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THE CONVERSATION

EDITOR’S LETTER

This City

Lizard Brain • The ROM’s David Evans digs up dinosaurs for a living. This spring, he welcomes everyone’s favourite apex carnivore—and its army of giant cousins—to Toronto

Ego Meter • WHAT’S MAKING AND SHAKING THE CITY’S SELF-IMAGE

Cost of Living • What Torontonians make and how they spend it

The Audit • AN APPRAISAL OF THE MONTH IN MONEY

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels • How to evade the mad proliferation of urban swindlers among us

PLAY MATES • Three theatre heads dish on their favourite actors, guilty pleasures and the future of live performance

Urban Diplomat • I live with my wife and six-year-old son in an apartment that overlooks a central courtyard, and our new neighbours across the way leave their windows open 24/7. Fine. The thing is, they like to have their adult fun right in front of said windows, in broad daylight, all the time. I wonder if it’s a kink, because I’m sure all the other tenants can see them too. I’m forever trying to orient my son away from the windows, and it’s exhausting. Help?

TRUE GRIT • Baseball got ALEK MANOAH through a turbulent childhood, and he grew up to be a big-hearted bruiser with an electric fastball. He’s a good friend to have and a fierce enemy to face. In other words, just what the Jays need right now

HOUSE OF LIES

THE TORONTO BOOZE POLL • How realistic are Canada’s new alcohol guidelines, which recommend no more than two drinks a week? We partnered with the Angus Reid Group to find out what Torontonians consume, our favourite ways to imbibe, who’s going dry—and other surprising habits of a tipsy city

Sober Thoughts • Catherine Paradis is the interim associate director of research at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction. Here, she discusses the latest science on drinking and how it feels to be the bearer of bad news

Spirited Away • Our top five zero-ABV bottles right now

À La Mode • Spring is the best season—for longer days, double-digit temperatures and fun fashions. Here, six Torontonians open their closets and share their style inspirations

Suburban Planning • This couple was determined to find the perfect post-pandemic set-up outside the downtown crush

French Renaissance • Six of the city’s best new bistros and brasseries

Culture • Our picks for the best things to see, do, read and hear this month in Toronto

A Seat at the Table • In 1954, I joined a sit-in for civil rights in small-town Ontario. Seventy years later, I’m still fighting for equality