Culture
Toronto Life
THE BATTLE FOR Leslieville
Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the opioid crisis rages on
10+ min |
July 2024
Toronto Life
WHO EARNS WHAT
Groceries, rent, inflation, shrinkflationToronto has never been more expensive. What better time than now to obsess over other people's incomes?
10+ min |
July 2024
Toronto Life
There will be blood
Bedbugs are-no exaggeration-everywhere in Toronto: our libraries, offices, schools, hospitals, hotels, transit and homes. Inside the always expensive, often traumatic, probably futile battle to eradicate the bloodsucking parasites that are ruining our lives
10+ min |
February 2024
Toronto Life
Work Less, Live More
The 40-hour workweek sucks. Ambition is overrated. Life is short. Confessions from the new and intentionally underemployed labour force
10+ min |
February 2024
Toronto Life
Dinner, Party
Four resto-clubs where you can fuel up then boogie down-all without leaving the premises
3 min |
February 2024
Toronto Life
Urban Diplomat
One of my friends has started policing strangers' social lives online. If he overhears people gossiping, he'll whip out his phone and surreptitiously record.
3 min |
February 2024
Toronto Life
Car Guy
Flavio Volpe built a $20-million concept car to show off Canadian auto parts. Now if only he could get someone to finance production
3 min |
February 2024
Toronto Life
Lighting the way to more efficient treatment
Markham Stouffville Hospital's new GreenLight Laser is reducing hospital stays and wait times for prostate surgeries.
3 min |
February 2024
Toronto Life
Saving Sila
Yara Abualjedian was nine months pregnant when the bombing started in Gaza. Her husband, Ahmad, was in Canada, 9,000 kilometres away, with no way to reach her. Then she went into labour. A story about love and perseverance in a time of war
10+ min |
February 2024
Toronto Life
BRUTE FORCE
Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd always wanted to be a cop, and she loved the job. Even when her fellow officers started harassing her, she said nothing at first. That's the codeyou don't go public, no matter what. But eventually she had to speak up, and it cost her everything
10+ min |
January 2024
Toronto Life
THE GOOD LIAR
Carolyn Krebs (alias Carolyn Goodman, alias Marian Linton) may be the city's most hated landlord. She ignores work orders, falsifies documents and evicts tenants without cause. How one woman is making a killing off a system that's too broken to stop her
10+ min |
January 2024
Toronto Life
THE SECRET CITY
INSIDER TIPS AND TRICKS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER, CHEAPER, FASTER, SLOWER, TASTIER, SMARTER AND WAY MORE FUN
2 min |
January 2024
Toronto Life
A League of Her Own
Sarah Nurse has won gold, inspired her own Barbie doll and earned a fan in Drake. Now, she faces her biggest test: bringing glory to the Professional Women's Hockey League
3 min |
January 2024
Toronto Life
The Killer in Suite 104
At his luxury high-rise in Vaughan, FRANK VILLI harangued and harassed his neighbours for years. But his greatest vitriol was reserved for the condo's board members, who he claimed wanted him dead. All the while, he was plotting their murder
10+ min |
September 2023
Toronto Life
CHEAT GPT
At the high school Abhinash attended in India, calculators were forbidden. For tests, including the statewide university entrance exams, students wrote out their equations in longhand.
10+ min |
September 2023
Toronto Life
Urban Diplomat
We live near a park that's part of the pilot project for legalized drinking. Usually, my husband is a relaxed guy, but lately he's become that creep peeking from behind the curtain. He notes every time there's any noise in the park and says he's going to send a list of complaints to our city councillor. I swear he knows the date and time of every can that's been cracked within a block of our domicile. Should I be worried?
2 min |
September 2023
Toronto Life
Cost of Living
What Torontonians make and how they spend it
1 min |
September 2023
Toronto Life
Q&A - The Greatest Showman
Great Big Sea's Bob Hallett was already a Canadian rock icon. With his purchase of the Regent Theatre on Mount Pleasant, he becomes Toronto's newest impresario
3 min |
September 2023
Toronto Life
Stop the Car!
The best roadside diners and dairy bars serve soul-soothing comfort food with a big dollop of nostalgia. Here, our favourite pit stops 'round these parts
5 min |
August 2023
Toronto Life
BIG LITTLE LIE
Noam Tomaschoff grew up as an only child in a tight-knit family of three. At 31, he discovered that his parents had been keeping a shocking secret-and the surprises just kept coming
10+ min |
August 2023
Toronto Life
LAKE EFFECT
The battle over the future of Ontario Place is pitched—and for good reason. Thousands of Torontonians spent their formative years there, learning the art of play, listening to live music and catching IMAX flicks. A nostalgic tour of the glory years
3 min |
August 2023
Toronto Life
Internet famous
TikTok turned Josh Richards from an ordinary small-town teen into a multimillionaire, CEO and venture capitalist. How to make a fortune via bedroom eyes, 10-second lip syncs and a signature 'do
10+ min |
August 2023
Toronto Life
Q&A: Critics' Choice
Critics’ Choice Before Celine Song was the buzziest filmmaker on the planet, she was an arty kid from Unionville. Here, she talks about what inspired her indie superhit, Past Lives
3 min |
August 2023
Toronto Life
Canine Comforts
Hair extensions, deep-tissue massages and mental wellness sessions-pet care has evolved in leaps and bounds. Here, five Toronto treatments that will leave your furry friend looking and feeling their very best
1 min |
July 2023
Toronto Life
Tips From a Show Dog Dad
Striker is a world-famous fluff ball who's won over 100 American Best in Shows and was the runner-up at last year's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. The most successful Samoyed in history is now retired at age six and living in North Toronto-but he still knows a thing or two about being a pageant pup. We caught up with his co-owner, Marc Ralsky, to talk about the pleasures and perils of raising a show dog
3 min |
July 2023
Toronto Life
Into the Wild
A school rumour made me think I was a bad kid, so I acted like one. Then a canoe trip-and an unexpected encounter-changed everything
4 min |
July 2023
Toronto Life
Cuckoo for Coconut
Toronto bartenders are making creative new concoctions with summer's nuttiest fruit
1 min |
July 2023
Toronto Life
Urban Diplomat
Since high school, my best friend and I have talked about seeing Drake live
3 min |
July 2023
Toronto Life
Nevertheless, she persisted
When Niki Grace arrived at Markham Stouffville Hospital, she was given an extraordinary gift: a surgeon who took her endometriosis pain seriously
4 min |
July 2023
Toronto Life
URBS VS BURBS
FIVE FAMILIES FIERCELY DEFEND THEIR CHOICES
10+ min |