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Guillaume Côté's Leslieville

The National Ballet of Canada principal dancer takes us on a tour of his favourite spots

DARK HORSE

For years, Eric Lamaze was the world's top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans-the kind of life a person might do anything to protect. Inside the scandal tearing the equestrian world apart

Tick-Tock Trends

Three Toronto watch collectors share the objects of their obsession

All in the FAMILY

When a community hospital treats patients like family, magic happens.

Culture

THE BEST THINGS TO SEE, DO, READ AND HEAR THIS MONTH IN TORONTO

DIVIDING LINE

The Bloor Street bike lane has become Toronto's most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety, and the future of downtown.

Urban Diplomat

I own a house with a basement unit that I rent out.

Q&A State of the Union

Police Association boss is one of the most contentious jobs in the city. New president Clayton Campbell is ready for a fight. Step one: arguing for a $46-million budget hike

An influential rocker's return to his roots

IT'S BEEN 14 YEARS since Jack White ceased to be one half of the White Stripes, the Detroit rock band he fronted with Meg White.

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.

The Chase Full House

This couple raced to find a starter home in the west end before the birth of their first child

Booksmart

I dropped out of high school because of a learning disability and depression. Public libraries saved my life

Top Shelf

Four drool-worthy home libraries

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Marital Arts

Three Toronto couples who celebrated their nuptials in spectacular fashion

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

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

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

WHO EARNS WHAT

Groceries, rent, inflation, shrinkflationToronto has never been more expensive. What better time than now to obsess over other people's incomes?

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

Work Less, Live More

The 40-hour workweek sucks. Ambition is overrated. Life is short. Confessions from the new and intentionally underemployed labour force

Dinner, Party

Four resto-clubs where you can fuel up then boogie down-all without leaving the premises

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.

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

Lighting the way to more efficient treatment

Markham Stouffville Hospital's new GreenLight Laser is reducing hospital stays and wait times for prostate surgeries.