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It's Time for a Birth Control Revolution

What the pill teaches us about the failure - and future - of women's health care

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

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

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

Dinner, Party

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

Lighting the way to more efficient treatment

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

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.

THE SECRET CITY

INSIDER TIPS AND TRICKS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER, CHEAPER, FASTER, SLOWER, TASTIER, SMARTER AND WAY MORE FUN

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

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

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

Art of the Steal

Why are plundered African artifacts still in Western museums?

Canada in the Middle

What role can we play in easing the war in Gaza?

Just So You Know, I Love My Mother

In many ways, multi-generational living makes sense. But that doesn't make it easy

Would You Watch a Play about Hydro Electricity?

How documentary theatre struck a chord in Quebec

Still Spinning

One record chain has bet big on a new appetite for physical media

The DNA Detective

RCMP officer Dean Lerat, a member of Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan, found many of his long-lost relatives using a DNA-testing kit. Now he does volunteer genealogy work to help others connect with their own families, fragmented by colonialism. The results tell the story of a whole nation.

Revenge Of The Renter

Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it's illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war.

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

Cost of Living

What Torontonians make and how they spend it

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The Making of a Superstar

Before she became a global phenomenon, Shania Twain was dreaming big in Toronto while flipping burgers, hawking jeans and fronting cover bands. Today, the queen of country pop is touring the world with a new album, but she's still nostalgic about the city that made her