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Six in the Six: Half a dozen burning questions for Anthony Chelvanathan, maker of the world’s most controversial anti-homelessness ad
The creative director of the ad agency Leo Burnett talks about his elaborate prank on Leaside residents
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First they came for the Sam the Record Man sign, and we said nothing
(Well, actually we did say a few things .) Now, the CBC reports that another piece of iconic (or, at any rate, very old) neon...
City News
Subway ads imagine what life would be like if celebrity mags covered struggling moms
When Justin Bieber ( allegedly ) gets high on $800-a-bottle, prescription-strength cough syrup, the news is splashed all over the...
City News
Great Offices: Sid Lee’s lofty space inside a Distillery District landmark
What: Sid Lee, a multidisciplinary creative shop that specializes in architecture, design, advertising and marketing Where: The...
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Jesse Brown: Why music streaming services mean the death of radio—or perhaps its rebirth
Video never did kill the radio star. Neither did CDs or MP3s or even satellite radio, which tried to take down dusty old AM/FM...
City News
Pan Am Games organizers litter Toronto with...pianos?
The three-year countdown to Toronto’s 2015 Pan Am Games has started and, though the budget and athletic venues are still the...
City News
VIDEOS: our favourite Toronto-made commercials from this year’s Cannes Lions awards
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is an annual pat on the back for the advertising and PR...
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Culture
Curious about what product placement on Top Chef Canada buys you?
One aspect of Top Chef Canada that always comes under fire from our commenters is the ubiquitous sponsor integration. But...
City News
Three banks—and one surprise—on the list of Canada’s 10 best brands
Every two years, consulting firm Interbrand puts out a “Best Canadian Brands” list and the 2012 list of winners has a lot of...
City News
Should NOW get rid of its flesh-filled ads?
New York’s Village Voice is under pressure to get rid of its skin-tastic adult classifieds (practically a hallmark of...
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Postmedia hopes cutting jobs and Sunday editions can save journalism
In another sign of print journalism’s bleak future (and bleak present as well), Toronto-based newspaper publisher Postmedia...
City News
QUOTED: a marketing professor compares RIM to Hogwarts and its new executives to Muggles
— Markus Giesler, a Schulich School of Business marketing professor, trying to describe why making Frank Boulben chief marketing...
City News
VIDEO: the Canadian Paralympic Committee gets us pumped for London 2012
This minute-long video for the Canadian Paralympic Committee (which went viral this week after being posted on Mashable ) is an...
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Rogers Media’s new digital strategy involves shutting down eight of its websites
Something interesting is afoot at Rogers. In recent weeks, the media giant undertook large-scale layoffs across the country as...
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RIM was behind that lame anti-Apple flash mob
Oh, Research in Motion —we want so badly to love you, but you can be so embarrassing. RIM has taken credit for a flash mob...
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The Pick: photographer Arnaud Maggs’s turn as history’s greatest sad sack
Octogenarian photographer Arnaud Maggs keeps making himself over. He started his career as a graphic designer for an advertising...
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QUOTED: Janet Davis on the addictive properties of selling ads
—Ward 31 councillor Janet Davis , slamming the Toronto Public Library’s recent decision to slap advertisements on the backs of...
Food & Drink
La Carnita’s Andrew Richmond shopping for permanent digs
After drawing monster crowds for his La Carnita pop-ups, it seems design-director-cum-roving-taco-man Andrew Richmond is scouting...
City News
The Conversation: artist-illustrators Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu on art, wine and wolverines
The place: The Gem on Davenport. The people: artist-illustrators Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu. The subjects: art, wine and...
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Does a new naming rights policy mean Toronto has a revenue problem after all?
Mayor Rob Ford and his pals on the executive committee recently approved a policy for naming rights in the city, one that will...
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Tony Keller: How group buying sites have spawned a breed of fickle, bargain-addicted consumers that will never pay full freight again
Late last year , Marlon Pather, owner of a midtown meat shop called The Butchers, embarked on an ambitious plan to sell thousands...
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TTC inks an advertising deal—cue station naming rights bonanza (or not)
The TTC got its advertising deal . On Wednesday, the cash-strapped transit agency approved a 12-year, $342-million contract with...
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In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him
In the ’60s, McLuhan was hobnobbing with celebrities, advising politicians and forever changing how we think about mass media. A...
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Toronto District School Board acknowledges reality and allows young folk to bring cellphones to school
We’ll wager that this is going to make the deliberations about advertising on screens in schools a bit harder: on Thursday the...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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