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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #31, Zunera Ishaq
Ishaq altered the course of the 2015 federal election
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City News
Party Animals: who’s backing whom in the race for the PMO
Which local bigwigs are helping the candidates take home their share of the votes?
City News
Doug Ford says he’ll take Stephen Harper’s job, but only if he has to
Months after deciding not to run for leadership of the Ontario Tories, Doug Ford is once again openly musing about assuming...
City News
With Friends Like Harper: How Nigel Wright went from golden boy to fall guy
The corporate insider Nigel Wright engineered Stephen Harper’s rise to prime minister and became his closest confidant. As chief of staff, he acted as a conduit between Bay Street and the PMO—until Harper thought he could make the Senate scandal go away by cutting Wright loose
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Food & Drink
What beers best represent Canada? Here’s what the PM chose
In the midst of all the Sochi hockey madness, our PM challenged American pres Barack Obama to a friendly gentlemen’s wager: a...
City News
The federal government wants you to talk to it about paying for sex
It's safe to say that very few members of the public have ever wanted to sit down with Stephen Harper for a heart-to-heart about...
City News
11 prominent Canadians pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, from Conrad Black to Brian Mulroney
"It’s true what they say of Mandela. In all of our various conversations, there was never a word of acrimony, of rancour. I’d...
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City News
The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
City News
Reaction Roundup: the seven top responses to yesterday’s Liberal victory in the Toronto Centre byelection
“Liberal candidate wins in Liberal stronghold” is not a very exciting statement, but you wouldn’t know that from reading the...
City News
INFOGRAPHIC: putting mayor Rob Ford in perspective
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City News
Party Pics: Laureen Harper replaces Stephen, and Bill Blair wants to arm wrestle at the True Patriot Love gala
Stephen Harper missed Thursday night’s True Patriot Love Dinner at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, but his wife Laureen...
City News
The 62 questions we still have for mayor Rob Ford
Mayor Rob Ford's second press conference on Tuesday saw him read a detailed and repetitive apology for smoking crack, in which he...
Culture
See, Hear, Read: eight hot new books, albums and shows—including Stephen Harper’s hockey tome
The scoop on the month’s red-hot releases A Canadian Prime Minister writing a book about hockey is a little like an Australian...
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City News
Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole are leaving Canada for a gig at Fox Sports
Like so many Canadian television personalities, freewheeling SportsCentre hosts Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole are moving south of...
City News
Mayor In Waiting: an inside look at Olivia Chow’s political ambitions
Olivia Chow’s public mourning after Jack Layton’s death cast her in a new light: dignified, likeable and, well, mayoral. Toronto wants her to run, but does she want Toronto?
City News
Fetal Position: inside the world of Lia Mills, the 16-year-old leader of a new generation of anti-abortion activists
Lia Mills didn’t start Grade 7 with a plan to become famous. The year was 2009, and she was enrolled in a gifted class at Gordon...
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The Poser’s Guide to the Grey Cup: everything you need to know but are too embarrassed to ask
The Toronto Argonauts are playing in the 100th Grey Cup at the Rogers Centre this Sunday, which means plenty of Torontonians are...
City News
Editor’s Letter (November 2012): Toronto’s glossy new global appeal
The U.S. presidential race has been depressing to watch. The portrait of America that has emerged from the conventions and the...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: Michael Healey on mounting his controversial play Proud
Playwright Michael Healey mounts his own production of Proud, the savage political satire that sparked a storm in the city’s...
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Peter Munk is (inadvertently) at the centre of the scandal surrounding Stephen Harper’s chief of staff
Nigel Wright, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’ s chief of staff since 2010, is facing accusations of cronyism because of his close...
City News
QUOTED: Rob Ford on what happens when he and Stephen Harper go fishing
— Rob Ford, on how much he likes what’s becoming his annual fishing trip with Stephen Harper, the most recent of which took...
Culture
CONFIRMED: Rappers Snoop Lion and Ice-T are coming to TIFF
It may have felt like Californian rapper and frequent, uh, smoker Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg, formerly Snoop Doggy Dogg)...
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Rob Ford’s meeting with Dalton McGuinty is a triumph, according to Rob Ford
Rob Ford is claiming victory after Dalton McGuinty pledged $12.5 million to help prevent gun violence across the...
City News
Everyone seems to think that Calgary is awesome—and Toronto is not
The centre of the universe seems to have shifted westward recently, with a spate of notables, articles and polls suggesting that...
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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
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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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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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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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