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TIFF Buzz Poll: Who’s the Sexiest Man Coming to TIFF?
In modern Hollywood, sexy comes in all kinds. No longer are the brawny hunks—à la Hugh Jackman, Matthew McConaughey and Michael...
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Food & Drink
Annual beer-geek extravaganza Cask Days brings more than 200 craft brews to the Evergreen Brick Works in the fall
North America’s largest cask-conditioned ale festival takes the small-batch brewing trend to its extreme: most of the...
City
The Constant Travellers: six local jet-setters give their tips for New York, Bangkok, St. Petersburg and more
We rounded up a group of the city’s brightest artists, entrepreneurs and professional tourists and asked them for insider intel...
City
Reason to Love Toronto: because Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista plays his best ball in R.A. Dickey’s pants
Baseball players are a weirdly superstitious lot: Jason Giambi slipped into a golden thong when he struggled at the plate; Wade...
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Food & Drink
Adam Vaughan proposes a Parkdale-style bar ban on Kensington Market
Once quaint and charmingly grungy Kensington is rapidly gentrifying. New gourmet food shops, including Thomas Lavers, Hooked and...
City
Rob Ford Video LOLz: The Mayor Mistakes The ROM For A Giant Crack Rock on Jimmy Kimmel
Earlier this week, Rob Ford suggested to Toronto radio station KISS 92.5 that the brouhaha at city hall is actually good for the...
City
Rob Ford Photo LOLz: Yard Art With A Very Literal, Very Anti-Ford Message
When the Rob Ford crack story first broke, we saw this discarded toilet sitting on a Riverdale home’s front lawn. The blunt...
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Rob Ford Photo LOLz: The Mayor’s Smiling, Suspender-Clad Staff Before The Exodus
Last Halloween, former Rob Ford staffer Brian Johnston tweeted this pic of the mayor’s entire team, who had a good-natured go at...
City
Rob Ford Photo LOLz: An Etsy Tote That Slams The Mayor While Carrying Your Organic Veg
Torontonians are expressing their outrage over the scandal engulfing city hall in ways both creative and cute. Graffiti artists...
City
Rob Ford Photo LOLz: The Mayor Gets The Saddest Birthday Cake Ever
Mayor Rob Ford turned 44 yesterday. Instead of getting a big bag of crack, a new high school football coaching job or a respite...
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Real Estate
Peter Munk is dropping dollars in the Toronto condo market
Jet-setting philanthropist Peter Munk, the 85-year-old founder of Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp., is taking a rogue approach to...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of May 11-12
In this edition of The Weekender, the Junction Flea returns, the Toronto Flower Market launches and three more things to do in...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of May 4-5
In this edition of The Weekender, the Contact Photography Festival, a block party with Jason Priestley (yes, Brandon Walsh...
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Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 27-28
In this edition of The Weekender, the Toronto Maple Leafs take on the Montreal Canadiens, Hot Docs and three more things to do in...
Food & Drink
Hanif Harji is opening a clubby new resto-lounge in the ill-fated space at 55 Colborne Street
Restaurants have never had much luck at 55 Colborne. In the last two years, both The Bowery and Osteria 55 have tried and failed...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 20–21
In this edition of the Stomp, the Toronto Bridal Show and three more things to do in Toronto. Stomp These eight...
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Culture
Six Toronto chefs battle for doughnut supremacy (and $10,000) on the new reality series
Donut Showdown
Food Network Canada is launching another competition-based reality TV show. Each episode of Donut Showdown begins with three chefs...
Shopping
All Downhill From Here: nine top-notch ski getaways
Ski-loving Torontonians have it rough. The city’s in a topographic dead zone. How else to explain hour-long lineups at The only...
City
The Argument: Marion Cotillard, Hollywood’s favourite French actress, gets unleashed in Rust and Bone
The first time I saw Marion Cotillard in the flesh was at this year’s TIFF. The jaw-droppingly gorgeous French actress was...
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City
RIM’s stock surges with a vote of confidence from CIBC
CIBC has joined the ranks of companies in the Canadian investment community forecasting a less gloomy future for beleaguered...
City
QUOTED: a diehard Toronto Maple Leafs fan on why he splurged on a $5,300 toilet
—Barrie-based lawyer, Toronto Maple Leafs fanatic and person with too much money and questionable judgment Jim...
