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A guide to today’s Toronto dating scene
A primer on the best—and weirdest—new ways to find, dissolve, dissect or even fake a relationship in Toronto
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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because there’s a Toronto app for everything
In the past year, local developers have created dozens of new smartphone apps that help make life in the city just a little bit...
Culture
This new app lets women review the men they date—and makes everyone really, really mad
The new smartphone app Lulu is sort of like Yelp, except instead of taco joints, it lets users review actual human beings. Male...
City News
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...
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Jesse Brown: Why local tech wizards are taking their big brains and bright ideas elsewhere
When a University of Waterloo grad used crowdfunding to raise $10 million for his smart watch company, the tech industry took...
Culture
The AGO releases a free photo app that’s like Instagram, but artier
The AGO has just launched a new, free app named AGO Express Yourself, which allows users to take photos and manipulate them using...
Food & Drink
Tomorrow, an ice cream truck is at your beck and call (for only $12)
If you’re having trouble remembering who’s who among the various Toronto taxi apps, Uber has launched a delicious marketing...
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Toronto has another new car app—and this one summons regular-fare taxis
Toronto has yet another new smart phone app to help stranded urbanites find a ride. Tap’n Ride, the brainchild of Rosedale...
City News
Rob Ford really, really hates graffiti (but likes smartphone apps)
Roughly one year after Rob Ford began his war on graffiti in a St. Clair West alley, the mayor was back in Corso Italia with a...
Food & Drink
West coast firm launches Toronto street food app
Toronto’s insatiable appetite for street food has not gone unnoticed. Today, Vancouver-based firm Tatlow Park Software launched...
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RIM writes a list of terrible things that could happen (or already have happened)
Research in Motion’s annual information form isn’t as dry as it sounds—if you ask the Globe and Mail , it reads “like a...
Shopping
App–based shopping hits Toronto’s underground
Subway riders may be used to creative ad campaigns on the TTC, but commuters passing through the lower level of Brookfield Place...
City News
Jesse Brown: Why the latest multi-purpose e-readers are great for everything but reading books
The smell of an old book. The heft of a thick novel. The sensation of turning the last page of a ripping yarn with a freshly...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: the Toronto Life Best Restaurants app
The Dish is very pleased to announce the launch of Toronto Life’ s Best Restaurants app for the iPhone and iPad. Easy to use and...
Style
Toronto Zoo’s orangutans to get an iPad—and the chance to fingerpaint, 21st century–style
Apparently, Orangutan Outreach, an American conversation group spearheading the Apps for Apes program, is putting the Toronto...
City News
Reaction Roundup: can the PlayBook software upgrade keep RIM in the tablet game?
With the PlayBook’ s Hail Mary software upgrade now out the door, Research In Motion can only wait and hope it’s enough to...
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Jesse Brown: Why smart phones in the classroom equals smarter kids
Fears of cyber-cheating and sexting in school are so last year When Dalton McGuinty suggested in September 2010 that cellphones...
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Winston, a locally developed smart phone app, plans to change the way Torontonians (and hopefully New Yorkers) hire cars
A small Toronto-based team of entrepreneurs is planning to go global with Winston, a new smart phone app that aims to transform...
City News
A young Toronto programmer designed a brilliant app using raw intel from the TTC. Now, if only city hall would give him more data
A few years ago , the TTC did something surprisingly cool. It met with its crankiest critics—Toronto’s transit-obsessed...
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Natalie MacLean introduces bar code–scanning wine app for the wannabe sommelier
For some, choosing a bottle of wine from the LCBO can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. A new version of wine writer...
City News
Not safe for work: Why cyberslacking makes you the company’s most valuable employee
Your boss is reading your e-mail, spying on the sites you visit and recording your keystrokes. The biggest time wasters used to be...
City News
The app kings: meet the army of tech genius millionaires who are turning Toronto into the new Silicon Valley
Why bother with a boring office job when you can share code at networking parties, design games for smartphones and sell your idea...
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Yesterday’s News: a look behind this week’s Globe and Mail redesign
Phillip Crawley, the publisher of the Globe and Mail , is gambling $1.7 billion on a redesign that could revolutionize the...
Culture
CBC decides people can pronounce George Stroumboulopoulos, names show after the host
CBC's late-night talk show, The Hour, will undergo some changes when its seventh season begins in September. Relying on the name...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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,
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?
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
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
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand