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Toronto area code stereotypes: a guide to the city’s shifting phone-based social hierarchy
Each area code in Toronto comes with its own set of stereotypes that—rightly or wrongly—circulate with remarkable...
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Toronto’s housing forecast according to Garth Turner, the Dr. Doom of real estate
If the Toronto real estate market has nine lives, so, too, does its most famous prophet of doom, Garth Turner. Over a 40-year...
Real Estate News
TREB accuses the land transfer tax of pushing buyers to the ’burbs
According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, Torontonians are so horrified by the land transfer tax that they’re running for the...
Real Estate News
Suburban condos sales top Toronto for the first time ever
New condo sales in the 905 hit record levels in August, beating out Toronto for the first time. The numbers aren’t even...
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City News
CONFIRMED: Toronto gets two new area codes—416 and 647, meet 437 and 387
We mentioned a couple days ago that the CRTC was considering—“within weeks”—announcing a new area code for Toronto, a...
City News
Toronto is set to get a third area code, 416 holders set to get even smugger
The city is running out of phone numbers. Two decades ago, the GTA had to be split into the 416 and 905 area codes keep pace with...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2011
This year’s crop of restaurants, from a million-dollar dining room to a brazen burger joint, pushed Toronto’s culinary culture...
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Diesel vs. electric trains: study vindicates Clean Train Coalition on debate over rail line to Pearson (but the province is buying diesel cars anyway)
Finally, a transit story that has absolutely nothing to do with Transit City. This one’s about a basic disagreement over...
City News
Oshawa mayor wanted Toronto’s Transit City money to fund expansion of the 407
The city of Oshawa, fresh from electing a man to city council without knowing he couldn’t take the job, is now in an uproar over...
City News
GTA slowly becoming election battleground: Julian Fantino makes it to cabinet, Peter Kent gets a promotion
With the news breaking last night that there was going to be a cabinet shuffle this afternoon, all eyes turned to Ottawa, where...
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Food & Drink
Ed Ho pulls out of plans to open an Earth 2 restaurant in Mississauga
After many months of demolition and construction, and many dollars spent, restaurateur Ed Ho (of Globe Bistro and Earth ) is...
City News
Media treating Julian Fantino’s election as if the fate of the world were at stake
Apparently, all it takes to be the talk of the nation is for a GTA by-election to go your way. Vaughan, best known to Torontonians...
City News
Toronto’s former top cop takes forever to win Vaughan by-election
The Liberals managed to make the Vaughan by-election a tight race—so tight that it wasn’t called until after...
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Despite what Rob Ford says, light rail is best for Toronto: report
Turns out that David Miller ’s baby may not be as ugly as some were beginning to think . A new report says that Transit City is...
City News
Hazel McCallion dances on Carolyn Parrish’s political grave
Mississauga’s mayor for life, Hazel McCallion , has had a thorn in her side for four years, and that thorn is named Carolyn...
City News
Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
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Furious George on Adam Giambrone: “We should be glad he will soon be out of our hair”
Furious George has managed to keep his cool in public of late—perhaps his epic stroll across the city is part of his new Zen...
City News
From the 416 to the 905, Toronto area codes are about to get a lot more significant
With Toronto’s new area code looming, the Star is predicting a “long-sought bump in prestige” for the dreaded 647 digits and...
City News
Mississauga transportation department mistakes itself for fraternity
In what reads like an HR professional’s surreal nightmare, a manager at the city of Mississauga’s transportation department...
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At big-city mayors’ conference, McCallion comes out swinging (and Miller comes out zinging)
The mayors of Canada's 22 largest cities, just ahead of an annual meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, gathered...
City News
New GTA area code to complicate established phone-based stereotypes
Just when downtowners thought they had suburbanites pigeonholed under the convenient umbrella term “905ers” (ignoring the...
City News
MPP accuses Torontonians of not knowing who Bambi is
If the whole Toronto-as-its-own-province thing sounded like a bad idea last month, its current champion (not Mel Lastman , that's...
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Channelling Mel Lastman, Tory MPP wants Toronto to separate from Ontario
Bill Murdoch, Tory MPP for Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, is pretty confident that he knows what Ontario is and what it isn't. And...
Food & Drink
Anne Burrell sued for discrimination, picking the best rum, the Annex gets even more 905-friendly
• Although Amy Adams portrays her in Julie and Julia as a cute cubicle dweller wanting to escape , the real-life Julie Powell...
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
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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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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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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Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
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
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business