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50 Reasons to Love Toronto 2011
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 50, Milos Raonic’s slam is grand
When you live in a city of perpetual sports losers, the appearance of a winner is disconcerting. It’s like a warm spell in...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.49, Dosas fresh from a tiffin
Midday in Mumbai, the streets are choked with bicycle-riding couriers carrying lunch in tiffins—stackable, reusable stainless...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 48, A Queen West company is developing mind-control computing
Much more conveniently located than a galaxy far, far away, a small tech company called InteraXon on Queen West is developing...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.47, Freeing the Human Spirit teaches yoga in prisons
Sister Elaine MacInnes is an 87-year-old Roman Catholic nun who is also a practising Zen master. While working in the Philippines...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: Nos. 45-46, RBC’s compassion and 3-D movies
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 44, The Lightbox serves Milk Duds
The assets of the Lightbox, the new home of the Toronto International Film Festival, are many: the intelligent movie...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 43, Energy Innovation is replacing dirty oil with flaxseed biodiesel
When Jon Dwyer, the 27-year-old CEO of Energy Innovation, was shopping around for a place to house his first industrial-scale...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.42, John O’Regan is bringing glam rock back
John O’Regan, the 25-year-old bespectacled frontman of the post-punk band the D’Urbervilles, enjoyed some modest success among...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: Nos. 40-41, Wild beasts roam wild in the city’s ravines
Toronto’s ravines have long been a hospitable home for wildlife. Now we’re seeing all manner of strange beast roaming our...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: Nos. 38-39, Loblaws new façade and Heather Russell out-cutes Justin Bieber
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 37, The TDSB is teaching students to i-Think
The TDSB knows something about complex problems—it’s facing more than a few, including a budget deficit, declining enrolments...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: Nos. 34-36, David Cronenberg’s new film, 500 hidden love poems and Ryerson’s new student centre
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 33, SickKids is closer to curing autism
Autism has been blamed on satanic possession, vaccines and frosty moms, but scientists have known since the 1980s that genetics...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.32, Suzanne Rogers wears whatever she wants
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.31, Southern Ontario’s craft brewers are making unique and tasty beer
It wasn’t so long ago that the only beer available in Toronto was flavourless and the colour of straw. Now we’re spoiled for...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.30, There’s a hidden watering hole called Goodnight in an alley at Richmond and Spadina
The first rule of Goodnight is: don’t talk about Goodnight. The hidden watering hole, located behind a buzzer-access metal door...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 29, The ROM’s rock, gem, fossil and meteorite clinic
There’s always a queue at the ROM’s bimonthly rock, mineral, gem, fossil and meteorite identification clinic. Last March, the...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 28, Sweetbreads are the new chicken nuggets
When nose-to-tail restaurants like Cowbell and the Black Hoof started serving offal a few years back, diners debated the...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 27, Board game-themed Snakes and Lattes is a success
At Snakes and Lattes, the board game–themed Annex café, the most competitive task isn’t winning at Risk, Fireball Island or...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 26, Kobo is taking on the Kindle
When Heather Reisman, the founder of Indigo Books and Music, began selling e-books in 2009, she made a choice that seemed...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 25, Bike-riding pinkos have a sense of humour
Last December, when Don Cherry stepped up to the mike at Rob Ford’s mayoral investiture dressed in a signature...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 24, Rob Stewart is the new Jacques Cousteau
Nine years ago, Rob Stewart, then a 22-year-old Toronto biologist, boarded a plane to Ecuador with his brand new underwater video...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 23, 68-year-old Tom Butscher rowed across the Atlantic Ocean
Tom Butscher, a 68-year-old resident of Ward’s Island, has an impressive athletic resumé of speed skating championships and a...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: Nos. 21 and 22, Beer and UFC liberation
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions