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“We’re not trained actors—it was a big adjustment”: A Q&A with the charming family starring in the new docuseries
Bollywed
Their back-to-back episodes air Thursdays at 8 p.m. on CBC TV and stream for free on CBC Gem
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Style
The most adorable families at Field Trip
20 shots of extremely cool kids and their hip parents
City News
Moms on Top: the rise of power wives, house husbands and the new single-income family
Now that more women are high powered and high earning, their husbands are choosing to quit work and raise the kids. An inside look...
City News
Editor’s Letter (November 2013): Will stay-at-home dads feel as marginalized as stay-at-home moms once did?
Forty years ago, this magazine published provocative, trend-defining pieces about women entering the workforce. The stories...
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City News
Love and War in the House of McCain: inside the divorce that exposed the famous family’s deepest secrets
Two years ago, on a family vacation in Mustique, Christine McCain told her husband that she wanted out of their marriage. Michael...
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
A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is...
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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...
City News
Maple Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain must pay $175,000 to his ex-wife every month
The lesson from the latest, almost uncomfortably intimate details to emerge from the divorce proceedings of Maple Leaf Foods CEO...
City News
Memoir: when I moved away from my overprotective parents at age 17, I was primed for trouble
I grew up in sleepy, suburban Calgary. My parents are conservative, first-generation immigrants from...
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City News
Memoir: when my deadbeat dad had a stroke, I finally learned how to forgive him
In the spring of 2006, I sat in a padded metal chair and watched my 63-year-old father wake up from a Demerol sleep. He was lying...
Life
A Life Interrupted: Hassan Rasouli’s journey from an earache to a high-stakes battle over end-of-life decisions
Early in the summer of 2010, Hassan Rasouli, a 59-year-old engineer, had a problem with his right ear. He noticed sounds were...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My sister gave me opera tickets. Am I obligated to take her as my date?
Dear Urban Diplomat, For my 40th birthday, my sister bought me season’s tickets to the Canadian Opera Company—two seats in the...
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Today in Toronto: Free Flicks (The Karate Kid) and ROMwalk
Free Flicks: Rise of the Underdog All summer, Harbourfront hosts weekly free screenings of films celebrating the triumphs of...
Today in Toronto: Ashkenaz Festival
Ashkenaz Festival: The biennial celebration of traditional Jewish cultural staples lives on through the contemporary mediums of...
Today in Toronto: BuskerFest, Dead Can Dance and Jamelie Hassan
Buskerfest Performers from as far away as Spain and Japan tumble, juggle, ride and generally turn the entire St. Lawrence Market...
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City News
Jan Wong: the simmering class war over basement apartments in Brampton
I once moved into an illegal basement apartment in Toronto for a newspaper series about working undercover as a maid. At $750 a...
City News
The Cult of Pastor Song: a religious sex scandal in Toronto’s Korean community
The sex scandal consuming Toronto’s Korean community began when six international students said they were repeatedly gang-raped...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Luminato, Woofstock and six other items on our to-do list
, woofstock.ca Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd., 416-696-1000, ontariosciencecentre.ca historic, renovated, original and...
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City News
TRCA kills Rob Ford’s dream of buying up parkland by his house to build a big fence
As expected, the executive committee of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has decided to follow its staff’s...
City News
Return of the Dads: one Scarborough father’s simple solution to his community’s most taboo problem
The most taboo question in Toronto’s Caribbean and African communities is why half of black fathers refuse to help raise their...
City News
The Conversation: authors Linden MacIntyre and Kyo Maclear on relationships, family and deception
The place: The Rooster Coffee House on Broadview | The people: authors Linden MacIntyre and Kyo Maclear | The subject:...
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City News
Almost Rich: an examination of the true cost of city living and why rich is never rich enough
An income of $196,000 places you in the country’s top one per cent of earners. But does it make you wealthy? The Western world...
Real Estate News
The Chase: a couple finds an east end pad with room for a granny suite in the basement
The Buyers: Johnny Williams, a 36-year-old bail supervisor, and Christiann Holweck, a 33-year-old operations manager at...
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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
Big Stories
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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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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