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Dear Urban Diplomat: I was excluded from my best friend’s wedding shower for having Covid
I had to stay home alone while all my friends partied in an undisclosed location
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I’m sick of cyclists making up their own traffic rules
I recently spotted a biker crossing with pedestrians. Was I wrong to honk?
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I wrong to let my dog pee in a condo garden?
A man leaving the building freaked out at me and my beagle. What should I do if I run into him again?
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My neighbourhood has been overrun with sidewalk patios
CaféTO seemed like a good cause at first. Now, I fear the serenity of my Main Street has been lost forever. What to do?
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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!
City News
Urban Diplomat: My friend is using a fake vaccine passport
What should I do?
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo neighbours are breaking the two-person elevator rule
Should I inform the condo board?
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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
City News
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?
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My boomer dad refuses to wear a mask
Is there a way to get through to him?
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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?
City News
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
City News
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
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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
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it okay to kill an invading raccoon?
I’ve tried everything else
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get my brother to stop eating Chick-fil-A?
He won’t stop raving about it
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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”
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How should I respond to “It’s just vape, bro”?
Should I narc on him?
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"
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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"
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"
City News
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?
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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”
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I boycott my friend’s gender-reveal party?
“I want to celebrate her growing family, but I think these kinds of parties are stupid.”
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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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