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A curvy new pedestrian bridge will link the central waterfront to the Port Lands
It’s planned for 2028 and will be shipped on a barge from Nova Scotia
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Real Estate News
A giant technicolour sculpture inspired by a Greek god is coming to the Port Lands
The “magical tree-like” behemoth will call the Lassonde Art Trail home in 2027
City News
A brand-new 98-acre island in the Port Lands is ready for its close-up
Toronto’s latest treasure, Ookwemin Minising, will be loaded with parks, public art, housing, zip lines and a place to park for your canoe
Real Estate News
Future City: An optimist’s guide to the green, affordable, Jetsonesque near-future of Toronto real estate
Featuring net-zero buildings, car-free neighbourhoods, rooftop farms and smart-home everything
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City News
Is Google’s smart city stupid?
Sidewalk Labs has a PR battle on its hands
City News
Toronto is surveillance capitalism’s new frontier
The city of Toronto now sits in the crosshairs of a uniquely 21st-century economic model that I call surveillance...
City News
How the Sidewalk Labs proposal landed in Toronto: the backstory
In 2001, when Waterfront Toronto was formed, Mel Lastman was in the waning days of his mayoralty, Vince Carter was the heart of...
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City News
Sidewalk Labs is the future of urban tech
A dozen or so years ago, I was recruited to Toronto to establish the Martin Prosperity Institute, a think tank focused on...
City News
A smart city should serve its users, not mine their data
The concept of the “Internet of things” refers to the spread of Internet connectivity to everyday devices:...
City News
Sidewalk Labs will attract and retain tech talent
At the Toronto Region Board of Trade, one of the stranger questions we’ve been asked is why we would support a U.S. firm like...
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City News
Sidewalk needs to integrate with the waterfront
When I chaired Waterfront Toronto’s design review panel from 2005 to 2017, our goal was to create continuity. Today, a promenade...
City News
A big city needs to take big risks
Imagine if the Raptors had kept DeMar DeRozan in 2018. Imagine if fans, sponsors and pundits all saw trading for an injured Kawhi...
City News
The Sidewalk Labs deal is unconstitutional
Once upon a time, some unelected folks at Waterfront Toronto blurted out, “Hey Google, what’s the best way to develop...
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City News
Toronto needs to maintain control of its transit planning
In the summer of 1972, Toronto east-enders had had enough. The Toronto Transit Commission wouldn’t hear their petition for a new...
City News
Sidewalk is our last chance to save the waterfront
Toronto’s Port Lands are the last big opportunity for the city’s lakefront. It’s a huge area, almost as big as downtown, but...
City News
Sidewalk’s affordable housing isn’t really affordable
Sidewalk’s proposal for Toronto’s eastern waterfront has a few foundational promises: first, that this Google company can...
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City News
Toronto can create a new model of urban development
Cities are the sum of choices we’ve made over decades and centuries. New chapters in a city’s history often begin with a...
City News
Corporations should not be controlling our city-building
Remember when Uber started? The story was innovation: the jobs, the convenience, the new tech sector. Now, 10 years later, the...
City News
De-identifying data at the source is the only way Sidewalk can work
When Sidewalk Labs first approached me to be a consultant three years ago, I told them that if they hired me, I’d be happy to...
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City News
We can harness the private sector for the public good
Toronto is on a roll, emerging as one of the world’s best cities. We’ve never been better or more vibrant. Economic and...
City News
Sidewalk Labs is Toronto’s best hope for sustainability
The Maori say we walk backwards into the future: we are so focused on our past that we do not properly experience the present, so...
City News
Toronto needs exciting new architecture
In 2017, Sidewalk Labs approached PARTISANS to design facade and public-realm architecture for Quayside. Like most Torontonians, I...
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Sidewalk needs to work with Toronto’s tech ecosystem
Toronto is not only the fastest-growing city in Canada and the U.S., but also the fastest-growing technology hub. All three levels...
City News
The Quayside project is a gift to Toronto’s public realm
In recent decades, Toronto has become a remarkably heterogenous city, with more than half of its residents born in another...
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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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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