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

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
City

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?
City

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?
City

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
City

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?
Life

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

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

Dear Urban Diplomat: Help! My roommate’s kombucha lab is swallowing our apartment
Life

Dear Urban Diplomat: Help! My roommate’s kombucha lab is swallowing our apartment

"I came back from a vacation to find a concoction brewing in the bathtub"

Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I tell my naked-yoga-loving neighbours to put on some Lululemons?
Life

Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I tell my naked-yoga-loving neighbours to put on some Lululemons?

"Every Sunday morning, without fail, I’m greeted by their bits when I open my blinds"

Dear Urban Diplomat: I told my landlord I was a non-smoker when I moved in, but now I want to light up an occasional joint. Can I?
City

Dear Urban Diplomat: I told my landlord I was a non-smoker when I moved in, but now I want to light up an occasional joint. Can I?

Is he allowed to ban me from partaking in the occasional toke?

Dear Urban Diplomat: Help! My neighbour’s kid has some serious Fortnite rage
City

Dear Urban Diplomat: Help! My neighbour’s kid has some serious Fortnite rage

“Not only does it wake me up, but it’s teaching my much younger kids words I’d prefer they not hear yet”

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“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid
Memoir

“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid

The miserable truth about online school
City

The miserable truth about online school

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”
City

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef
Memoir

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever
Memoir

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH
Memoir

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”
Life

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”

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Toronto Life’s top 10 longreads of 2020

They survived Covid, but they&#8217;re not okay
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They survived Covid, but they’re not okay

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice
City

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice

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