving downtown, I pay more for rent but less for gas, so it evens out”

"My world tour doesn't feel complete without a Toronto show": This Swiftie has spent over $5,200 on the Eras Tour

“My world tour doesn’t feel complete without a Toronto show”: This Swiftie has spent over $5,200 on the Eras Tour

Expenses include: a pre-concert blowout, a DIY replica of Taylor Swift’s beaded bodysuit and two round trips to Europe

House of the Week

House of the Week: $2.9 million for an East York white-brick with a front-row seat to Taylor Creek Park

House of the Week: $2.9 million for an East York white-brick with a front-row seat to Taylor Creek Park

The 3,000-square-foot property also comes with intelligent toilets, a makeup station, a front lawn designed to attract pollinators and a forest in the backyard

House of the Week: $20 million for a ravine home in Rosedale with a roof that's actually alive

House of the Week: $20 million for a ravine home in Rosedale with a roof that’s actually alive

The 7,000-square-foot forest gem comes with an absurdly long kitchen island, a glass elevator, MoMA-like walls and sci-fi cabinets

House of the Week: $2 million for a Scarborough detached with a gold-plated LED wall

House of the Week: $2 million for a Scarborough detached with a gold-plated LED wall

The 3,700-square-foot property also comes with an iron-lined mezzanine, fluted everything, skylights and a basement that’s its own unit

House of the Week: $2.5 million for a Victorian with two wet bars right across from Alexandra Park

House of the Week: $2.5 million for a Victorian with two wet bars right across from Alexandra Park

The 1,800-square-foot property also comes with a crystalline main floor, a jewel box closet, an EV charger and a basement with rental potential

House of the Week: $6 million for a Georgian looker in Forest Hill built by an HGTV staple

House of the Week: $6 million for a Georgian looker in Forest Hill built by an HGTV staple

The 4,300-square-foot property sandwiched between Bathurst and the Beltline also comes with a five-car driveway, a nanny suite, a fancy sound system and garden suite potential