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A baby pygmy hippo will be born at the Toronto Zoo
Move over, Moo Deng
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The Toronto Zoo is welcoming an adorable baby giraffe
We love her already
City News
You can buy a Christmas gift for all the animals at the Toronto Zoo
Ever thought about what a hippopotamus might want for Christmas?
City News
“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should”: Why this Toronto Zoo wildlife scientist isn’t celebrating “de-extinct” dire wolves
Reproductive scientist Gabriela Mastromonaco on the impossibility of truly reviving extinct species, the dangerous implications of this science for conservation efforts and whether tech bros with deep pockets are playing God
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“It costs $1 million a year to feed the animals”: How the Toronto Zoo is functioning without revenue
Toronto Life
went behind the scenes while it was closed to the public
Life
Toronto Zoo workers are on strike, and their strategy includes torturing management with bad animal puns
All the worst zoo-related groaners
Life
Here are some pictures of all the Toronto Zoo’s baby animals
Because why not?
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Even pandas couldn’t help the Toronto Zoo last winter
—Total attendance at the Toronto Zoo during the first four months of 2014, according to a new report . That's a loss of 9,049...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 18–20
In this edition of The Weekender, some Easter activities, Record Store Day and three more things to do in Toronto this...
City News
VIDEO: the Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub does a terrible job of revealing his new name
Jeez, bear. Get it together.
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City News
Toronto Zoo apologizes for almost giving its new polar bear cub a made-up “Inuit” name
Screwing up a clear-cut PR win like the naming of an adorable baby polar bear seems like it should be impossible, but now we know...
City News
VIDEO: the Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub frolics in the snow and continues to be adorable
Toronto's frigid winter and recent blizzards seem all worth it today. In the Toronto Zoo ’s new video, its now three-month-old...
City News
Watch a Toronto Zoo panda tumble in the snow
What good is having pandas if you can't watch security footage of them somersaulting through snowbanks? No good at all, that's...
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City News
See the Toronto Zoo’s new baby gorilla
Gorillas are huge primates, which somehow makes the baby versions even cuter than other newborn animals. Case in point is this...
City News
VIDEO: The Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub takes the most adorable first steps possible
The Toronto Zoo is the city’s greatest source of cute bear images. On Tuesday, we saw a delightful clip of a panda playing in...
City News
Here’s a video of a Toronto Zoo panda playing in the snow
There's plenty to hate about the city’s recent bout of extremely cold, snowy weather, but it seems as though the Toronto Zoo...
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VIDEO: The Toronto Zoo’s new polar bear is approaching peak cuteness
There's a magical time in the months after a polar bear is born when it's too tiny to maul anyone, and yet also large and furry...
City News
Toronto’s three lady elephants are moving to California in a month (for real this time)
Finally, after years of bickering and delays , Toronto’s prolonged pachyderm saga is drawing to a close. Shortly after...
City News
A tour of some of the Toronto Zoo’s cutest, cuddliest animals, including the prize pair of giant pandas
Er Sun and Da Mao, two giant pandas on long-term loan from Chongqing Zoo in China, arrived via FedEx in March (Prime Minister...
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Introducing: the Toronto Zoo’s new panda couple
After twelve years of planning, a pair of giant pandas on long-term loan from China’s Chongqing Zoo finally touched down in...
City News
Battle of the baby polar bears: does Toronto or Buffalo have the cutest cub?
Toronto got a lot less adorable in January, when the Toronto Zoo’s young polar bear Hudson left for the Assiniboine Park Zoo in...
City News
The List: 10 things CFL commissioner Mark Cohon can’t live without
1 | My indestructible watch In 1990 I went on an expedition to the Arctic with 30 Soviet and Canadian students. While I was...
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Two hairy-nosed, bucktoothed Australians are moving to Toronto (they’re wombats)
The Toronto Zoo will soon receive two orphaned, 14-month-old southern hairy-nosed wombats (unfortunately, yes, that is the actual...
City News
The Toronto Zoo figured out that people like baby animals
The Toronto Zoo has done really, really well this year by capitalizing on the near-universal soft spot for cuddly baby...
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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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TL Events
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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