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A bike advocate and a worried business owner face off over the Bloor Street bike lanes
The temporary Bloor bike lanes are on their way to becoming permanent, but not everyone is pleased
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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"
City News
How to bike through the winter in comfort and style
Secret no. 4 to making the most of the city this chilly season
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I have to slow down when pedestrians wander into the bike lane?
"When I swerved around him, I accidentally nicked him with the end of my handlebar"
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: what should I do about an annoying e-biker?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Every day on my commute along Eastern Avenue, this guy on an electric bike zooms past my car, sometimes in...
City News
Hudson’s Bay Centre has pretty much been stealing people’s bikes
A communications consultant named Lisa Ferguson says she thought her bike had been stolen on Wednesday when she returned to the...
City News
Everybody hates Adelaide Street’s new bike lane
The official opening of Adelaide Street's new separated bike lane should have been a moment worth celebrating for Toronto's...
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City News
Goodbye Bixi, hello “Bike Share Toronto”
The long-awaited changing of the bike-share guard is going to be happening on Tuesday, April 1, when Bixi Toronto officially...
City News
Bixi has filed for bankruptcy (but Toronto’s bike stations should be fine)
After years of financial struggles, Bixi has finally gone and done it. The Montreal Gazette reports that the bike-share service's...
City News
Bixi Toronto isn’t shutting down after all because toilets
Bixi Toronto , the bike-share service whose demise once seemed virtually assured (largely due to the financial missteps of its...
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City News
Bixi Toronto is having major financial problems
Despite attracting thousands of subscribers, Bixi Toronto is still having trouble covering its operating costs two years in. The...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a Fred Perry cycling shirt designed by a Tour de France champ
With taxis, streetcar tracks, cars and rogue pedestrians to contend with, biking in Toronto can feel like a high-stakes road...
City News
Philip Preville: The case for making bike helmets mandatory
Driving without a seat belt is considered absurdly reckless. Why isn’t cycling without a helmet? Any cyclist who’s ever been...
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City News
The List: 10 things physician, undersea explorer and author Joe MacInnis can’t live without
1 | My customized hard hat I co-led an expedition to the Titanic in 1991. Everyone on board needed a hard hat, so I decided as...
Style
Street Style: 27 looks at the city on bikes (and other self-propelled vehicles)
There’s no question that Toronto is a city of cyclists (no matter what Rob Ford has to say about it). Still, thoroughfares...
City News
The coroner’s office wants Ontario to pass a mandatory bike helmet law
Ontario’s coroner’s office has revived the idea of a mandatory helmet law for all cyclists, rather than just riders younger...
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City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 10, because the city is safer than ever
There were 45 homicides in Toronto last year. It’s a grim group: a 28-year-old man was gunned down at a family barbecue; a...
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Giro d’Italia winner rode a bike made by Toronto-based company Cervélo SA
Last weekend, Ryder Hesjedal won the Giro d’Italia road cycling race, and he rode a Toronto brand’s bicycle to win...
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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City News
Torontonians pay higher Bixi fees than...well, everyone
Living in Toronto has been getting pricier and pricier, and the city’s rap for being expensive extends to its Bixi...
City News
How did Bixi do in its first year in Toronto?
Like proud parents, we can’t believe Bixi, the bike rental service and bona fide reason to love Toronto, is a year old already...
City News
Is Rob Ford waging a war on bikes?
It’s always fun when news agencies outside of Toronto pay attention to the city’s political scene, but this BBC clip about...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Lilly’s Lunches, a new bike-based brown bag delivery service
Lilly’s Lunches is a new one-woman and one-bike operation run entirely by Elizabeth Callahan. After growing weary with her day...
Style
Igor Kenk’s stolen bicycles will ride again (high schoolers are making sure of it)
Ever wonder what happened to the collection of stolen bicycles belonging (well, sort of) to bike-hoarder extraordinaire Igor Kenk?...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
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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
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!”
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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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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