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Steven Page ditches solo act to tour with Goo Goo Dolls
We'd bet the CBC headline “Page to join Goo Goo Dolls for Canadian tour” had more than a few Led Zeppelin fans doing...
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Justin Bieber beats out Lady Gaga for artist of the year award
It would appear our rosy-cheeked boy from Stratford can do no wrong. Teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber went four for four last...
Culture
The CBC thinks we’re fat
The CBC's winter TV lineup was announced late last week, and despite the departure of “give the people what they want even if...
Culture
Daniel Barrow awarded $50,000 art prize
Artist Daniel Barrow has just won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award for young contemporary artists, and he's done it using the outdated...
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Culture
Hockey Night in Canada is going 3-D
Whether you think 3-D is the future of cinema and television or abhor it as a gimmicky abomination, we're sure everyone can agree...
Culture
Stratford Festival coming to a movie theatre near you
If you'd rather view Shakespeare from the comfort of the local Cineplex rather than in a cramped decades-old theatre, you're in...
Culture
Four reasons to care about the new Canadian copyright bill
Next week, the feds will outline Bill C-32, better known as the Copyright Act, which is expected to profoundly shift this...
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Culture
Gordon Pinsent is bringing Babar back
First Bieber, now Babar? Lately, it would seem that 80-year-old self-proclaimed Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent has a penchant for...
Culture
Trailer Park Boys creator threw out 2005 Gemini award after watching this year’s ceremony
Trailer Park Boys creator Mike Clattenberg thinks the Gemini awards are trash, literally. After watching Sunday's 25th annual...
Culture
Lake Shore’s list of enemies continues to grow
If you haven't seen the now notorious “sizzle reel” for crap Canadian Jersey Shore ripoff Lake Shore , act quickly, or you may...
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Is Canada’s high-low culture war a figment of John Doyle’s imagination?
For the second day in a row, the Globe and Mail 's television columnist, John Doyle, is boldly claiming there is a culture war...
Culture
Steven Page’s solo tour will include Barenaked Ladies songs
It's been a bumpy ride for Steven Page these past few years (a divorce, a cocaine bust, a band breakup), but the former Barenaked...
Culture
Peer pressure works! The Sentimentalist publisher makes deal to print more copies
Boutique Nova Scotia publisher Gaspereau Press has come to an agreement with Vancouver publisher Douglas and McIntyre to print...
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Avril Lavigne is very, very pissed off at her record label
Canadian pop-rocker Avril Lavigne finished recording her fourth album a year ago, yet it still hasn't been released, and now the...
Culture
Toronto school board’s art collection to be restored by AGO
It turns out the Toronto District School Board has a pretty unbelievable collection of Canadian art worth...
Culture
Celebrities will now fly coach to Toronto with the plebs
Stars: they’re just like us—thanks to budget cuts. That’s right. You could find yourself rubbing elbows with Brangelina and...
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Geminis to pay tribute to Canada’s favourite TV show
If you're one of the poor excuses for a Canadian who doesn't know what the Gemini awards are, it's probably easiest to think of...
Culture
Public denied award-winning book by territorial East Coast publisher
She's been a Giller winner for all of 36 hours, but already Johanna Skibsrud is at the centre of a controversy that has all of...
City
Russell Peters explains how his cars are like boobs
Let's be honest: modesty has never been Russell Peters ' strong suit. So when the Toronto-born, Brampton-raised comedian talked...
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Culture
The National Gallery art-share program: one less reason to go to Ottawa
We've all got one less reason to go to Ottawa, thanks to a new art-sharing program that will display items from the National...
Culture
Johanna Skibsrud wins Giller Prize, jaws drop
It was to the sound of numerous jaws hitting the floor that author Johanna Skibsrud was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize last...
Culture
Goodbye Lilith Fair, hello Sarah McLachlan and Friends tour
It's been an eye-opening year for Sarah McLachlan . Yesterday the singer announced her Sarah and Friends tour will kick off this...
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New book tries to prove that the Junos matter
If you, like most Canadians, don't watch the Juno Awards, a new book is trying to convince you to tune in. The new coffee table...
City
Revealed! Easy ways to get Jian Ghomeshi’s abs
Everyone knows that if you want to work in radio, you have to have a really great body. For all of you would-be hosts puzzling...
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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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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