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The Yorkville Swindler: how Albert Allan Rosenberg scammed his way into high...

To his wife and girlfriends and business partners, Albert Allan Rosenberg was a billionaire, a Swiss baron, a merchant banker with holdings around the world, the most charming guy in the room. The...

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Puckheads: inside the crazed arenas of the GTHL

The world’s largest amateur hockey organization is also a breeding ground for unscrupulous coaches, raging parents and miserable preteens By Rachel Giese | Illustration by Michael Byers Sometimes...

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McMansion Wars: inside the nasty neighbour-versus-neighbour feuds of Forest Hill

By Kelly Pullen | Photographs by Daniel Neuhaus The house that used to be at 212 Vesta Drive sold for $1.25 million in 2009. The buyers demolished it without a permit and erected this three-storey...

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The naked ambition of National Ballet artistic director Karen Kain

Beneath her poised veneer is an exacting perfectionist, a tenacious fundraiser and a total control freak. Which explains how she turned the floundering National Ballet of Canada into one of the world’s...

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The Break-In Artist: the hunt for the cat burglar who terrorized Toronto’s...

By Malcolm Johnston | Illustrations by Matthew Woodson The Fort Knox of Thornhill is a stucco mansion with a mansard roof, front-yard fountain and U-shaped driveway on the area’s most coveted street....

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The Kink Club: inside the secret world of BDSM

A growing cohort of Torontonians are indulging their wildest fetishes—and negotiating every slap, spank and lash of the whip. By Stacey May Fowles The Valentine’s Fetish Ball, at the Opera House in...

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The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all...

By Desmond Cole | Photography by Markian Lozowchuk The summer I was nine, my teenage cousin Sana came from England to visit my family in Oshawa. He was tall, handsome and obnoxious, the kind of guy who...

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The Charming Mr. Elder

Michael Elder used his family’s establishment connections to convince a who’s who of Bay Street to pour $12 million into his miraculous new device. Thirteen years later, the OSC is circling and a...

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The Bay Street Tinder Diaries: dating in the age of the internet hookup

At 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Earls at King and York is roaring. From the surrounding towers, players descend to blow off steam and seal the deal—with clients and that night’s conquest. This is their...

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The Cult of Jian: his life as an outcast, who’s standing by him, and why he’s...

I knew him to be a charming, if temperamental, narcissist who desperately wanted to be adored—and he was, until it all came crashing down. Now he’s surrounded by a small circle of admirers who either...

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Jennifer Pan’s Revenge: the inside story of a golden child, the killers she...

By Karen K. Ho Read this article in simplified Chinese 点击这里阅读整篇中文文章 Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was raised and educated in Vietnam and...

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Troublemaker: why Jennifer Keesmaat may be exactly what Toronto needs right now

The post Troublemaker: why Jennifer Keesmaat may be exactly what Toronto needs right now appeared first on Toronto Life.

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The Double Life of Ben Levin: his depraved online world, and the sting that...

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The Tenant from Hell: how a serial fraudster took advantage of Toronto’s...

The post The Tenant from Hell: how a serial fraudster took advantage of Toronto’s red-hot real estate market appeared first on Toronto Life.

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The Sex Ed Revolution: a portrait of the powerful political bloc that’s...

The post The Sex Ed Revolution: a portrait of the powerful political bloc that’s waging war on Queen’s Park appeared first on Toronto Life.

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The Amazing Adventures of Michael Snow: an uncensored history of Toronto’s...

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How Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke brought the stodgy newspaper back to life

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Back in the Game: Blue Jays slugger José Bautista’s high-stakes mission to...

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Trumped: the multi-million-dollar lawsuit over Toronto’s most controversial...

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Love and War in the House of McCain: inside the divorce that exposed the...

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The King of Spooky: Linwood Barclay’s rise from suburban dad to Canada’s...

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High times at Appleby College: inside a bitter legal dispute over discipline...

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The Real World: how Toronto is cashing in on the reality TV boom

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Better than Weed: the latest drug craze is a fake version of pot that might...

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The Oracle of Bay Street: finance bad boy Michael Wekerle is back, and his...

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No money? No problem. How more and more Torontonians are capitalizing on the...

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Moms on Top: the rise of power wives, house husbands and the new...

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The Dark Knight: David Cronenberg’s creepy obsessions say as much about us as...

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RAT APOCALYPSE! Toronto’s new home invaders are growing in shocking numbers

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Breaking Brian Shin: Portrait of a Bay Street master and suburban drug dealer

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Well, Hi There: Jian Ghomeshi, live and off the air

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The Baby-Making Business: on the front lines of Toronto’s booming, semi-legal...

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With Friends Like Harper: how Nigel Wright went from golden boy to fall guy

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In Lurv With Lainey: Elaine Lui’s rise to the top of the gossip pantheon

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Sin City with snow: secrets of Toronto’s VIP club scene

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The Captive: John Greyson’s time in Egyptian prison

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Stuck in Condoland

In a city where space is at a premium, tiny condos are the new family home. Learning to survive in 700 square feet

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Save me from my workout

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David Mirvish on the Edge

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Murder in Muskoka: How a mysterious crate in a cottage crawl space cracked...

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The killing of Sammy Yatim

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Battleground Caledon

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The Vaccine Truthers: why parents shun life-saving shots

A new generation of parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids

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The Family That Won’t Leave

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Gridlocked: how incompetence, pandering and baffling inertia have kept...

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The Man Who Would Be King: inside the ruthless battle for control of the...

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The Bank of Mom and Dad: confessions of a propped up generation

It seems like every 30-something couple has an embarrassing financial secret: their boomer parents are covering their mortgages, child-care costs and other expenses

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The Wattpad Cult: why Toronto’s buzziest tech start-up is a self-publishing...

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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014

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Gone Girl: I was a private school kid from Rosedale—until I ended up on the...

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