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Breaking Brian Shin: Portrait of a Bay Street master and suburban drug dealer
Brian Shin seemed like the ideal employee. He worked long hours, dressed sharply and exuded sufficient swagger to fit in on Bay...
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Food & Drink
Q&A: Erin Wotherspoon, the woman who dates her way into top Toronto restaurants
Erin Wotherspoon became the subject of online scorn for her dates-for-dinner scheme. She says she’s just being creative in a job...
City
Q&A: Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, the Toronto shoe salesman who spent five years on Iran’s death row
Toronto shoe salesman Hamid Ghassemi-Shall faced charges of espionage in Iran. Now he's home, trying to pick up the pieces. What...
City
Q&A: MLSE boss Tim Leiweke on expensive Leafs tickets, his new Yorkville pad and Canadian winters
As the new president and CEO of MLSE, you’re about to become the city’s primary object of adoration or derision, depending on...
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Q&A: Ontario’s ombudsman on police thuggery, Robin Thicke and throwing snowballs at Dalton McGuinty
In the aftermath of the Sammy Yatim shooting, ombudsman André Marin wants to change the way cops use lethal force As the...
City
Q&A: U of T’s cyber-espionage savant on surveillance, anarchists and Facebook hacking
U of T’s Internet vigilante-in-residence, Ron Deibert, stalks the world’s most dangerous cybercriminals As the director of the...
City
Q&A: Robyn Doolittle, the Star’s Ford-stalking, video-watching, hate mail–receiving journalist du jour
You were a little-known reporter covering the municipal beat. Then the mayor does crack—or not—you watch a video and you’re...
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Q&A: Ripley’s shark wrangler Andy Dehart on staring down a great white
You’re the director of husbandry at Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, which opens this summer at the foot of the CN Tower. What...
City
Q&A: Saadi Gadhafi’s bodyguard on his boss’s legendary parties, fast-food habit and escape from Libya
What’s it like to be Saadi Gadhafi’s hired gun? Gary Peters, trusted protector of Libya’s playboy prince, lived to tell...
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Q&A: Toronto’s chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat on public transit,
The Voice
and taking a pay cut
You left a rather prosperous job as a partner at a private firm six months ago to become Toronto’s chief planner, and you took a...
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Q&A: Liberal leadership front-runner Sandra Pupatello on traffic, the TTC and marrying a Newfoundlander
Sandra Pupatello was McGuinty’s pit bull for eight years before decamping to the private sector. Now she’s back, gunning for...
Send in the Clowns: behind the desk with SportsCentre’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole
Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole can’t stop laughing—at fumbling athletes, at ranting coaches and especially at their own jokes
City
Q&A: disgraced cyclist Michael Barry explains how his doping confession saved his sanity
You recently admitted to doping while you were on Lance Armstrong’s cycling team, U.S. Postal, from 2002 to 2006. Why come clean...
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Q&A: Milos Raonic on his plans for world domination and his crush on Taylor Swift
He doesn’t just want to dominate the tennis world. He’s already busy plotting his corporate takeover Two years ago, no one had...
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Q&A: Brydie Bethell, the latest lawyer to represent Omar Khadr, reveals her client’s post-Guantanamo plans
Omar Khadr has been detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. He hired you last year. Did...
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Q&A: Wind Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera, the man that’s battling big telecom
He’s been trading punches with the three big telecom companies for years. He’s just won a huge battle. Here’s what’s in it...
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Q&A: Levi Bent-Lee, the man behind Bent and the son of super-chef Susur Lee
Levi Bent-Lee is opening his first restaurant, Bent, at Dundas and Bathurst. His dad will run the kitchen. Things could get...
City
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 2, because we’re pumped for gold
The posse of Torontonians who’ll invade this summer’s London Olympics is determined to return with more medals than...
Q&A: Paul Godfrey, chair of the OLG, is on a mission to bring a Las Vegas–style casino to Toronto
You were a popular politician, brought the Blue Jays to town, resuscitated the National Post and cleaned up the OLG. Does the...
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Q&A: Daniel Debow, the tech innovator who hit the jackpot—twice
Rypple purports to bring the performance review into the social media age. Employees can receive recognition on a Facebook-style...
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Q&A: Mark Ferguson, the trash-talking Buddhist at the head of CUPE Local 416
When he wins, the public hates him. When he loses, his members hate him. As CUPE 416 president, you spent 16 weeks locked in...
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Q&A: Patrick Dovigi, the NHL-goalie-turned-entrepreneur who won Toronto’s lucrative garbage contract
Your company, Green for Life, has multi-million-dollar contracts in Oshawa, Whitby and Hamilton—and now one for 165,000 homes...
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Q&A: Julian Marchese, 15-year-old day-trading savant
He created a computer program that can earn money while he’s at school. Who says today’s kids can’t manage their finances?...
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LOGO POLL: We grade the Toronto Blue Jays logos through the ages
Logos are like personalities, and the Toronto Blue Jays, in their short history, have had as many as Charlie Sheen...
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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
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: 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
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