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Dear Urban Diplomat: am I a bad person for leaving my newspaper on the subway?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m new to the city, and I read Metro during my morning commute. Am I littering if I leave my used copy on...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what can I do about the never-ending porn shoot next door?
Dear Urban Diplomat, It seems the unit down the hall at my condo has become the world’s busiest porno set. There’s a steady...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: was I wrong to show my new doctor neighbour my rash?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I just moved to the Beach. We had our neighbours over—he’s a banker, she’s a family...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: am I a jerk for skipping the TTC farebox line?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was in the Queen subway station recently and encountered a long lineup, so I did that move where you sneak...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what can I do to ward off my neighbour’s pigeon pals?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I have a neighbour who scatters old bread and bird feed on her driveway for pigeons. While these winged...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what’s an e-cigarette hater to do?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’ve been to three west-end establishments recently—Bambi’s, This End Up and Porzia—where patrons...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I talk my daughter out of being a Sunshine Girl?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My daughter is 19 and desperate to pose as a Sunshine Girl. She keeps threatening to send in her...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: should I rat out my landlord for stealing cable?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live in a ground-floor suite and pay my own utilities, including cable. My landlord lives above me, and we...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: am I a delinquent mom for leaving my six-year-old in a car?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently left my six-year-old son in the car while I ran into a store. The window was down, he was...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: my barista’s first name offends me—what can I do about her?
Dear Urban Diplomat, A barista at my local Starbucks, near Yonge and Bloor, is a Persian woman named Nazi, and she wears a name...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: my wife wants to give out toothbrushes on Halloween—should she?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife is a dentist and wants to give out toothbrushes instead of candy for Halloween. I told her this is...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: can I get my lefty tenants’ Olivia Chow sign off my lawn?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I rent the upper floor of my semi to a young couple and was dismayed to find an Olivia Chow sign on my front...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I keep my neighbours’ kids off our soon-to-be frozen pond?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My partner and I just moved from Lawrence Park to Bradford. Our new place is on a huge lot with a small...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: can’t sidewalk-hogging joggers save it for the side streets?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was window-shopping on Queen West last weekend, when a neon-clad sprinter came bounding along and bumped my...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: can I ask my neighbours to cover up their naked kid?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My neighbour’s little boy is four, and he’s been running around our street in his birthday suit all...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I get my cottage-hogging brother to play fair?
Dear Urban Diplomat, A few years ago, my brother and I inherited the family cottage, on Lake of the Woods near Kenora. He and his...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what do I have to do to get my neighbour to stop being such a butthead?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live and work just steps from Pape and Danforth. One of the business owners smokes on his stoop near the...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what’s the proper dinner-guest etiquette for Ramadan?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I were asked to a dinner party by some neighbours. The invite said 7 p.m., but it will be during...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I get my boyfriend off my sports team?
Dear Urban Diplomat, After dating this great guy for three months, I invited him to join my ultimate team. Turns out he’s the...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: what do I do about that unscooped doo-doo?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live kitty-corner to St. James Park. There’s a mobility scooter–bound senior in my building who leaves...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: should I tell my new husband that his teen daughter’s on the Pill?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently married a man who has a 15-year-old daughter, and I accidentally discovered she’s on the...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I tell my neighbours to cut their axe-throwing out?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My neanderthal neighbours—three 20-something roommates—have caught on to the recreational axe-throwing...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: is it wrong to let a big box store undercharge me?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I were at a big box store looking for office chairs recently. They only had floor models of...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: is it okay to demand weird things from restaurant servers?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently went to the Octagon steak house with a friend, who asked that her rib-eye be cooked in milk and...
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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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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