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FIFA banned reusable water bottles at World Cup stadiums. Olivia Chow called the policy “a pure money grab”
FIFA changed its code of conduct this week, saying water bottles could be used as projectiles
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City News
A Google Maps glitch caused chaos in Oakwood Village
City officials say they'd like to speak with Google after drivers were sent in the wrong direction on a one-way street
City News
Just 64 per cent of riders are satisfied with TTC service
And due to decreased fare revenue, there's an $8-million year-to-date budget shortfall
City News
Josh Matlow says hosting the World Cup is “a horrible deal for our citizens”
The city councillor was in favour of Toronto's World Cup matches, until he saw the price tag
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City News
Canada Post moves one step closer to cancelling home mail delivery
The new system could see bulk mailboxes spring up across the city
Real Estate News
This councillor has requested that city hall join the Ontario Place court battle
Josh Matlow says local government should push back against “Doug Ford’s attacks on our democracy”
City News
After record snowfall didn’t destroy the Science Centre, some question whether it needed to close
The beloved Science Centre closed in 2024 due to concerns that its roof could collapse
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City News
Never mind, the Eglinton Crosstown doesn’t actually have an opening date
We don’t know what to believe anymore
City News
At long last, the Eglinton Crosstown has an opening date
(Knock on wood)
City News
A provincial recycling truck collected one Toronto resident’s bin but skipped the rest of the street
Councillor Josh Matlow called the new recycling program’s roll-out “a hot mess”
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City News
Toronto Life
’s most-read Q&As of 2025
Including conversations with the TTC’s new CEO, superstar Ryan Reynolds and Prime Minister Mark Carney
City News
City council passed a motion to speed up the Finch West LRT
Only one councillor opposed it, citing traffic congestion concerns
City News
Two Toronto tenants were almost evicted for being one cent short of rent
Now, they’re sharing their story as a warning to other renters in light of Bill 60
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City News
Feud Watch: Josh Matlow versus community mailboxes
The city councillor is coming for big, ugly street furniture
Culture
“Many of us have a Rob Ford in our lives”: The director of
Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem
on the late politician’s bewildering legacy
Nearly a decade after Ford’s death, Shianne Brown’s new Netflix doc asks viewers to reconsider the fever dream of his mayoralty
City News
Josh Matlow dreams of a Toronto without piles of hot garbage. Can it be done?
The city councillor sounds off on overflowing trash bins and why the current privatized maintenance contract is rubbish
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“It’s like hiring an army of sloths”: Councillor Josh Matlow on the city’s excruciatingly slow snow removal
The councillor for Toronto–St. Paul’s discusses his ire over Toronto’s $1.5-billion privatized snow plows, what we could learn from Montreal and his personal shovelling saga
City News
The no-politics mayoral candidate questionnaire: Josh Matlow
"Obviously my celebrity doppelgänger is a younger Tom Cruise"
Food & Drink
“This is about leisurely and responsible imbibing”: A Q&A with the Toronto councillor trying to legalize drinking in public parks
If Josh Matlow gets his way, summer in the city could be a little less dry
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The no-politics councillor questionnaire: Joe Mihevc vs. Josh Matlow
If you can't decide which way to vote based on policy, let personality be your guide
City News
Which city councillor are you? A post-budget-season personality quiz
Which local politician is your soulmate?
City News
Why the Gardiner East decision, whatever it is, won’t be “evidence based”
Pity the 5,200 souls who drive the eastern stretch of the Gardiner during morning rush hour. They are getting a good whipping in...
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Will Toronto really adopt 30-kilometre-per-hour speed limits on residential streets?
THE IDEA Toronto has long flirted with the prospect of reducing the speed limits on its residential streets to 30 kilometres per...
City News
Reaction Roundup: the 18 essential quotes about Rob Ford’s L.A. trip and Jimmy Kimmel appearance
"I don’t think I’ve had this many questions since the series finale of Lost. ” — Jimmy Kimmel , host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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