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Summer 2025
Summer 2025

Wild Wild City

In different corners of Toronto, human and animal worlds are colliding in unexpected ways. From divisive fights over cormorants and coyotes, to the rise and fall of niche industries, to Indigenous-led conservation efforts for our small four-legged friends, Wild Wild City—rolling out over June and July—explores our shifting relationship with the creatures among us.

In this issue

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Editor's Letter by Inori Roy

Welcome to the (Urban) Jungle

Growing a city means constantly pushing up against the border between the urban and the wild. From coyotes to cormorants, how do we share space with creatures we don’t always like?

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Feature by Wency Leung

Bird Flu Comes For Toronto’s Wildlife

For humans, the virus has the potential to spark the next pandemic. But for wildlife, it's already causing devastation.

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Essay by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Are There More Bunnies in Toronto?

I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then they were everywhere. Then I lost my mind.

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Feature by Leah Borts-Kuperman

End Times at Ontario’s Roadside Zoos?

Ontario’s lax regulations have made the province the “wild west” for exotic animals. But as public concern over animal welfare grows, some zoos are buckling under the pressure.

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Feature by Alexandra Kimball with photography by Andrew Budziak

The Cormorant Wars

The Toronto waterfront is home to the largest colony of cormorants in North America. And now they're spreading—squawking, puking, leaving toxic guano. Inside the fight between residents, conservationists, and governments over the most divisive and persecuted bird on the planet.