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James Chatto
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Salad Days
Three skinny feral cats have fallen in love with my wife and follow her everywhere like a retinue of tiny servants. It might be...
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Richard Bradshaw
News of the death of Richard Bradshaw casts a deep shadow over the old homestead. It reminds me of a conversation I once had with...
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Convent olives
My cousin Maggie and her husband, Angus, are staying with us on Corfu. They are farmers in Pembrokeshire (west Wales) and...
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Hot off the barbie
I’m posting early this week to give everyone a chance to participate in the World’s Longest Barbecue on Saturday, August...
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Pork and pinot
My daughter has secured a summer job as staff photographer at a camp near Minden. She returns to the city for three days while the...
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Four entrances and an exit
I went to Amaya on Thursday and enjoyed myself no end. Call the cooking there New Indian or Contemporary Subcontinental—or...
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Too much alone
Still eating my way through the 45 pounds of wild salmon I caught . Grilled, poached, roasted, fried, sliced into sashimi, turned...
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Crystal Five
I was sitting in the ROM’s new restaurant, C5, late last week, when the mimolette question arose yet again. Properly aged...
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Gluttons
To Winnipeg on a flying visit to eat at Gluttons, the specialty food store and bistro at 842 Corydon Avenue (204-475-5714). It’s...
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Chinook thaw
Just when I thought the little single-prop Beaver sea plane was going to crash into the rocky pine forest that lined the shores, I...
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More nonsense
“Izzy wizzy, let’s get busy!” The immortal words of Sooty, mute yellow bear glove puppet of my youth, have clearly been...
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In the raw
I’ve been spending some time with Patrick McMurray’s new book, Consider The Oyster: A Shucker’s Field Guide , (McClelland...
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Nothing but the news
If any of you plan on being in Edmonton on June 12, come and join me for the first in a series of wine and food extravaganzas...
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Van Inn
The Inn at Manitou has opened for its 34th season up near McKellar and was looking very spiffy in last week’s hot sunshine. The...
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Hello, Saylor
An unfulfilled ambition for the long weekend was to get out of the city, preferably to Bloomfield in Prince Edward County to check...
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Willi Fida
Just about 21 years ago, when I was a bran-new freelancer with an occasional gig at Toronto Life , the food editor at the...
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Up the ramp
To Eigensinn Farm yesterday for Michael Stadtländer’s Wild Leek Festival, a fundraiser for local women’s shelters. It was a...
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The Wine Tasting Challenge
To Via Allegro on Monday for the awards lunch of The Wine Tasting Challenge. It’s an extraordinary competition, created by Via...
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La grande boutique
Now it can be told. Last Friday, Fatos Pristine, the laird of Cheese Boutique, and his sons signed the papers on a...
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Chin up, Bobo
The best places for lunch in Toronto? Not too hard a question. The Gallery Grill , Jamie Kennedy’s Wine Bar and his place at the...
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Steamed muscles
It’s amazing how a casual remark can alter weather patterns across the planet. Last week, I pointed out to a friend that I had...
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The cheese stands alone
Saturday was a most exciting day for this cheese-eating peacemonkey, when I had the signal honour of being inducted into the...
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New York and breakfast
Just got back from a 72-hour, 9-restaurant eating visit to New York City—not a feeding frenzy, more an exercise in relentlessly...
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Nostalgia not what it was
While I was away last week, I received an email from Donna Dooher announcing that Mildred Pierce will close its doors for good on...
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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