Culture
Toronto Life
THE CHOSEN ONE
AT JUST 23, SCOTTIE BARNES IS SHOULDERING THE WEIGHT OF AN IMPATIENT, BASKETBALLMAD CITY, A HIT-ANDMISS TEAM, AND HIS OWN COLOSSAL AMBITIONS.
10+ min |
February 2025
Toronto Life
The Chase Full House
This couple raced to find a starter home in the west end before the birth of their first child
2 min |
February 2025
Toronto Life
Booksmart
I dropped out of high school because of a learning disability and depression. Public libraries saved my life
4 min |
September 2024
Toronto Life
Top Shelf
Four drool-worthy home libraries
6 min |
September 2024
Toronto Life
The Giver
Media mogul Gary Slaight donates a lot of money$15 million to this, $30 million to that-and he's not above shaming his wealthy friends into doing the same
3 min |
September 2024
Toronto Life
TRAIN WRECK
Toronto residents in the path of Ontario Line construction are living in a bone-rattling, foundation-cracking, rat-infested hellscape. True tales from the epicentre
10+ min |
September 2024
Toronto Life
TURF WAR
For 148 years, the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then an old-money-versus-new-money clash erupted
10+ min |
September 2024
Toronto Life
The Cult of Wellness
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies
10+ min |
September 2024
Toronto Life
CLOSE TO HOME
A new inpatient mental health unit for children and youth will provide community-level support at Oak Valley Health's Markham Stouffville Hospital.
4 min |
September 2024
Toronto Life
Scatter Brain - Maybe it sounds glib to suggest that a complex neurodevelopmental disorder is having a moment, but if you haven't noticed that ADHD is everywhere these days, you haven't been, well, paying attention
Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it's all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower
10+ min |
July 2024
Toronto Life
Marital Arts
Three Toronto couples who celebrated their nuptials in spectacular fashion
2 min |
July 2024
Toronto Life
Strings Attached
Country music's barrier-busting cowboy Orville Peck is tearing through 2024 with a new album, new collabs and a new outlook on life
3 min |
July 2024
Toronto Life
On Thin Ice
As a competitive hockey player, I dreamed of playing professionally. When I lost my leg to bone cancer, I thought it spelled the end of my career
4 min |
July 2024
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 |