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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because the Pan Am Games are leaving their mark
(Image: Derek Shapton) For years, Toronto has been a sporting backwater. When our amateur athletes excel, they do so despite meagre funding, anemic development programs and a lack of proper training...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because the city is our canvas
(Images: Erin Leydon) Four years ago, Rob Ford and his heavies were power-washing graffiti (both artful and vandalistic) wherever they could find it. In the po-Fo era, city hall is actively embracing...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara are the...
(Image: courtesy of CBC) It’s been a long time since the CBC has had a genuine, spit-out-your-smoothie hit on its hands. This year, however, the network released Schitt’s Creek, a fresh, acerbic sitcom...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because we bleed purple
The Raptors are Toronto’s current great hope of sporting success. For the last two years, they’ve dominated their division and scored a playoff spot—only to choke in the first round. Never mind:...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because home cooking has never been easier
(Image: Michelle Iceruk) Torontonians love to call themselves foodies, but finding time to cook from scratch five days a week? Sure, we’ll get to that right after we darn these socks. Companies like...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because our new library is a modern Agora
(Image: courtesy of TPL) Just south of the Scarborough Civic Centre is the Toronto Public Library’s 100th branch—a capstone for the busiest urban library system in the world. Decidedly contemporary,...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because Halal is coming to Yorkville
(Image: Gabby Frank) Between club king Charles Khabouth opening his swish steak house NAO, Rob Gentile launching his seafood-focused Buca, and The Chase group bringing their modern Japanese restaurant...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because there’s a Toronto app for everything
In the past year, local developers have created dozens of new smartphone apps that help make life in the city just a little bit easier. Here, our favourite techy time savers. Maegan What it is: A...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because John Ruffolo brought the tech industry...
(Image: Raina and Wilson) In the mid-oughties, as Silicon Valley swirled into a nerd-bacchanal of beanbag chairs and IPOs and coding parties, the Canadian tech industry was flatlining. Over the course...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because the Toronto Birth Centre makes labour...
The earth mother craze has reached an apotheosis in Toronto. To accommodate the growing demand for safe, hospital-free childbirths, the Ministry of Health recently opened the Toronto Birth Centre in...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because swanky rentals are coming soon
Hover or tap numbers for annotations. (Images: courtesy of developers) Toronto needs more rental buildings. As housing prices continue to climb out of reach, millennials and young families are...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because the Pan Am Games sparked an insta-hood
(Image: Erin Leydon) The Canary District, named after the greasy-spoon diner that sat on the corner of Front and Cherry, is a shiny reimagining of the grotty industrial land at the mouth of the Don...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because this guy made CanStage great again
(Image: courtesy of CanStage) Matthew Jocelyn was born in Toronto’s east end, but everything about him screams European bon vivant: he has a closetful of Yves Montand turtlenecks, a whiff of a French...
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because the Rogers Centre will rock again
(Images: Getty Images) You have to be absurdly starry-eyed to be a loyal Jays fan in Toronto, but soon (and we’re not just saying this) that optimism will be validated. The team has four impressive...
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Editor’s Letter: Toronto trailblazers, then and now
Back in high school, I was friends with the daughter of Bridget Lynch, a pioneering figure in the Ontario midwifery movement. Lynch was part of a small group of women who, in the 1970s and 1980s,...
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