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Jesse Brown: Why music streaming services mean the death of radio—or perhaps its rebirth
Video never did kill the radio star. Neither did CDs or MP3s or even satellite radio, which tried to take down dusty old AM/FM...
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Real Estate News
Real estate sages’ predictions are right (for once): condo prices are rising at a slower pace
For months, market gurus have been predicting that condo prices would stagnate due to new mortgage regulations and a multitude of...
Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: the average house price in Toronto is now over $800,000
In most of Canada, home prices are starting to stagnate (or even fall), suggesting that the country’s real estate market is...
City News
Ontario has a new requirement for building condo balconies: use better glass (duh!)
In a move that was both expected and a long time coming, Ontario Housing Minister Kathleen Wynne has announced that the province...
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City News
There’s a stripper poll on the City of Toronto website
City staff have posted an online “Adult Entertainment Parlour Regulation Survey” (yes, actually) that asks the public to weigh...
City News
Josh Matlow decides maybe Toronto’s street hockey ban should stand after all
Josh Matlow has backed away from trying to lift Toronto’s street hockey ban, mostly because he has gotten tons of flak from...
Food & Drink
Two Toronto food trucks run afoul of a regulation they’d never heard of
Of all the kinds of terrible red tape to get tangled in, the worst kind may be the red tape you didn’t even know...
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Food & Drink
Canada’s butter market sucks, and your pastries are suffering—but there’s hope on the horizon
The front page of today’s Globe and Mail proclaims Canada “a butter backwater,” telling readers that if they’re struggling...
Food & Drink
Brampton man asks council to permit extra backyard chickens (proving his city is cooler than Toronto)
Brampton resident and sometime poultry freedom fighter Joe Arlotto is doing everything he can to make sure his city looks cooler...
Food & Drink
Looking to set up a food truck in Toronto? Check out this giant infographic
Even the most casual observer of Toronto’s nascent food truck scene knows that the biggest barrier to, say, Southern...
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Food & Drink
Health organizations pepper the prime minister with requests to curb national sodium intake
The story of salt regulation in this country is long and only occasionally delicious. First, the feds created a task force to set...
Food & Drink
Miraculously, microbrewery regulations ease up slightly
While craft beer fans are still lamenting the takeover of the old Duggan’s space by Molson Coors subsidiary Six Pints Specialty...
City News
Jesse Brown: how big wireless companies, the banks, and even the actors’ union are keeping our mobile bills the highest in the world
Getting gouged by cellphone providers is such a routine part of life in Canada that it barely seems worth complaining about. Yet...
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Food & Drink
Following new conviction, raw milkman Michael Schmidt begins hunger strike—again
The saga of raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt continues. Last week the courts overturned their initial verdict, which had found...
City News
Conservatives call for licensing for cyclists as bikes-versus-cars rhetoric ramps up (again)
In the wake of a near-fatal bike-on-pedestrian crash off Dundas Street earlier this week, a number of noted Toronto right-wingers...
City News
Why the proposed “merger” between the TMX and the London Stock Exchange is bad news for Bay Street
One morning in late January, 1998, the Bank of Montreal CEO Matthew Barrett and Royal Bank chief John Cleghorn paid a visit to the...
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Food & Drink
All-night foodie raves are the latest street food trend unlikely to appear in Toronto
It’s no secret that when it comes to street food, Torontonians are a little behind the curve. So when a new curbside craze...
City News
First prostitution, now pot: Ontario courts keep targeting taboos
The Ontario Superior Court has been busy lately, striking blows against contradictory laws. First there was last fall’s ruling...
Food & Drink
Toronto might be moving to food-cart sanity—if province, city hall and restaurant owners let it happen
The infamous Toronto à la Cart program is finally winding down—or, more accurately, dying an unlamented death after becoming...
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City News
With Bell backing down on Internet billing, it just might not become an election issue (but it probably should be)
The hordes of angry Internet users who were outraged about the CRTC’s decision on usage-based billing (UBB) chalked up a minor...
City News
Ontario schools to poor people: suck it
One thing that the provincial Liberals are proud of as they run for a third term is their record in education. Full-day...
City News
Ottawa moves to make a tunnel to the Island Airport legal
Now that they’re not asking for government money, the Toronto Port Authority should have an easy time building the planned...
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City News
What does the TSX-LSE merge mean for Toronto?
Big news on Bay Street this morning as the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and London Stock Exchange (LSE) announce merger...
Food & Drink
Ottawa disbands salt task force, industry licks lips in anticipation
For years, it’s been evident that Canadians are consuming too much salt . In response to public pressure, and growing unease...
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’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
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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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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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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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