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Real Estate News
Look inside the InterContinental Yorkville’s extravagant $2,500 hotel room, with CN Tower views and a marble double shower
The decor nods to major Toronto landmarks
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Real Estate News
Inside the InterContinental hotel’s newly renovated, $5,000-per-night Presidential Suite
It has hosted actual presidents
Style
15 of the top hotels in Toronto, ranked
Plan your next in-town escape with our guide to the city's artsy, polished, wildly excessive accommodations
Culture
SPOTTED: A shirtless Colin Hanks swears he’s in Toronto, and proves it
Colin Hanks posted this Vine yesterday to show the world that he is, in fact, in Toronto (and that he is not, in fact, wearing a...
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City News
Canadians invade New York’s real estate business with bags and bags of money
Two Canadian firms are mounting an invasion of Manhattan’s competitive commercial brokerage business. Toronto-based investment...
Culture
SPOTTED: Scott Speedman at the Alliance Films/Ben Sherman Lounge
Our TIFF eyes and ears are telling us that Scott Speedman, whom you may remember best from his days as the hunky Ben Covington on...
Culture
TIFF after hours: the 44 (and counting) film fest venues with the coveted 4 a.m. last call
Every year celebs from all over the world flood into the city for TIFF, but for many, it’s the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of...
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City News
How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
City News
The housekeepers revolt: behind the labour dispute at the Royal York Hotel
In an era of decline for organized labour, an aggressive hospitality workers’ union is determined to turn menial labour into...
Culture
30 Rock comes to Toronto: what they got right, what they got wrong
Last night’s jaunt to Toronto by 30 Rock ’s Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) and Avery Jessop ( Elizabeth Banks ) continued the...
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Food & Drink
The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious . The menus are less predictable than...
Culture
The King’s Speech takes TIFF’s top honour (and becomes Oscar bait)
And that’s a wrap. The official closing ceremony for the 35th Toronto International Film Festival took place at the...
Culture
Looking back at TIFF 2010: actor Emily Hampshire on how the festival has gone for her
With TIFF wrapping up, Good Neighbours actress Emily Hampshire is ready to let her hair down. When we talked with her on...
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Culture
Looking back at TIFF 2010: an Alliance Films VP gives her run down of this year’s fest
On Friday morning, Carrie Wolfe , the vice president of publicity and promotion for Alliance Films, was packing up her...
Culture
Q&A with Xavier Dolan: “My film is not homework that a critic should correct”
Xavier Dolan doesn’t want to lie, but he also doesn’t want to tell the truth. The 21-year-old director with the Eraserhead...
Culture
The swag series: DPA lounge offering celebs trips to Dubai and Tahiti
What it is: L.A.'s Dubois, Pelin and Associates has created celeb lounges all over the world, including at the Emmys and...
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Culture
The swag series: celebs get Joe Fresh make-overs at the Tastemakers Lounge
Celebrities—they're just like us, except they make more money and get more free stuff. An unfair irony, we know. As of...
Culture
Where to get a TIFF drink: the film festival’s 44 spots with 4 a.m. licences
The arrival of TIFF always demands answers to three crucial questions: which celebs are coming to town, what are the best flicks...
City News
From the Archives: a look back on TIFF’s most memorable moments
Oh, Snap 1978 Festival judge Robbie Robertson orders the Plaza II Hotel’s entire stash of Dom Perignon within an hour of...
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Culture
The Tastemakers’ Lounge: generous to the famous
Where’s a TIFF -goer to head for a semblance of home when they are miles before sleep? To the Tastemakers Lounge, of course. In...
Culture
Precious wins People’s Choice Award, screens free tonight
right after the closing gala, The Young Victoria .
Culture
Danny Glover is a no-show at the Down For Life party
Why is it, again, that our city is nicknamed Toronto the Good? Because based on everything we’ve seen so far at TIFF, we’re...
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Food & Drink
TIFF turf wars: eTalk and ET Canada have started to mark their territory and announce parties
Broadcast stations are starting to claim their territory for the 10 days of TIFF, mostly setting up headquarters from where they...
Food & Drink
The InterContinental’s SkyLounge patio is now open (and serving a recession-busting grill menu)
When the publicist said the biggest name who had RSVP’d for the InterContinental’s SkyLounge patio opening last night was Rick...
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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
Best New Restaurants
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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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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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