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Food & Drink
New Food Classics, the company behind the E. coli recalls, in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings
Lost in much of the talk about E. coli-laced burgers (and confusion over what, exactly, a steakette is ), was the news that New...
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Culture
HMV looking at closing stores in Canada as music sales appear to be capital-D doomed
This manages to be even less surprising than the Blockbuster bankruptcy filing in the United States: according to The Daily...
City News
Panel recommends “considerable downsizing” to Pride festival, along with new ways Pride Toronto can avoid another lousy year
Last year, it’s safe to say, will not go down in the history books as Pride Toronto’s greatest. There was the Queers Against...
City News
Pride Toronto’s severe case of TGIF: how the gay and lesbian festival ended up having one of its worst weeks ever
This has been a nasty week for Pride Toronto. The bad news started on Wednesday, when it came out that Pride had overspent its...
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City News
Pride Toronto almost bankrupt, thanks to pulled federal funding and QUAIA fiasco
Last year wasn’t one of the best on record for Toronto Pride. It had the controversy around Queers Against Israeli Apartheid...
City News
Gold Wars: inside Toronto’s cash-for-gold battle
What happens when two gold buyers set up shop kitty-corner to each other in a rabidly competitive industry? A tale of death threats and gunshots in the night at Bathurst and Glencairn
City News
Actor Randy Quaid seeks Canadian refugee status
Sometimes famous people do crazy things, and sometimes they do it in Canada; when that happens, we'll be there to slap on a pair...
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City News
Blockbuster’s belly up: least surprising bankruptcy since David Crosby
On the heels of this week’s Netflix launch in Canada—with a pretty major PR snafu —comes the news that Blockbuster Video...
Style
Unhappy hipsters: is Dov Charney out at American Apparel?
With Tuesday’s news that pleated pants purveyor American Apparel may have to declare bankruptcy, shares plummeted into...
Food & Drink
Michael Stadtländer and Jamie Kennedy walk away with new Governor General’s Cuisine Awards
The Governor General’s Awards, heretofore known for honouring the best in Canadian academics and arts, have added a new category...
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Style
Death of the hipster? American Apparel in serious financial trouble
We might soon be shopping for our low-cut V-neck tees at Urban Outfitters, because American Apparel is in some dire financial...
City News
Canwest roulette: Paul Godfrey bets $1.1 billion on newspapers, spins the wheel
This marks the end of the Canwest saga and the beginning of the Paul Godfrey saga. Godfrey, president and CEO of the National Post...
Food & Drink
Circa nightclub is officially dead, please fist-pump elsewhere
Circa’s doors have been shut for a month, but today the Star is officially confirming that the John Street über-club has filed...
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Skyservice grounded in latest Canadian aviation development
While reading the coverage of Skyservice’s sudden collapse, we can't help but wonder if the people running the charter air...
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Deep Dives
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
Almost
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