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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: I caught my boss watching porn. What now?
"He's been extremely awkward with me"
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get my oblivious boss to stop chowing down in front of our fasting Muslim coworker?
"One of my coworkers observes Ramadan, but our boss keeps eating right next to her"
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I drop my lousy golf partner?
"He must have lied about his handicap, because he's terrible!"
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it wrong to ditch our ugly wedding gift?
"My husband's aunt gave us a hideous two-foot-tall sculpture"
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it wrong to invest in environmentally questionable companies?
"Many years ago, my business partner and I invested in an energy company"
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I jump the queue to deplane faster?
"Am I a horrible person for wanting to blast past families that take forever?"
Life
Is it okay to cycle past open streetcar doors?
The Urban Diplomat explains
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Life
Do I have to split living expenses with my high-earning boyfriend?
The Urban Diplomat explains
Life
What can I do about a friend who doesn’t use my preferred pronouns?
The Urban Diplomat explains
Life
How do I get the staff at my start-up to stop playing Ping-Pong and get to work?
The Urban Diplomat explains
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Life
Can I unfriend my Trump-supporting cousin on Facebook?
The Urban Diplomat explains
Life
Is it okay for me to refuse to rent my spare room to guys?
The Urban Diplomat explains
City News
How do I convince the TTC that it’s their fault I couldn’t pay my fare?
The Urban Diplomat explains
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City News
How do I get my brother’s girlfriend to start paying for all the hot water she uses?
The Urban Diplomat explains
Life
How do I deal with cyclists who hate it when I park my delivery truck in bike lanes?
The Urban Diplomat explains
City News
Can I make my snoring boyfriend sleep on the fold-out couch?
The Urban Diplomat explains
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get my neighbour to clean all the dog poop off his balcony?
"Whenever we go out for a smoke, the view and stench are atrocious"
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I report the guy who hit me with his car door to the police?
"I didn’t break any bones, but my $700 bike was badly damaged"
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I have to feed organic food to my kid’s friend?
"I bought everyone treats from our local bakery. When his dad found out, he refused to set up another play date for weeks"
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I a terrible person if I don’t chip in for a colleague’s baby gift?
"One of my colleagues asked us to contribute to a baby gift for a woman who doesn’t even work here anymore"
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get my neighbours to stop feeding feral cats?
"The felines have taken over my backyard"
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I yell at parents for letting their kids block my view at concerts?
"The whole thing ended up ruining the concert for me"
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I tell my girlfriend that I don’t want her paying for all my meals?
"I’m not looking for a sugar mama"
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I publicly shame a homophobic Leafs fan?
"We want to hold him accountable, but we’re not sure whether to post the footage online"
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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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