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Six people are hit by a car each day in Toronto. We know how to fix it, so why don’t we?
In New York and London, pedestrian fatalities have plummeted. In Toronto, they're on the rise
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City News
The compelling case for forcing Toronto’s drivers to slow down
Toronto’s roads are the most perilous in the country for pedestrians. The solution is simple, smart and anathema to an already...
City News
Philip Preville: The case for making bike helmets mandatory
Driving without a seat belt is considered absurdly reckless. Why isn’t cycling without a helmet? Any cyclist who’s ever been...
City News
Celebrate Yonge Street for the next month with lane closures and lots of walking space
Beginning Friday, car traffic on Yonge Street will be reduced to one lane in each direction between Gerrard Street and Queen...
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City News
Tension between taxi drivers and other road users grows after longboarder Ralph Bissonette’s death
The battle for space and safety on city streets is making headlines again in light of the death of Ralph Bissonette, the...
City News
Kristyn Wong-Tam and Denzil Minnan-Wong argue over how to turn Yonge into New York
Yonge Street retailers are complaining that the area has too much foot traffic—which sounds a little nuts, but their reasoning...
City News
QUOTED: Denzil Minnan-Wong scolds Toronto’s chief medical officer for wanting to cut speed limits
—Denzil Minnan-Wong, chair of the public works committee, getting testy over Dr. David McKeown’ s call to cut the speed limit...
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Apparently, the mayor makes a lot of proclamations—but we still want to know more about “Foot Health Month”
City hall blogger—and Informer contributor— Matt Elliott has spotted something that we missed: Rob Ford never signed an...
City News
Denzil Minnan-Wong sets his sights on the Dundas and Yonge scramble intersection, snubbing Kristyn Wong-Tam (once again)
Yesterday afternoon, council announced its latest salvo in the war on the car: Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong is calling for the...
City News
Toronto’s downtown universities want to keep pedestrian space open to people and closed to cars
Ryerson University students agitated for the closure of Gould Street for years, but it took the front wall at 335 Yonge Street to...
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Real Estate News
Kristyn Wong-Tam is pushing an ambitious revitalization plan for Yonge Street—but will it fly at Rob Ford’s city hall?
Yonge Street dollar stores, strip clubs and head shops be warned: an ambitious new plan for revamping Toronto’s main drag is...
City News
Toronto leads the country in bike-on-car collisions—wait, really?
The city recently released a report about last year’s data on cyclist collisions with cars and pedestrians, and the statistics...
City News
War on the Car: cars still winning, this time in a battle against a Bixi bike stand
We didn't expect to see the clash between the city’s two allegedly warring modes of transportation play out quite so literally...
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City News
Welcome to Toronto the Rude
We swear at each other from cars, bark at each other on the TTC and yell into our cellphones. How a supposedly livable city...
City News
Councillor kills Fort York bridge in the latest example of war on “waste”—and impending fire sale of city assets
Fort York is pretty enough, but getting there is fairly treacherous for cyclists and pedestrians. The city had decided to address...
City News
Ford set to kill citizen committees, because he’s all about respect for taxpayers
The City of Toronto has a lot of committees, so it may be tempting to cheer when a small-government mayor like Rob Ford announces...
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Food & Drink
Yorkville’s redesign kicks street food vendors off the curb
The costly Bloor Street Transformation Project (BSTP) may have added flowerpots, trees and benches to the widened granite...
City News
Karen Stintz wants to crack down on bikes on sidewalks
We can’t imagine why Karen Stintz , who’s got work up to her eyeballs with the restructuring of the TTC under Rob Ford ’s...
Real Estate News
How to deal with the Gardiner Expressway: a history of solutions that have never come to pass
Dealing with the Gardiner Expressway is never going to be easy. Critics say it’s a costly eyesore that partially blocks access...
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City unveils new pedestrian scramble intersection
Score one for the latte sippers: the city sent out a press release this morning announcing that a new four-way pedestrian scramble...
City News
Darcy Allen Sheppard’s dad joins memorial bike ride, calls Toronto “toxic”
One year after his death, friends and family gathered in downtown Toronto to remember Darcy Allan Sheppard , the bike courier...
City News
Toronto G20 photo gallery: the eerie aftermath
Before hundreds of bystanders were corralled into a human blockade at Queen and Spadina under torrential rain, the downtown core...
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Strange bedfellows: with a plan similar to Thomson’s and Ford’s, Rossi turns the subway love-in into a threesome
It feels like it was just yesterday that Howard Moscoe was whining that none of the mayoral candidates was running as the champion...
Real Estate News
Turning the Gardiner into a park: an idea becomes safe for Toronto when New York does it first
The Gardiner Expressway is many things: choked at rush hour, the Great Wall on the waterfront and, in many respects, ugly as...
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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
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
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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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