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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.

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

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

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

THE SECRET CITY

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

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

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

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.

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?

Cost of Living

What Torontonians make and how they spend it

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

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