City
Reason to Love Toronto: because the Blue Jays made a blockbuster trade
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QUOTED: Rob Ford humbly shares his personal experience with bullying
— Mayor Rob Ford, speaking candidly about being tormented as a child at a publicity event for Bullying Awareness Week...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: the new three-course prix fixe at Richmond Station
Carl Heinrich’ s new farm-to-table restaurant Richmond Station provides a much-needed alternative to the stiff dining rooms of...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Fall 2024
Browse through Canada’s top independent and private schools to find the right fit for your child
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Deep Dives
Meeting Mr. Right: What a Pierre Poilievre election win could mean for Toronto
Anti-Trudeau sentiment has officially breached the GTA. But what does the alternative look like? Here, 12 prognosticators weigh in on the impact of a Poilievre government for Canada’s largest city
Deep Dives
Ontario’s health care system is in chaos, and these doctors and patients are fed up
Half a million Torontonians are without a primary care physician. The search is maddening, exhausting and often futile. Dispatches from the front lines
Deep Dives
Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted
Deep Dives
The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind
Deep Dives
Michelin Men: Inside the making of LSL, Toronto’s wildly ambitious new fine-dining powerhouse
The $680-a-head uptown restaurant everyone’s talking about has three giant egos in the kitchen and one very rich benefactor calling the shots. If they don’t self-destruct, they may well produce something spectacular
Deep Dives
Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners
Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars
Deep Dives
The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood
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 overdose crisis rages on
Deep Dives
Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD
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
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Deep Dives
How the abuses of a small-town family doctor tore his community apart
Wameed Ateyah was the answer to Schomberg’s prayers: a family physician who took walk-ins, made house calls, gave to local charities. Then his dark secret was revealed
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2024
This year’s winners include a tiny perfect snack bar, a Japanese listening lounge and a high-flying steakhouse. What they all have in common is a fanatical commitment to excellence
Deep Dives
How Carley Fortune is reinventing the romance novel
In just two years, she’s published two runaway bestsellers, sold film rights to Prince Harry and Meghan, finished a third book—which hits shelves this month—and is well into her fourth. Here, she talks anti-romance snobbery, what makes a good sex scene and how sudden fame has changed her life
Deep Dives
The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
Before he died, William Waters transferred his fortune to his wife’s caregiver. His lawyers say she coerced him. She says they were having an affair. The untold story of a scandalous estate battle
Deep Dives
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
Deep Dives
My Psychotic Break: The postpartum nightmare no one talks about
After the birth of my first child, I split with reality. I had terrifying hallucinations, received messages from the spirit world and spent so much on New Age paraphernalia that I had to sell my house. A memoir on finding my way back to reality
Deep Dives
The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception
Karima Manji wanted it all for her twin daughters, Amira and Nadya. And she found a way to help them get it: financial aid earmarked for Indigenous kids. The fact that they weren’t remotely Indigenous wasn’t going to stop her
Cost of Living
City
This actor, bartender and financial planner makes $264,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’ve spent almost $5,000 on my dog this year”
City
This Wychwood couple makes $123,800 a year. How do they spend it?
“Ontario was too expensive, so we’re having our wedding in Mexico”
City
This Distillery District couple makes $120,000 a year. How do they spend it?
“I like fancy brunch and he likes dives—but all of it is expensive”
City
This registered dietitian makes $106,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I spent more than $4,000 on my cats last year”
House of the Week
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.4 million for a gated Summerhill semi overlooking a soccer pitch
The 3,500-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two underground parking spots, landscaping service and a fireplace on the roof
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.9 million for an enormous ex-schoolhouse near Trinity Bellwoods stuffed with stunning art
The 5,000-square-foot property comes with classroom layouts, an elevator, a kooky catwalk and skylights everywhere
Real Estate
House of the Week: This East York property nearly tripled its asking price in two years
The 2,700-square-foot home comes with a wine rack suspended in mid-air, 20-foot vaulted ceilings and a basement with nanny-suite potential
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.3 million for a quirky detached near Yonge and Eglinton that was won in a lottery
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two laundry rooms, a three-tier backyard and four bedrooms
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.1 million for an Edwardian duplex in Little Portugal sitting on a massive commercial lot
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with Moroccan tiles, a meditation room, a backyard workshop and a tire swing