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City News
Ten pick-your-own-flower destinations within driving distance of Toronto
The best farms for sustainable bouquets, Instagram-worthy sunflower fields and more
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Food & Drink
Quoted: an irate chicken rescuer on why she hates urban foodie farmers
–The owner of a Minneapolis-based chicken shelter on the maddening naiveté of earnest, eco-conscious urbanites who abandon...
City News
Editor’s Letter (August 2012): digging up the dirt
Toronto has been growing at a ferocious rate for as long as I can remember. The Greater Toronto Area has six million inhabitants...
Food & Drink
Strubs Food purchased, fate of pickles remains to be determined
As we suspected, the insolvent Strubs Food Corp. (maker of the much- loved Strubs pickles) has been bought by shelf-stable food...
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Food & Drink
McDonald’s to make treatment of pigs slightly less cruel
For years, animal rights activists have insisted that “gestational crates”—the small boxes used to confine pregnant...
City News
Jan Wong: how the rise of horticultural training at Toronto schools is bad for students
While we’re busy teaching our kids to tend school gardens, they’re failing provincial tests in reading, writing and math. The...
Food & Drink
Start canning: world to run out of food around 2050
Here we were thinking that the coming century would herald nothing but flying cars, weird haircuts and sweet video games, but the...
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Food & Drink
Can’t argue with results: wine biodynamics might be hocus pocus, but it doesn’t really matter
As consumer demand for organic wine grows, more and more wineries will be adopting the oft-contested growing method known as...
Food & Drink
Turns out cockroach brains might just save us all
We wanted to follow up on our earlier story about how the UN is seriously considering the potential of farming insects to save the...
Food & Drink
UN recommends we all start eating bugs
Entomophagy, the practice of eating insects, has been the subject of many a food trend story . Apparently, bugs are a...
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Food & Drink
Tiny bubbles: top picks from Prince Edward County’s first sparkling wines
Prince Edward County’s first sparklers are incredible: you’d swear you were drinking champagne The first three sparkling wines...
City News
Hope for the Cottageless: an insider’s guide to vacationing in cottage country
So you didn’t listen when everyone told you to book a rental back in January, and you haven’t yet managed to finagle an invite...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto
While the Great Recession battered other cities, Toronto has emerged triumphant—Bay Street is bullish, our real estate market is...
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Food & Drink
Ignatieff supports local food, talks like Sarah Palin
Michael Ignatieff has announced that a Liberal government would implement a policy to provide support for farmers and to help...
City News
Escape Plan: five amazing Ontario getaways
Five off-the-radar summer destinations where you can eat, drink, fish, farm, bike or meditate to your heart’s content Blue Fox...
Food & Drink
Meat isn’t as bad for the environment as previously thought: study
Slate.com’s Green Lantern column is reporting that farm animals might not be “the global warming bogeymen…previously...
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Food & Drink
Walmart and Whole Foods go head-to-head in organic battle
Developing a hate-on for corporations and big-box retailers is a pastime of many, but it may be time for a paradigm shift. The...
Food & Drink
The art of scotch pairing, the messiah of coffee comes to Toronto, Martha Stewart’s vegetarian Thanksgiving
• According to the Globe and Mail , scotch’s “vast array of sweet toffee, smoky mineral, spiced citrus, dried fruit and...
Food & Drink
Michelle Obama on Iron Chef, Lea and Perrins recipe revealed, Canada’s cod comeback
• What is the best way to get rid of unwanted Halloween candy? Serious Eats recommends burying it in a shallow grave—a pie...
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A seven-patty burger, DIY mushroom farming, grain- versus grass-fed beef
• When it comes to weird fast-food promotions, no one beats the Japanese. This time around, Burger King has teamed up with...
Food & Drink
Freegans in Toronto dumpsters, NYC takes on fat, monkey brains top the squeamish list
• New York City is going visceral in its battle to keep citizens lean. A new ad campaign is being launched this month that hopes...
Food & Drink
Why it’s worth paying $200 to eat in a field
We are in the middle of a farmer's field near Bradford, Ontario, but it looks like a five-star restaurant. Jim Denevan has brought...
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Food & Drink
Cooped up: A woman is in hiding as she fights for Torontonians’ right to keep chickens in their backyard
A Toronto mom is in a cat-and-mouse game with bylaw officers who want to capture her illegally kept chickens and send them back to...
Food & Drink
Constant gardeners: Young Urban Farmers shows us how to cheat at backyard farming
Most urban foodies would love to grow their own organic spinach, but most of us barely have time to stop at Sobeys on our way home...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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TL Events
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment