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Ford, Carney and Chow are co-parenting a new streetcar line
Each are throwing in $1 billion
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City News
Toronto drivers blocked streetcar tracks over 300 times in just 11 days this winter
If a $500 ticket won't deter them, what will?
City News
Another driver thought the Queens Quay streetcar tunnel was a normal road and went right in
Do the security gates mean nothing? When you're driving an allegedly stolen vehicle, maybe not
City News
“I wanted to live near a subway station so I could travel with our customers”: Meet the TTC’s new CEO, Mandeep Lali
The incoming leader of the beleaguered transit agency talks gridlock and growing pains
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City News
Beware of POO on the TTC
By which we mean Provincial Offences Officers, of course
Memoir
“I organized a concert with Lizzo and Macaulay Culkin on a moving streetcar”
Riley Murray, a 40-year-old creative director from the Annex, hosted a lineup of celebrities—all while travelling along Queen from McCaul to Parkdale
City News
Nine times drivers couldn’t resist the pull of the Queens Quay streetcar tunnel
"Is this one of those drinking games where we all take a shot every time this happens?"
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City News
A timeline of Bombardier’s excuses for not building Toronto’s new transit fleet
All the times we almost got streetcars
Culture
This Toronto rock band played a concert on a packed streetcar
Inside Westlake's annual Band on the Run Streetcar Party
City News
A look at one man’s Lego tribute to TTC streetcars
Trevor Parkins-Sciberras built his own miniature Toronto transit museum, brick by brick
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City News
How a brand-new TTC streetcar arrives in Toronto
The TTC's next-generation streetcars, of which there will eventually be 204, are still a head-turning rarity on Toronto's...
City News
The TTC’s new life-sized streetcar simulator is not a toy—but it looks like one
Halfway down a long corridor inside the TTC's Hillcrest facility, on Bathurst Street, there's a room marked “streetcar...
City News
Good smells, big windows and 13 other things people love about the TTC’s new streetcars
The first two of the TTC's anticipated fleet of new streetcars—complete with low floors, bike racks, a new proof-of-payment...
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City News
Watch Andy Byford talk about the lesser-known features of Toronto’s new streetcars
With only a little more than a week to go before the first of the TTC's next-generation streetcars goes into service on Spadina...
City News
Rob Ford revives his war on all forms of transportation except cars
The mayor was in classic form on Thursday, as he told reporters that he still intends to make good on his age-old promise to rid...
City News
Answers at last: why the King streetcar is so awful
The King streetcar is the busiest of the TTC's surface routes. Every weekday, some 60,000 passengers use the line, making it more...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how should I fight people sneaking onto the streetcar without paying?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I ride the King streetcar every day, and lately I’ve noticed people sneaking on through the rear doors...
City News
You’ll never believe how ancient the TTC’s technology actually is (there’s a blacksmith involved)
Fresh off an apology for Monday morning's awful commute, TTC CEO Andy Byford appeared on CBC's Metro Morning today to talk about...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I offer my streetcar seat without offending anyone?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently offered my streetcar seat to a woman I was convinced was a mom-to-be, then smiled cherubically at...
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More evidence of a new era at the TTC: cellphone service on subway platforms is in; maroon jackets are out
As soon as Andy Byford took the helm of the TTC in March, the changes began. He opted for a beefed up title—“CEO” rather...
City News
The TTC embraces transparency—and (hopefully) punctuality with new scorecards
The TTC has introduced a daily online report card (the next phase in an information blitz that also includes this charmingly...
City News
Rob Ford says a TTC driver “accosted” him for doing something perfectly legal
Rob Ford’ s dislike of streetcars had until now mostly been limited to speechifying and pamphlets on LRT crashes, but now he’s...
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And the 10 most traffic-addled streets in Toronto are...
Sheppard Avenue commuters now have the dubious honour of spending hours on one of the most congested streets in one of the most...
City News
Gallery: our 10 favourite Photoshopped pics of the Union Station flooding
We are beyond tickled to live in a city where a subway station flooded with water and sewage during rush hour sparks not only 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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