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Winter Beers: the top 10 craft beers hitting LCBO shelves this season
Winter beers are generally bigger, bolder and sweeter than their warm-weather counterparts. The LCBO's seasonal release, which...
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Food & Drink
Autumn Brews: 10 cozy craft beers hitting LCBO shelves this fall
Ah, fall. Crisp air, cool nights, and big, hearty beers that’ll warm you up like a chunky sweater. This autumn’s...
Food & Drink
The ten best summer beers hitting LCBO shelves this month
Any cold beer tastes great under a blasting sun. Some styles suit the warm weather better than others, though. The LCBO's recent...
Food & Drink
Ten refreshing spring beers hitting LCBO shelves this month
Despite what the weather forecast may suggest, spring is indeed coming. For those who need proof, the LCBO recently went public...
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Food & Drink
A new craft brewery and beer store is coming to Leslieville
Food & Drink
Eight warming winter beers to keep stocked this holiday season
On snowy, sub-zero days, the ideal drink is one that warms you up, inside and out. This year’s batch of seasonal craft beers...
Food & Drink
Go Local: the five best new microbreweries in and around the GTA
Five years ago, it was tricky to find a locally brewed IPA in Toronto. Today, you can stroll into any one of the city’s busy...
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Food & Drink
Beer 101: How To Age Your Craft Beer Like A Fine Wine
A little-known fact about beer: while most bottles are best consumed fresh, some brews actually improve with age. The way their...
Food & Drink
Cask Days 2013: gummy bear beer, plus five more weird and wonderful brews coming to this year’s festival
Cask Days, North America’s largest celebration of cask-conditioned ales, is a chance for brewers to get experimental with their...
Food & Drink
Eight hearty autumn beers coming to LCBO shelves this fall
Along with crisper air, chillier nights and overflowing farmers’ markets, autumn means bigger, bolder brews. This fall’s...
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Food & Drink
Toronto Beer Week Guide 2013: nine days, 55 bars and enough local brews to get you good and buzzed
The fourth annual Toronto Beer Week brings together more than 30 local breweries for nine days of enthusiastic citywide pint...
Food & Drink
We Live for the Funk: Bar Volo celebrates sour beers and funky tunes on September 14
Sour beer may sound off-putting, but discriminating beer geeks know better: the specialty ales, which get their characteristic...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s Festival of Beer 2013 Guide: tasting tours, barrel-aged brews and a chance for free admission for life
Toronto’s 19th annual Festival of Beer brings 60 brewers to Bandshell Park at the Ex for a three-day, beer-powered blowout, so...
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Food & Drink
Cold Ones: ten craft beers that are brewed right here in the GTA
There are more than 30 breweries in the GTA making excellent small-batch beers, which means you can drink with civic pride all...
Food & Drink
Ontario Craft Beer Week 2013 Guide: brewery tours, artisanal taste-offs and more beer than you can drink
The fourth annual Ontario Craft Beer Week brings together 30 brewers for seven days of boozy revelry. Over 150 events, including...
Food & Drink
Eight exciting craft beers hitting LCBO shelves in time for summer
The LCBO’ s line up of summer brews has slowly started appearing in stores since the end of last month. Bottles include both the...
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The 10 best new craft beers appearing on LCBO shelves now
The LCBO’s releases of seasonal craft beers have traditionally been the best chance to pick up unique and interesting brews that...
Food & Drink
Westvleteren 12, the ultra-rare Belgian Trappist ale, finally coming to the LCBO
Until recently, bringing home a bottle of Westvleteren 12, brewed by the 29 monks of the Trappist Abbey of Saint Sixtus of...
Food & Drink
Nine warming winter beers from the LCBO’s new seasonal crop
With winter weather fast approaching, and the holiday season not far behind it, the LCBO is raring to fill Torontonians’ days...
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Ten weird and wonderful brews at Cask Days, Bar Volo’s annual beer-geek jamboree
It’s a sign of Toronto’s surging interest in craft beer that the eighth annual Cask Days, which took place this weekend at the...
Food & Drink
A look at the hearty brews of the LCBO’s fall beer release
This week has seen the first sustained bout of fall weather, so it’s perfectly appropriate that just last weekend, the LCBO put...
Food & Drink
Our top four picks for Toronto Beer Week
The third annual Toronto Beer Week kicks off this Friday, with over 50 bars and restaurants, 25 breweries and two importers...
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Our top six picks for Ontario Craft Beer Week
The third annual Ontario Craft Beer Week kicks off on Father’s Day (i.e., this Sunday) with 29 breweries participating in 29...
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This summer’s patio-friendly specialty beer release from the LCBO
Back in February, we told you about the spring release at the LCBO that had beer geeks buzzing. The summer releases, on the other...
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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
Big Stories
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 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”
City
This insurance analyst makes $62,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“Groceries are so expensive that I rely more on takeout”
House of the Week
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
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.7 million for a whimsical custom-built home backing onto an Etobicoke ravine
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with a sauna, a hot tub, cave-like walls and nature all over
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.2 million for a new build by the Humber with a fireplace in a closet
The 3,900-square-foot property also comes with an elevator, a powder room with a swoosh sink and a playful blue laundry room
Real Estate
Surreal Estate: $6 million for a Rosedale Victorian with a bath fit for a temple
What property off Sherbourne would be complete without a floating fireplace, a 14-foot butcher block, smart-home tech and a deck built around a tree?
Real Estate
House of the Week: $5.5 million for a Lytton Park home with a cocktail lounge
The 5,200-square-foot property also comes with six bathrooms, automated everything, a ribbon staircase and a display for purses