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Sidewalk needs to work with Toronto’s tech ecosystem
Toronto is not only the fastest-growing city in Canada and the U.S., but also the fastest-growing technology hub. All three levels...
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City News
The Quayside project is a gift to Toronto’s public realm
In recent decades, Toronto has become a remarkably heterogenous city, with more than half of its residents born in another...
City News
Q&A: Stephen Diamond, the new chair of Waterfront Toronto, on managing the Sidewalk Labs file
He says Toronto has a duty to listen to new city-building ideas
City News
How much do Toronto’s new foreign-born CEOs know about the city?
A Toronto trivia quiz for the city's new crop of executive imports
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City News
Why the Gardiner East decision, whatever it is, won’t be “evidence based”
Pity the 5,200 souls who drive the eastern stretch of the Gardiner during morning rush hour. They are getting a good whipping in...
Real Estate News
What the Toronto Islands ferry terminal might look like in a few years, if Waterfront Toronto gets its way
What it is: An undulating wooden structure designed by KPMB Architects, West 8 and Greenberg Associates as a replacement for the...
Real Estate News
A first look at what Daniels Corporation wants to build where the Guvernment used to be
What it is: Four waterfront towers east of Lower Jarvis Street, the tallest of which would top out at 48 storeys. (This is where...
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City News
Popular Science
says Corktown Common is among this year’s “best of what’s new”
The revitalization of Toronto's West Don Lands is tied to Toronto's Pan Am Games, which don't happen until 2015—but it seems as...
City News
How much did all the sand on Sugar Beach cost?
—The cost of buying, shipping and installing all the sand—1,500 cubic metres' worth—on Sugar Beach , according to a new...
City News
Rob Ford, resignation-refusal expert, calls on someone else to resign
Nobody in Toronto politics has ignored more requests to resign than Rob Ford , but that hasn't stopped him from making the same...
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City News
Rob Ford makes a ridiculous claim about Sugar Beach, then refuses to retract it
On Friday, Rob Ford said something so blatantly misleading that it has since blown up into yet another a mini-scandal. In an...
City News
Waterfront Toronto asks for more money, is forced to talk about pink umbrellas instead
This is how Toronto's news cycle works sometimes: Waterfront Toronto makes the case for continued investment in the city's...
City News
Free idea: do something like this to the Hearn Generating Station
Last week, Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners (architectural firms sure have a lot of partners) released renderings of the...
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City News
Doug Ford revives his war on Waterfront Toronto in new “Ford Nation” YouTube videos
Remember when Doug Ford tried to scrap Waterfront Toronto ’s carefully drafted plan for Toronto's port lands so he could fill...
City News
The city is leaning towards tearing down part of the Gardiner Expressway
The city has been trying to figure out what to do with the Gardiner Expressway for 30 years , but now, with the prospect of "...
City News
The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
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Real Estate News
A 13-acre, billion-dollar condo and office development is coming to the easterly waterfront
Despite signs that Toronto’s condo market is softening, two major developers are partnering to build a billion-dollar...
Real Estate News
The Toronto Star’s old parking lot could soon house Canada’s two tallest condo towers
The plans for a large-scale development at 1 Yonge Street, currently home to a set of low-rise buildings and the Toronto Star’ s...
Food & Drink
Captain John asks his fans to help bail him out
In the latest episode of the ongoing saga of Captain John’s Seafood Restaurant, owner John Letnik has made the increasingly...
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City News
Reason to Love Toronto: because we build parks under our expressways
Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday drew the ire of urbanites during a recent council debate when he said that downtown was no place to...
City News
Toronto now has a park in an underpass (and Rob Ford hopped on a jungle gym to celebrate)
Rob Ford usually makes news for acting belligerent or defensive, so it was nice to see news agencies covering his enthusiastic...
City News
Port Lands planning is delayed another three months (surprise, surprise)
Amid all the Ferris wheel and monorail talk last fall, one thing council could agree on was that the Port Lands revamp should be...
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City News
The weirdest mayoralty ever—the inside story of Rob Ford’s city hall
On Newstalk 1010, the sly strains of the Hollies hit “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” offered the first clue. Then...
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The Wall Street Journal discovers T.O.’s waterfront development and its “whimsically designed boardwalks”
As luck would have it, when the Wall Street Journal scoped out Toronto’s waterfront, it seems it either didn’t notice or...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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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