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Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour’s hideous garden suite is blocking my lake view
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour’s hideous garden suite is blocking my lake view

Is there anything I can do about it? Please help!

Urban Diplomat: My friend is using a fake vaccine passport
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Urban Diplomat: My friend is using a fake vaccine passport

What should I do?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo neighbours are breaking the two-person elevator rule
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo neighbours are breaking the two-person elevator rule

Should I inform the condo board?

Dear Urban Diplomat: Is my landlord allowed to store junk in my backyard?
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Is my landlord allowed to store junk in my backyard?

I'm sick of looking at his rusty old barbecue

Dear Urban Diplomat: My influencer friend has been travelling during the pandemic
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My influencer friend has been travelling during the pandemic

Should I try to convince her to put her travel plans on hold indefinitely?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My boomer dad refuses to wear a mask
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My boomer dad refuses to wear a mask

Is there a way to get through to him?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My favourite barista always wears his mask below his nose. What should I do?
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My favourite barista always wears his mask below his nose. What should I do?

Should I school him on mask etiquette or simply switch coffee shops?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My aunt left me some valuable self-portraits in her will. Can I sell them?
City

Dear Urban Diplomat: My aunt left me some valuable self-portraits in her will. Can I sell them?

My sister thinks they should stay in the family

Dear Urban Diplomat: My kid’s hockey coach dropped an F-bomb in a post-game speech. Is that acceptable behaviour?
City

Dear Urban Diplomat: My kid’s hockey coach dropped an F-bomb in a post-game speech. Is that acceptable behaviour?

I want to make a complaint, but I don’t want my kid to seem like a snitch

Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I have to pay the babysitter minimum wage when he’s just eating my food and watching my Netflix?
City

Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I have to pay the babysitter minimum wage when he’s just eating my food and watching my Netflix?

I think a small honorarium should be plenty

Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it okay to kill an invading raccoon?
City

Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it okay to kill an invading raccoon?

I’ve tried everything else

Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get my brother to stop eating Chick-fil-A?
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get my brother to stop eating Chick-fil-A?

He won’t stop raving about it

Dear Urban Diplomat: Help! My cleaning lady ate my pot edible and freaked out
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Help! My cleaning lady ate my pot edible and freaked out

“My husband thinks we should fire her”

Dear Urban Diplomat: How should I respond to “It’s just vape, bro”?
Life

Dear Urban Diplomat: How should I respond to “It’s just vape, bro”?

Should I narc on him?

Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I persuade my husband to get his vaccinations?
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I persuade my husband to get his vaccinations?

"I don't want to play nurse if he gets mumps"

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Private School Directory

The Independent and Private School Directory Spring 2022
Private Schools

The Independent and Private School Directory Spring 2022

Big Stories

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Real Estate

This family built their off-grid dream house for less than $1,000

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The true story of the $46-million heist that shocked the crypto world

Tales of love and resilience from Little Ukraine
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Tales of love and resilience from Little Ukraine

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Toronto’s best new restaurants 2022

This man would like your attention
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This man would like your attention

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Toronto’s first family of cheese

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City

Twenty-five reasons to love Toronto now

Inside a high-stakes flight from a crumbling country
Life

Inside a high-stakes flight from a crumbling country

The twisted mind of a serial romance scammer
City

The twisted mind of a serial romance scammer

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City

What should the post-pandemic workplace look like?

How director Domee Shi turned Toronto into a pastel Pixar wonderland
Culture

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Memoir

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City

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City

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City

Behind the scenes of an $11-billion subway war

Dispatches from the weirdest university year ever
Life

Dispatches from the weirdest university year ever

<em>Toronto Life&#8217;</em>s top longreads of 2021
City

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City

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The winter hater&#8217;s guide to loving winter
City

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Great Spaces

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Style

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Best Dressed

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