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You can buy a Christmas gift for all the animals at the Toronto Zoo
Ever thought about what a hippopotamus might want for Christmas?
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Fifteen amazing Black Friday deals for home goods enthusiasts
Including a hydroponic indoor garden, a super-soft alpaca throw and stackable Staub cookware
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Fifteen host gift ideas we love
A Toronto-themed candle, a marble butter keeper and more fun finds for party season
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Toronto Valentine’s Day Gifts for Women: 15 gifts she will actually adore
A note for bewildered boyfriends: few women want to gorge on chocolate or squeeze into ill-fitting lingerie after consuming a...
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Toronto Valentine’s Day Gifts for Men: 15 gift ideas for guys, from simple to extravagant
Guys can be tough to shop for on Valentine's Day: they don’t tend to gush over romantic gestures and sappy cards, and there's no...
City News
It’s Rob Ford’s birthday: 10 gifts for the man who has everything (and by everything, we mean a crack scandal)
Rob Ford probably didn’t want to spend his 44th birthday dodging the media, walking past vacant desks where trusted advisors...
City News
Girlfriends for Hire: the rules of Toronto’s new sugar daddy economy
Olivia dates rich older men in exchange for gifts and money. She doesn’t consider it prostitution. In her mind, and in the minds...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Him: 6 gift ideas for guys, from light-hearted to titillating
Buying a Valentine’s Day present is hard. The gift needs to not only appeal to your guy, but also match the tone of your...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Her: 6 gift ideas, from low-key to unabashedly romantic
Each year around February 14, the streets seem to be full of confused-looking men clutching bouquets of red roses or La Senza...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a creepy candle for Christmas non-purists
A skull can add an impressive air to any room (just ask med school instructors, Hamlet directors and Dutch still life painters...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: an outrageously high-end hookah
We doubt many people have ever dreamed of a owning a luxury shisha pipe. However, if you’re scrambling for a gift for the...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a shiny red pasta machine for Mario Batali wannabes
A pasta maker will give your favourite foodie the chance to airily declare, “I stopped buying pasta because homemade tastes so...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a pocket-size iPad keyboard that’s sure to make gadget junkies drool
If the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds at local Apple stores are any indication, lots of iPads will be under the Christmas tree this...
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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...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a playful illustration of Toronto in all its glory
Presents for the home can be tricky—you don’t want the recipient to feel obligated to display a gift that’s not to their...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a cheeky flask for a manly man
A personal supply of hooch can make anything from a freezing cold football game to a niece’s ballet recital a lot more...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: an iPhone dock that’s meant to be noticed
Bang and Olufsen, maker of distinctive-looking audio and video products, wouldn’t sell a run-of-the-mill dock. The BeoPlay A8...
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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 Guide 2012: Modernist Cuisine at Home, a cookbook for ambitious home chefs
Modernist Cuisine at Home is a spin-off of Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine, a $625 five-volume epic geared toward serious...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Herschel’s durable, primary-coloured backpacks
Herschel Supply Co. (named after the founders’ tiny Saskatchewan hometown ) makes ultra-tough backpacks with all kinds of useful...
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GALLERY: The top 10 booths from the holiday One of a Kind Show
The One of a Kind Show gives Canadian artisans the chance to sell their lovingly crafted wares, and panicked holiday shoppers the...
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Holiday Gift Ideas: 17 clever, fun and beautiful items for the home
We love giving gifts for the home because they’re wonderfully versatile. For colleagues, acquaintances or kids’ teachers, a...
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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...
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Holiday Gift Ideas: 100 perfect presents for everybody on your list
One hundred of the things we want most this year—starting with a puppy Holiday shopping is equal parts excitement and...
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Summer Camp Guide
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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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