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Dear Urban Diplomat: What should I do when my neighbour throws an obnoxiously loud house party?
Dear Urban Diplomat, A new couple on my block dropped by recently to introduce themselves. They said they were planning a...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it sexist to hold an office holiday party in a VIP box at a Raptors game?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I am one of two women in an office of men, most of whom are diehard sports fans. The holiday party this year...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I offer my streetcar seat without offending anyone?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently offered my streetcar seat to a woman I was convinced was a mom-to-be, then smiled cherubically at...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I ask the host of a party to open the wine I brought?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I brought back an excellent champagne from Paris and was waiting for a special occasion to open it. I decided...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it rude to order dessert when there’s a line of people waiting for a table?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I recently waited for two hours to get a table at a new restaurant at Dundas and...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I go barefoot on the treadmill at the gym?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a physiotherapist, and I recently started running barefoot on the treadmill at my gym. To my...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My sister gave me opera tickets. Am I obligated to take her as my date?
Dear Urban Diplomat, For my 40th birthday, my sister bought me season’s tickets to the Canadian Opera Company—two seats in the...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I forgive my date for being a litterbug?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently went on a date with a cute girl. After the movie, she suggested we go to McDonald’s. I avoid...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Are cabbies allowed refuse to drive me because I’m carrying my dog?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I read in the Sun about a Muslim cabbie who rejected a passenger carrying a pet, and I thought it was a...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Do television crews have the right to stop traffic on my street?
Dear Urban Diplomat, An episode of Nikita is being filmed outside my condo. Every morning for the last few days, the crew has...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I let my negligent neighbour supervise my son?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My six-year-old went to Cherry Beach with his best friend and his best friend’s mom. She let the boys go...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Who gets dibs on the Moss Park diamond—ball or cricket players?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My friends and I went to play pickup baseball at Moss Park recently, and we encountered a crew of cricket...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I stop my bridesmaids from organizing a flash mob at my wedding?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I got word that my bridesmaids are organizing a surprise 50-person aisle dance for my wedding. Flash mobs...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do we tell our friends that we’re not going to work (for free) on their new home any longer?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Our friends bought their first house for $100K over their budget, and it needs a ton of work. My husband is a...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbour is a peeper. How do I make him stop?
Dear Urban Diplomat, The houses on my street are close together, and my kitchen looks directly into my neighbours’. I regularly...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: can I lodge a complaint when fellow restaurant patrons start photographing their food?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I were enjoying our 35-year anniversary at Scaramouche, until the young couple at the table next...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I’m staunchly against the wave at Toronto Blue Jays games
Dear Urban Diplomat, I hate it when people do the wave at Jays games. I’m a long-time ticket holder, and this year, a group of...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbours use our back alley for more than just access
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m sick and tired of my neighbours using the back alley like it’s an extension of their property. Their...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: One of my fellow condo-dwellers is putting on a peep show
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live on the 10th floor of a condo tower that overlooks the Gardiner. I drive out past the building on my...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: are restaurants allowed to refuse us a doggy bag?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I recently ate at Acadia, a new restaurant on Clinton Street. The meal was great, but when we...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I wasn’t even tipsy, yet my friend insisted I was too drunk to drive. Who should apologize?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I went to a friend’s dinner party last weekend and drank two beers over four hours. When I got up to...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: What can we do about our semi-detached neighbours poor taste in exterior paint?
Dear Urban Diplomat, An eccentric couple just moved in to the other half of our semi. All was fine until they started to paint...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Do you need to give a standing ovation in Toronto even when one isn’t deserved?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I just moved to Toronto from London, England, and I’ve noticed that nearly every theatre production here...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: The local vagrant is plucking bottles from inside our gate. Should I call the cops?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I built a porch at the front of our house, and we moved our recycling bins to the back. The guy...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Best New Restaurants
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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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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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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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