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City News
Five of the Toronto’s most hard-core new fitness clubs
Including a
Tron
-themed Lagree studio, a high-altitude simulator for wannabe mountaineers and a fitness influencer’s customized bunker for doing his own research
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Culture
This new gym costs $2,000 a month
And you have to write an essay to join
Life
The most intense at-home fitness classes from Toronto gyms for adrenalin junkies
To get that glazed-donut glow
Life
When the pandemic put him out of work, this welder and fitness buff began producing condo-size gym equipment
He started peddling them on Kijiji, and by August he was up to four or five squat racks a week
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Life
Toronto gyms offering livestream classes for house-bound fitness freaks
Here’s to enjoying a jolt of feel-good endorphins while the city’s on lockdown
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: What can I do about gross sounds in my gym’s locker room?
"She makes the most revolting sounds—hawking and spitting like you wouldn’t believe"
Style
SLIDESHOW: A tour of Madonna’s new Toronto gym—which is full of close-ups photos of her face
Madonna, the original VMA shock performer, is still flexing her celebrity status. And her sinewed upper body. The superstar’s...
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Style
Madonna opens one of her upscale, nightclub-like fitness centres in Toronto
Madonna, poster child for the taut bum after 50, is bringing one of her high-end fitness centres to Toronto. Hard Candy Fitness—...
Style
Bare Necessities: Toronto’s 10 top spots for summertime primping
Hairy legs and sandpapery skin are fine in February, but once the warm weather hits, it’s time to get buff and buffed. Here, our...
Shopping
The Find: ultra-bright workout gear to help keep New Year’s resolutions on track
Thanks to cold weather, dark mornings and post-holiday gloom, January is a strong contender for the most depressing month of the...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I go barefoot on the treadmill at the gym?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a physiotherapist, and I recently started running barefoot on the treadmill at my gym. To my...
City News
QUOTED: Doug Ford’s daughter Krista on whether she’ll be the third Ford at city hall
— Krista Ford, a personal trainer and former Lingerie Football League player, on whether she’d ever join her dad, Doug...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 2, because we’re pumped for gold
The posse of Torontonians who’ll invade this summer’s London Olympics is determined to return with more medals than...
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Shopping
The Thing: a crunch-free way to look good at the gym (i.e. a new, splashy, luxe bag)
New Year’s resolutionists are, right now, laying down several months’ salary on a gym membership they already know they...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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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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