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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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Food & Drink
Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best champagne and sparkling wine
Nine bottles to pop this NYE
Food & Drink
Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best whites
Perfect for your holiday feasts, from festive seafood to hearty roast beasts
Food & Drink
Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best reds
Whether for pairing or giving, these reds are ripe for holiday living
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Shopping
What to Wear to Christmas Parties: tuxedo blazers, skater skirts and more top trends for the holiday season
The holiday season brings with it a certain set of headaches: wacky relatives coming to stay, panicked shopping trips, and the...
Shopping
Christmas Gift Ideas: a week-long pop-up shop on Ossington that’s stacked with designer labels
Around this time of year, holiday shoppers start flocking to craft fairs—and to their hipster equivalents, pop-up shops. Today...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for the food lovers
Everything a home cook could possibly want See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for outdoor enthusiasts
Rugged and sporty gifts for the athletically inclined See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for discerning kids
Gifts for small people with big taste See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for culture junkies
The year’s best offerings for people who are really into the arts See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for jet-setters
Gifts for world travellers (or anyone who just likes nice luggage) See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for under $50
These 41 gifts are covetable, fun and well-designed. They’re also inexpensive. Here, a list of great gifts for under $50. See...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents from $50 to $200
We scoured the city to find a slew of mid-range gifts for everyone on your list. Here, more than three dozen of our...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for over $200
Santa’s not the only one with a generous soul—most of us have had the occasional urge to splash out on a top-of-the-line...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our top 100 presents for everybody on your list
Our annual list of holiday gift ideas includes presents for kids, foodies, outdoors enthusiasts and more. Here, a roundup of 100...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a Fred Perry cycling shirt designed by a Tour de France champ
With taxis, streetcar tracks, cars and rogue pedestrians to contend with, biking in Toronto can feel like a high-stakes road...
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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...
City News
Primer: how to choose between Toronto’s big holiday shows
It’s time to suspend your cynicism and surrender to one of the city’s big, gooey, hurt-your-teeth-sweet holiday...
Style
GALLERY: 15 Toronto shops with festive Christmas windows
Although December means shopping lists, crowded malls and frenzied buying sprees (our holiday gift guide can help), it’s worth...
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Style
Street Style: 18 looks at the holiday shoppers at Holt Renfrew
The crush in Toronto’s malls and retail strips before Christmas means that many shoppers are tempted to wear the eminently...
Shopping
The Find: festive party clothes to wear to holiday bashes
December is usually a swirling mess of office parties, open houses, cocktails with friends and family dinners. While we can’t...
Style
The best Black Friday deals in Toronto and where to find them
With American Thanksgiving nearly here, it's time to brace for rampant, riot-like shopping. Yes, November 23 is Black Friday, the...
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Real Estate News
Cottage of the Week: $3,500 a week for a lakeside lodge with themed bedrooms
ADDRESS: Esson Lake, about five kilometres from Wilberforce, Ontario NEIGHBOURHOOD: Haliburton Highlands AGENT: Available through...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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