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“I just competed in my first airplane drag race. It was one of the most intense experiences of my life”
I wanted an adventurous career, so I became a pilot. Then I found an even bigger adrenalin rush
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“Better safe than sorry is the motto of a police state”: Cara Zwibel, a civil liberties lawyer, says Canada’s new quarantine hotel rules may violate the Charter
Is it legal to force Canadians to pay for a three-night hotel stay just for leaving the country?
City News
Q&A: Pearson CEO Deborah Flint on keeping travellers safe during a pandemic
The future of flying includes robot cleaners, temperature scanners and an Instagrammable disinfecting mist corridor
City News
VIDEO: check out the flashy new Dreamliners that Air Canada will be flying in spring 2014
Pearson Airport is newly swank-ified and Air Canada will soon have some fancy jets to match. This spring, the airline is getting...
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City News
Two signs that the Island Airport is only getting bigger and better
Billy Bishop Airport’s proximity to the city—plus the free cookies in the departure lounge—have already won over many...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I be embarrassed that my husband stockpiles free food from the airport lounge?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I recently bought a chalet at Mont-Tremblant and have been flying Porter back and forth. He is...
City News
Air Canada clears a major hurdle to its plans for an international low-cost airline
Over a year ago, Air Canada made noises about getting into the low-cost holiday-package market, but the proposal was stalled due...
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City News
Air Canada pilots call in sick, Air Canada passengers just sickened
Since this morning, Air Canada has been dealing with a pilot “sick-in,” which stands to be about as unpleasant as it...
City News
Drunk, unruly RIM executives were tied up on an Air Canada flight—and then chewed through their restraints
The basic story reported two weeks ago was amusing enough—two Research in Motion executives get in a drunken row on a plane to...
City News
Reason to Love Toronto: Because it’s never been easier to get out of town
It’s a distant, foggy memory now, but let’s briefly recap: back in 2003, when David Miller ran for mayor, promising to...
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City News
For the second time, a Virgin airline cuts Toronto out of its list of destinations
Back in April, we were so hopeful about Virgin America’s new flights to San Francisco and L.A. That hope proved wasted last...
City News
Coffee spill on United flight just one of many terrifying/hilarious incidents in Toronto airspace. Here are five more
The Toronto Star is reporting that a Chicago-Frankfurt flight made an emergency landing at Pearson after the plane’s...
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The $65,000 summer home: inside four Florida houses that these Toronto couples got for a steal
When the North American housing market collapsed in 2008, Florida turned into foreclosure alley. With the loonie riding high...
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Culture
Celebrities will now fly coach to Toronto with the plebs
Stars: they’re just like us—thanks to budget cuts. That’s right. You could find yourself rubbing elbows with Brangelina and...
City News
Air Canada announces its first flights from the Island; Porter CEO “pleased”
The battle for the hearts and minds (and wallets) of Toronto’s travellers continues. The latest chapter in the throwdown between...
City News
Island airport to get tunnel, money, passengers and Air Canada
The shortest ferry ride in the world is about to be sidestepped by a $45 million investment from the Toronto Port Authority: an...
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City News
Island Airport update: Porter-Air Canada throwdown heats up
Air Canada has taken to the courts to whine about the Toronto Port Authority's allotment of takeoff and landing spots at Toronto's...
City News
Tories spend $10M on North Bay airport for G8; no G8 planes actually landing there
We’ve got to hand it to the Star , which is being utterly relentless in following the G8/G20 spending debacle. Today's front...
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Porter keeps expanding, but still no Florida. Any chance they’ll fly there in this lifetime?
The Sunshine State seems like an obvious choice for Toronto’s boutique airline. Last year, 6,378 flights departed from Pearson...
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Virgin to start flying out of Pearson, hopes it goes better than last time
Virgin America announced yesterday via Twitter it would soon be offering daily flights from Toronto to California’s west...
City News
Volcanic disruptions: the best of the worst YYZ horror stories
Understandably, not everyone is taking his or her extended trip in Toronto as well as Ian McEwan . Flights to Europe are now...
City News
Tory cabinet minister apologizes for bawling out airport officials who refused to reveal the fate of his tequila
Apparently the PMO’s grip on cabinet ministers’ media appearances is not as tight as it used to be , particularly when it...
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Style
Coco Rocha gets engaged, lands a byline in New York Times
At this rate, the model’s next accomplishment will be walking on water. Coco Rocha announced on her blog earlier this week that...
Food & Drink
New details emerge about why Susur Lee only tied Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America
As Canadians try to heal the national wounds suffered after Bobby Flay trounced Michael Smith on Iron Chef America , Susur Lee...
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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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