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City News
The city just hired 50 goats to combat invasive plants. We have questions
Question one: Are we fresh out of weed whackers?
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Shopping
Ten stylish, durable and comfy portable chairs you’ll want for your next outdoor hangout
They're easy to carry or pop in the trunk
Life
The Want List: super stylish, highly functional picnic paraphernalia for your weekend excursions
Everything you need to be the envy of your fellow park-goers
Life
Our large two-day wedding was cancelled, so we had a quickie ceremony with 40 guests in a public park
Inside a multicultural ceremony at the Toronto Music Garden
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City News
Q&A: Chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat, who wants build a “Central Park” for downtown
On how Rail Deck Park will be funded, and whether the name could be in for a change
City News
Feast your eyes on a massive new park the city wants to build downtown
The rail corridor west of Union Station may be in for a greening
Life
What Black Creek would look like if it became a watery High Line for the west end
A dream makeover for Toronto's saddest body of water
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City News
This is what Ontario Place’s new public park could look like
There's nothing much happening at Ontario Place at the moment, but if Queen's Park has its way we'll soon be spending lazy...
City News
Jan Wong: vicious turf wars at dog parks across Toronto have cost taxpayers a fortune
Once upon a time, happiness reigned in Ledbury Park, a 1.6-hectare expanse of green tucked into a residential area west of Avenue...
City News
Editor’s Letter (July 2013): how can Toronto protect its parks?
One of the nicest ways to spend a summer afternoon is to go to Trinity Bellwoods Park, find a spot on the grass and...
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City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 13, because there’s a national park in the middle of Scarborough
Stories of vanishing ecosystems and endangered species are such a grimly familiar refrain, it’s a spirit-lifting relief when...
City News
TRCA staff not cool with Rob Ford buying the (now infamous) land near his house
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority officials hinted that its board shouldn’t allow Rob Ford to buy that notorious bit of...
City News
Rouge Valley gets $144 million to become Canada’s first national park in a city
As the federal government promised nearly a year ago, a massive stretch of the Rouge Valley will become Canada’s first urban...
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Style
Street Style: 24 looks at the style of Trinity Bellwoods Park
Trinity Bellwoods Park is but a shell of its former self these days, physically speaking at least. Back in the very early...
City News
Rob Ford’s plan to buy parkland advances—as does the Toronto Star’s campaign against it
There won’t be any decision just yet about whether Rob Ford can buy the strip of parkland next to his Etobicoke bungalow...
City News
Reaction Roundup: a few sane arguments (in a whole sea of crazy) about Rob Ford’s backyard showdown
The strange tale of Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale’s altercation with Rob Ford keeps escalating (as does our vicarious...
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Neighbourhood drama: Cedarvale residents squabble over making local tennis courts private
Word is there’s a small intra-neighbourhood battle brewing in Councillor Joe Mihevc’ s ward. Apparently, a group of local...
City News
Where to Buy Now: Christie Pits, because good parks make good neighbours
Plagued by crime and patrolled by drug dealers, Christie Pits’s green spaces seemed doomed—until fed-up neighbours did...
City News
Rob Granatstein: why the city should sell off its assets—slowly but surely
To close the budget gap, Rob Ford wants to sell city assets. Good idea, bad timing. Even a novice real estate investor knows to...
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Real Estate News
The Atlantic Cities names Sherbourne Common one of the best new parks on the planet
When it opened this summer, Sherbourne Common proved that storm water filtration can be beautiful too. A few weeks back, The...
City News
Rob Ford declares victory on budget cuts—but his support base looks wobbly
While provincial leaders wowed us last night with dazzling hand gestures and their ability to stick to talking points, Toronto...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Nuit Blanche, Spring Awakening and six other items on our to-do list
1. NUIT BLANCHE We wish good luck to those who aim to see all there is to see at this year’s sundown–to–sun-up contemporary...
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City News
Pro-toplessness advocacy organization marches through Toronto streets half-naked and believes in aliens
Last week, the city denied a permit to the group GoTopless, which had planned an event at Ashbridges Bay Park on Sunday to mark...
City News
Jewel-like bugs could destroy Toronto’s ash trees this summer
Toronto may have narrowly escaped snowpocalypse this winter, but the city is now facing a summer threat: an invasion of the...
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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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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