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Doug Ford says Toronto Islands residents are “squatters”
He didn’t mean to be rude, though
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“People are concerned that mainlanders will come over to party on the beaches”: Toronto Islanders respond to the reopened ferry services
"Two of the last three seasons, we were hit by floods, and then season four we got Covid-19. We’re used to adapting!"
Life
Real Weddings: Inside a joyful Island party with a musical parade
Including a boisterous TTC trip to the ferry docks
Life
“We feel like they’re only here for a show”: what Hanlan’s Point nudists think about clothed beach-goers
Plus: cleverly positioned freezies and beer cans
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Style
Street Style: The Toronto Island Jack Layton Ferry Terminal
The ferry docks saw plenty of vacation-inspired looks this weekend
City News
The 10 biggest moments in Toronto politics in the last 50 years
The councillors, cops, mayors and protestors who mattered most over the last half-century
Culture
Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because we have a magical mystery maze on Centre Island
In 1967, amid the confetti and trumpets of Canada’s centennial celebrations, Toronto’s Dutch community made its own...
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Relive Toronto’s long-lost, much-loved ALL CAPS! Island Festival
Late last summer, Toronto was witness to a tragically beautiful moment. The sparklers had faded, inimitable Halifax emcee Rich...
Style
Street Style: nude beachers, full-moon partiers and local celebs come ashore at Hanlan’s Point
Hanlan's Point, the part of the Toronto Island where you can find the city's only clothing-optional beach, is accessed by an...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it weird to hit a nude beach without going naked?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Some of my U of T law classmates invited me to Hanlan’s Point on the Island for some European-style...
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City News
Five things to know about Porter Airlines’ high-stakes plans for expansion
Porter Airlines revealed some big plans yesterday: the airline wants to add 15 new routes to its repertoire, eight Bombardier jets...
Style
Real Weddings 2013: a music-themed wedding on Toronto Island and Queen West
Date: September 23, 2012 | Location: Algonquin Island Association | Guests: 200 Alysse Rich and Daniel Field, both 28-year-old...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti’s most memorable gaffes, including the one that could end his political career
Although Giorgio Mammoliti leapt from Rob Ford’ s lurching bandwagon in November, the two city hall fixtures still have a lot in...
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Food & Drink
Food options on the Toronto Islands might finally expand (at least a little)
For a decade, William Beasley Enterprises Inc. held the exclusive rights to sell food and drink on the Toronto Islands. That...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Luminato, Woofstock and six other items on our to-do list
, woofstock.ca Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd., 416-696-1000, ontariosciencecentre.ca historic, renovated, original and...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti has some more ideas on brothels (like how to make money off them)
Giorgio Mammoliti (who seems to be everywhere this week) has a few more thoughts about Toronto-area brothels—specifically, how...
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Now that brothels are legal, Giorgio Mammoliti (once again) wants to put some on Toronto Island
The province’s Court of Appeal legalized brothels in Ontario yesterday , sparking celebration, awkward headlines and some...
Style
The Wedding Album: Kelly & Murray’s DIY affair at the Toronto Islands’ Gibraltar Point
Kelly & Murray | August 21, 2010 | Artscape Gibraltar Point View their wedding album » Kelly Rintoul, a 31-year-old director at...
City News
Council clears a (straighter) path for the Island airport’s pedestrian tunnel
One of the last pieces of business that city council dealt with on its third day of meetings yesterday was approving a deal with...
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Culture
This year’s ALL CAPS! indie music fest to feature camping on Toronto Island
Here’s some exciting news that we missed when it was first announced a couple weeks back: this year’s edition of the ALL CAPS!...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: a mansion in the sky at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Residences
ADDRESS : 183 Wellington Street West, Unit 4304 NEIGHBOURHOOD : Waterfront Communities–The Island AGENT : Cynthia...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Against the Grain, a new lakeside pub with a lakeside patio
For so long, Toronto’s eastern waterfront has felt like a barren wasteland (remember when The Guvernment seemed like the edge of...
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Real Estate News
Union Station makeover hailed as unprecedented, amazing and complex—or, simply, a “big dig”
One of the main reasons we like Porter Air and the Toronto Island Airport —aside from, of course, its proximity to downtown—is...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti entertains the press corps with island brothel idea
There are times where a good idea can be spoiled by lousy execution, either because the details are wrong, or because the people...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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