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Dear Urban Diplomat: Someone posted an embarrassing video of me on YouTube. Can I ask them to remove it?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I wore my Boston Bruins jersey to a Jays game recently and some drunk guy threw a hot dog at me. I freaked...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Neighbourhood dogs love peeing on my front lawn. Is it rude to complain?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My house is on a corner lot that’s very popular with dogs. Thankfully, most owners pick up number twos, but...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it weird to hit a nude beach without going naked?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Some of my U of T law classmates invited me to Hanlan’s Point on the Island for some European-style...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour holds a yard sale every weekend. Is there anything I can do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My neighbour holds a yard sale every weekend. She prices everything way too high and won’t negotiate, like...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How should I respond to overzealous street fundraisers?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was shopping on Queen West recently and was accosted in three separate instances by those relentlessly...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do we tell our neighbour that we can hear him watching porn?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I live in a semi, and every night around midnight our neighbour, a single guy in his...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do you start a conversation without asking “What do you do?”
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a graphic designer, and my husband is a lawyer. He recently made partner at his firm, and we’ve been...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I rat out parents who abuse the tennis club child care service?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a member at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club, where they offer a child care service called Kids Klub, the...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Are stores allowed to ban customers from taking photos?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was recently at a high-end industrial design store in the Distillery District and snapped a pic of a funky...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I stop my neighbours from renting out their front yards as parking spots?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I moved near the Gay Village last year and noticed many of my neighbours renting out their front yards as...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I tell my friends that they can’t come to my cottage every weekend?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I recently bought a cottage. It’s a charming two-bedroom with a bunkie near...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I stop guys from pestering me when I’m jogging?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a 31-year-old woman, and I jog every day in and around Little Portugal. The older men in the...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Our neighbours’ barbecue fills our backyard with unpleasant smoke. Can we complain?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I have new neighbours who love to barbecue, which is fine, except that it’s almost always...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I confront parents who bring a wailing newborn to an upscale restaurant?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I went to Toca at the Ritz-Carlton for our anniversary dinner. Around 9 p.m., a newborn-toting...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I found $100 in the back of a cab. What should I do with it?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I got into a cab a few days ago outside First Canadian Place and found a $100 bill on the floor. I quickly...
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Dear Wedding Diplomat: Too many guests RSVP’d for our destination wedding. What can we do?
Dear Wedding Diplomat, My fiancé and I are having a destination wedding in Cancún in April. We reserved a villa for 40 guests...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I tell my best friend that his on-court tantrums won’t fly at my tennis club?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m the head of my tennis club’s membership committee, and my best friend is angling to get...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour roots through my recycling bin. Can I ask her to stop?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My neighbour is a total eco-Nazi. She leads an enviro group and hosts a regular Skype chat on carbon...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do we tell our otherwise perfect babysitter that drinking on the job isn’t cool?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I discovered the parenting Holy Grail: a babysitter who’s punctual, affordable and amazing with...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I stop rude drivers from budging at a lane-closure queue?
Dear Urban Diplomat, The left lane is closed about halfway along the off-ramp from the Bayview extension to River Street. Yet...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I obligated to provide a gluten-free option at my kid’s birthday party?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Last week we sent out e-vites for our son’s 10th birthday. The RSVPs started coming back, and in two...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Are bidding wars on rental condos socially acceptable?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I went to a viewing of a rental condo recently—a great place with an office, a fireplace, a gym downstairs...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I be embarrassed that my husband stockpiles free food from the airport lounge?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I recently bought a chalet at Mont-Tremblant and have been flying Porter back and forth. He is...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I find the skateboarder memorial outside my building upsetting. What can I do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, A skateboarder was killed by a cab outside my building, and six months later, the sidewalk memorial is still...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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Guelph is having a moment
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A rare opportunity to own a custom-built masterpiece in the heart of Lawrence Park beautifully designed by Gray Smith and Arca Design for the most discerning buyer