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Food & Drink
Help for the home cook: Afrim Pristine’s awesome “Embrace the Stinky” Bread
Afrim Pristine, Ontario Cheese Ambassador, Maître Fromager, owner of Toronto’s Cheese Boutique and all-around culinary dynamo...
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A selection of summer sippers to quench any thirst
This sure is the weirdest summer in recent memory, but the core elements are intrinsically the same: we still have great...
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Help for the home cook: chef Craig Harding’s fluffy ricotta pancakes
Craig Harding has been the driving force behind some of Toronto’s most beloved restaurants, including the late, great Italian...
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Help for the home cook: chef Alida Solomon’s eggplant meatballs
Alida Solomon is a chef with an enviable pedigree. For six years, she lived and worked in Montalcino, Tuscany, where her cooking...
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Help for the home cook: Cory Vitiello’s super burrata salad
Toronto celebrity chef Cory Vitiello has founded and operated the award-winning restaurants The Harbord Room, THR & Co and Flock...
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Help for the home cook: chef Missy Hui’s delicious potato rosti
If you want to change up your self-isolation mealtime repertoire, then Toronto chef Missy Hui has a recipe for you. Hui is among...
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Culture
Highlights of Elevate King West, September 25 and 26
For full schedule, see Elevate.ca 1. Movie Night at Belgian Moon Brewery At the west end of the Stackt Market, Belgian Moon...
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Culture
Eight innovators pick the next moonshot
In the 1960s, scientific innovation became a mainstream event as the greatest minds from around the globe raced to put a person on...
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What Elevate’s top minds are reading right now
The Elevate Festival sees some of the world’s savviest authors take the stage to share their ideas and spread inspiration. But...
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Innovation secrets from entrepreneur extraordinaire Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso hustles. Hard. The acclaimed entrepreneur started Nasty Gal in 2006, at age 22, selling vintage clothes on eBay out...
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See Martha Stewart and Michelle Obama onstage at Elevate
If the ancient maxim is to be believed, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But apparently, an old Dogg (well, Snoop is 47)...
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Style
Nordstrom has the best holiday gifts for everyone (and every price)
Dear Nordstrom fans: We've taken the liberty of scouring through the freshest cuts at your beloved Yorkdale and Toronto Eaton...
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The insiders’ guide to Elevate
A recurring theme at Elevate is generational impact: how the future is being shaped by people and ideas in technology. That’s...
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Toronto’s condo towers have become hotbeds of lawsuits, harassment and fistfights
Cranky empty nesters, party-loving hipsters and screaming babies are living cheek by jowl
Monster Mash
On Guillermo del Toro’s gruesome horror series The Strain, vampires are the new bioterrorists The vampires on the new series The...
The great burnout: recession survivors didn’t count on the surge in workload, the smaller paycheque and the all-consuming resentment. A story about workplace hell with no escape
It’s been three years since the mass cull of the Great Recession began. Three years since all those jobs were zapped into...
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Bubble Trouble
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Our recovery from the Great Recession happened faster than expected, we got in the mood to...
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Father’s Day gift guide: liquid presents he’ll be sure to love
Dads generally aren’t too complicated to figure out, at least when it comes to Father’s Day gift giving. For the dad who...
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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
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
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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
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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