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Seventy per cent of poll respondents support social media restrictions for people under 16
And that goes for AI chatbots, too
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Canadians want kids under 16 kicked off social media
Time to touch grass
Deep Dives
Prime Minister Mark Carney on texting with Trump, staring down the housing crisis and the perils of AI
For defending Canada in a time of turmoil, the PM is
Toronto Life
’s most influential person of the year
City News
The Toronto Catholic District School Board is begging students to stop blowing up their laptops
Introducing the Chromebook Challenge: a TikTok craze that is—quite literally—fire
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“These companies are targeting our kids”: The chair of the TDSB on its decision to sue TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat for $4.5 billion
Rachel Chernos Lin says addictive social media platforms are driving anxiety, depression and violence in the student body—and she thinks the companies behind them should pay the price
City News
“Couples hire me to recreate TikTok trends”: Meet a full-time wedding content creator
Vanessa Buonaguro quit her job as a civil engineer to make wedding videos inspired by social media. She charges upward of $1,500 and is being hired by couples around the world
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I make my friend stop humblebragging on social media?
"My best friend is insufferable online."
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City News
Did Rob Ford get his foremost online impersonator banned from Twitter?
Anyone who follows Toronto politics on Twitter has run across @TOMayorFrod , an often funny, often weirdly sincere Rob Ford parody...
City News
UPDATED: After being transferred to women’s prison, Avery Edison’s immigration hearing says she can go home
Yesterday morning, we reported on the immigration situation of Avery Edison , a British transgender comedian who tweeted her way...
City News
Ontario’s lawyers launch a PR campaign to show that they’re human
The Ontario Bar Association launched a slick ad campaign today aimed at shaking the prevailing image of lawyers as greedy...
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Food & Drink
See what happens Ryan Gosling and Tim Hortons become one
Canada’s top acting brand, meet Canada’s top coffee brand. In a recent Tribute.ca interview, Ryan Gosling, who’s apparently...
City News
We launch our new commenting system—now comments are easier to make and conversations are better
Late last week, we launched Disqus, a discussion platform for our blog posts that will make it even easier for you to weigh in...
City News
The Maple Leafs are valuable and inefficient and have diehard fans, according to Forbes
Despite the ongoing, soul-crushing NHL lockout, Forbes magazine still published its annual look at the business of hockey this...
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VIDEOS: our favourite Toronto-made commercials from this year’s Cannes Lions awards
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is an annual pat on the back for the advertising and PR...
City News
Find out which city councillors are Facebook and Twitter junkies
In the spirit of both June and council report cards, Campaign School, a project from the Academy of the Impossible, evaluated city...
City News
Q&A: Daniel Debow, the tech innovator who hit the jackpot—twice
Rypple purports to bring the performance review into the social media age. Employees can receive recognition on a Facebook-style...
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Food & Drink
Pop-Up Madness: A look behind Toronto’s pop-ups, dinner series and roving restaurants
Rogue chefs are making some of the city’s most creative food in restaurants that are here today, gone tomorrow On a...
Food & Drink
Secrets of the Secret Pickle Supper Club revealed in new documentary
The Secret Pickle Supper Club is now a lot less, well, secret, thanks to a new mini-documentary. The two-year-old club got started...
City News
Celebrity Watch: Margaret Atwood is officially everywhere, from Twitter to Rob Ford: The Opera and more
The recent release of Payback , a new feature documentary based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, confirms it
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The Toronto Street Food Project seeks to cut some city hall red tape
The last year or so has seen a relative flourishing in Toronto’s once-moribund street food scene. But the barrier to entry for...
Food & Drink
Boy band + Twitter endorsement = teen girl pilgrimages to Lou Dawg’s for poutine and brownies
Marketers of cheese curds and gravy take note: the way to a young woman’s heart (and stomach) appears to be through her Twitter...
City News
Nicholas Hune-Brown: How to die on Facebook
When you’re dead, your Facebook page becomes a permanent digital gravestone, and your family and friends (and quite possibly...
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The Q&A: Why the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs Janice Gross Stein won’t be our friend on Facebook
One of the essays in your new book argues that privacy has become an endangered species. Can you explain? Threats to our privacy...
City News
How Deadmau5—a.k.a. DJ Joel Zimmerman—came to make $100,000 a show and have four million Facebook fans
A steady August downpour drenched Chicago’s Grant Park on the final night of the Lollapalooza music festival. The rain and the...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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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