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Food & Drink
Five over-the-top Valentine’s Day Toronto hotel packages
Every year, Toronto hotels dream up outrageously indulgent Valentine’s Day stay-cations. Champagne, chocolate and roses usually...
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Style
What to wear on Valentine’s Day: three slick looks for the fellas
We understand why guys feel stressed about Valentine’s Day. They’re expected to find the perfect gift, plan a romantic night...
Style
What to wear on Valentine’s Day: three stylish outfits for women
On Valentine’s Day restaurants that are normally packed with plaid and jeans are suddenly full of suits and cocktail...
Food & Drink
10 most romantic Toronto restaurants—good for everything from popping the question to illicit affairs
Whether you’re hoping to impress a new flame or celebrate with a long-time lover, the right restaurant can be the difference...
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Shopping
Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Him: 6 gift ideas for guys, from light-hearted to titillating
Buying a Valentine’s Day present is hard. The gift needs to not only appeal to your guy, but also match the tone of your...
Shopping
Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Her: 6 gift ideas, from low-key to unabashedly romantic
Each year around February 14, the streets seem to be full of confused-looking men clutching bouquets of red roses or La Senza...
Food & Drink
The Toronto Underground Market launches Sips and Nibbles, a Valentine’s Day–themed spinoff
The Toronto Underground Market can be a slightly shaggy affair. Participants tend to be outfitted for the weather at the...
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Food & Drink
Council decides Woodlot can have its (tiny) patio, but Campagnolo and others have more work to do
The Valentine’s Day meeting of the Toronto and East York Community Council has come and gone, but the patio massacre we were...
Food & Drink
Forgot to make a Valentine’s Day reservation? Here are 10 restaurants that still have space
Hoping to take your sweetheart to Splendido, Scarpetta or Auberge du Pommier for Valentine’s Day? Well sorry, it’s too...
Food & Drink
Councillors say there’s hope for patios at Campagnolo, Woodlot and more
Last week, we pointed out that city staff had recommended that patio permit applications for Campagnolo and Woodlot (among others)...
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Food & Drink
War on fun update: patio applications for Campagnolo, Woodlot and more up for Valentine’s Day rejection
Summer—a.k.a. patio season—is still months away, but that isn’t stopping the Toronto and East York Community Council from...
Food & Drink
Q&A with Susur Lee: the chef discusses Lee Lounge’s new dishes, lower prices and new flavours
On Monday night, we found ourselves at the highly anticipated Valentine's Day opening of Lee Lounge , the new restaurant from...
City News
Bautista and the Blue Jays postpone their multi-million-dollar date
The Toronto Blue Jays and Jose Bautista had a romantic Valentine’s Day date perfectly planned. They’d fly to Arizona to escape...
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City News
Ford brothers send flowers to all the women on Toronto city council
Hey, it’s Valentine’s Day: in a move that shows that rivals can still be kind even in a nasty political atmosphere, mayor Rob...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Heart, Nature Unleashed and six other can’t-miss events
1. HEART Remember when rock star sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson sent John McCain’s campaign a cease-and-desist letter after he...
Food & Drink
What really happened at Mildred’s Temple Kitchen on Valentine’s Day
So exactly what (or who) went down over the Valentine’s Day weekend at Mildred’s Temple Kitchen after last week’s media...
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Style
Toronto Star takes on skimpy underwear
We interrupt Valentine's Day gift hunters with this important announcement: the thong is over. Or at least that's what the Star is...
Shopping
Super Shopper: the ultimate aphrodisiacs for V Day
In the latest installment of Super Shopper, Alanna Davey tracks down the ultimate lace dress, raspberry-rose truffles and other...
Food & Drink
Bathroom sex at Mildred’s: the gift that keeps on giving (to the media)
Forget the Olympics—this week, Canada is known as the country that lets patrons get it on in restaurant washrooms. News of the...
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Food & Drink
Let’s tryst again: Mildred’s Temple Kitchen encouraging sex in its washrooms
Hoping to spice things up for Valentine’s Day, or perhaps to attract a different breed of customer (the Larry Craig – George...
Food & Drink
Where to eat during Winterlicious round two
As we reported yesterday, Winterlicious is being extended (by two weeks, from February 16 to 28) for the first time. This...
Food & Drink
Sexy Valentine’s menu, the end of business lunch etiquette, burgers become recession-proof
Valentine’s Day is usually a godsend for florists, chocolatiers and restaurants across the city. But not this year. [ Globe and...
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Food & Drink
Winterlicious extended for two weeks
Yes, that's right. The City of Toronto has decided to extend the festival by 14 days; it was originally scheduled to end...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
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
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