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Urban Diplomat: Can we tell our neighbours to stop smoking—for the sake of our baby?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I have detected the smell of cigarette smoke coming through the shared wall of our...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can you slap your friends with invoices for a fun weekend at the cottage?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I invited a crew of friends and their kids to my cottage last weekend. They brought snacks and lunches, but I...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can your boss force you to wear a degrading uniform?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently got a job at a certain over-the-top sports bar that requires its female staff to wear tight tops...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it okay to announce on Twitter that a friend came out of the closet?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m 30 years old, and I recently came out of the closet to a few friends and my parents. I was still...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I entitled to an email telling me that I didn’t get the job?
Dear Urban Diplomat, As part of a recent job application, I had to go through three interviews, submit a 1,000-word proposal and...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: is a Summerlicious meal suitable for a first date?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Is it poor form to take a woman out for a Summerlicious meal on a first date? —Penny-pinching...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: is there any way to save face after acting a drunken fool in front of my boss?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My company has season’s tickets for Toronto FC. A few clients cancelled, so I scored some seats for my...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: am I evil for banning my kid’s friends, just because they might have lice?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently helped screen for lice at my daughter’s school, a process that involved an army of moms donning...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I politely tell my cyclist co-worker about his reeking shirt?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My cubicle-mate has started cycling to work from Etobicoke—a ride that leaves him smelling less than daisy...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: when an open house visitor is rude, what’s a seller to do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m selling my condo without a real estate agent, and I recently hosted my first open house. I steeled...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: when naming a baby, should tradition trump trends?
Dear Urban Diplomat, We’re expecting a baby boy this spring, and my husband and I agreed to name him Alexander, after our...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: is it OK to dump dog waste in neighbours’ green bins?
Dear Urban Diplomat, We keep our green bin on the front porch, and a dog walker has taken to depositing his pooch’s freshly...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: is it wrong for a vegan to pontificate at the zoo?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a vegan mom with strong environmental ethics. But my eight-year-old has been begging, literally for...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I deliver a snow shovelling etiquette lesson to my delinquent neighbours ?
Dear Urban Diplomat, After a snowfall, I shovel the sidewalk in front of my house fairly early in the morning. I usually do my...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I say no to philanthropic colleagues who invite me to $1,000-a-plate dinners?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I have several philanthropic colleagues who regularly invite me to attend their $1,000-plus-a-plate...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: please provide some winter wear etiquette for those enormous puffy coats that take up half the streetcar
Dear Urban Diplomat, It seems like puffy coats with oversized fur-fringed hoods are all the rage again this season. I understand...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: can I hit on my personal trainer?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Is it appropriate to hit on my trainer at the YMCA, or would that be considered some sort of harassment...
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Urban Diplomat: I’m sorry that I spilled my latte on my co-worker, but do I really have to pay this $50 dry cleaning bill?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was crammed onto the subway with my co-worker the other morning, and I accidentally bumped his latte with...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what can I do about fighting neighbours that just won’t shut up?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live in a condo, and the woman in the unit neighbouring mine has a nasty habit of screaming at her...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I need to tell my house guests about bedbugs?
Dear Urban Diplomat, In a couple of weeks, I’m hosting an engagement party for my daughter, and 75 people are expected. Some are...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get rid of hipsters who just take up space on the Trinity Bellwoods tennis courts?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I play tennis at Trinity Bellwoods Park, near my house, and I’m sick of hipsters ironically doinking the...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how can I relocate nearby drug addicts while I sell my Moss Park condo?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Is there anything I can do to relocate the throng of drug addicts that has congregated on the corner of my...
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Urban Diplomat: Do I have to booze it up to get a job at a Bay Street law firm?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m articling at one of the big Bay Street law firms. The other students and associates go out and drink a...
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Urban Diplomat: what to do when a cyclist is breaking the law with a toddler in tow
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was cycling behind a father with a toddler in a rear bike seat, and he was weaving in and out of...
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’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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