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How Markham Stouffville Hospital is improving access to child and adolescent mental health care
A new inpatient mental health unit for children and youth will provide community-level support at Oak Valley Health’s Markham Stouffville Hospital
Created by
Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation
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Life
We planned to adopt a toddler, but ended up with a 17-year-old
"I thought, 'This could be our daughter'"
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"
Life
My stillborn son’s birthday was the worst day of my life
"Throughout my labour, I was hoping that I was asleep, that none of this was really happening"
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Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I get my neighbour to stop dressing her toddler in skinny jeans?
"His jeans are so tight that he can’t even play properly"
Life
When my next-door neighbour discovered she couldn’t have children, I offered to carry them for her
"I felt guilty that I had three healthy children and she had none"
City News
The cutest pictures of Raptors players and their kids
The next generation of basketball talent is already toddling around Toronto
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Life
I pulled my kids out of school and let them make up their own curriculum
When my 10-year-old was having trouble in class, I tried everything to help him. Then I discovered unschooling
City News
Memoir: my life revolves around trying to get inside my autistic daughter’s head
I always considered myself a confident and capable mom. My husband, Al, and I had two daughters: Naya, born in 2006, and...
City News
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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City News
Memoir: my ex-husband wanted us to co-parent with his new girlfriend
When my ex told me he wanted his new girlfriend to help raise our son, I felt like strangling him. I didn’t realize that...
City News
VIDEO: watch a small child do Rob Ford’s crack denial
The video above, in which a nine-year-old uses the now-classic "I cannot comment on a video I have never seen or does not exist"...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I keep well-meaning neighbours from touching my newborn baby?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I live in a condo and just welcomed our first baby, a girl. Maybe she’s just irresistibly...
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City News
The Baby-Making Business: on the front lines of Toronto’s booming, semi-legal surrogacy market
Toronto’s surrogacy industry is booming and lucrative and at least partly illegal. Prospective parents, desperate to start a...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends’ kid damaged my basement wall, but they didn’t offer to pay for the repairs. What gives?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My partner and I recently had friends and their two boys over for dinner. While we ate, the kids played in...
City News
Toronto’s childcare situation is about to get less awful to the tune of $21 million
Raising a kid is never easy, and Toronto’s childcare system is often unhelpful. Parents face wait lists and costs as high as...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do we tell our otherwise perfect babysitter that drinking on the job isn’t cool?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I discovered the parenting Holy Grail: a babysitter who’s punctual, affordable and amazing with...
City News
Memoir: when my husband and I defected from North Korea, we made the biggest sacrifice of all
I met my husband, Oh-jooyean, in 1996, while working in a market near my hometown of Yonan, North Korea. I was 22 years old; he...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I obligated to provide a gluten-free option at my kid’s birthday party?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Last week we sent out e-vites for our son’s 10th birthday. The RSVPs started coming back, and in two...
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Life
My Cheating Heart: Lessons from my year on Ashley Madison
Everything you’re about to read is true. I’m withholding my name to protect my marriage, but the people, the places and the...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2012: monster friends for human kids
From her home in Dartmouth, N.S., Blythe Church sews these handmade monsters, which she says live in the back of closets and...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a make-your-own animal kit for less than $10
Who knew a wine cork could so easily transform into a charmingly low-budget buffalo, bear, monkey, deer, bunny or crow? These...
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Holiday Gift Ideas: 19 ideas for kids (or the young at heart)
Nothing makes one’s heart grow three sizes like seeing a child light up over a well-chosen present. We’ve picked 19 items we...
City News
Jan Wong: Why it’s time to talk about the elephant in the classroom—the Catholic school system
Most Torontonians think the Catholic school system is antiquated, expensive and unfair. So why don’t politicians want to talk...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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’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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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