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Barack Obama, Shawn Mendes and all the other famous faces at Game 2 of the NBA Finals
Yes, that Barack Obama
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Culture
Ten things you need to know about Daniel Caesar, the Toronto R&B singer who got a shout-out from Barack Obama
His dad is a gospel singer, he was kicked out of high school and he once was homeless
City News
Some takeaways from Barack Obama’s $10,000-a-table visit to Toronto
The ex-POTUS was at the convention centre, and he had some stuff to say
Culture
Lunch with Barack Obama, a chat with Ai Weiwei and eight other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of September 25
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Culture
A Toronto photographer describes what it was like to shoot Donald Trump (and seven other big-name celebs)
Including Barack Obama, Leonard Cohen, Snoop Dogg and more
City News
Q&A: David MacNaughton, Justin Trudeau’s man in Washington D.C.
A talk with Canada’s new ambassador to the U.S.
Style
Q&A: Lucian Matis, the guy who designed Sophie Trudeau’s White House wardrobe
Our Six in the Six interview with the latest person to earn Canada's most coveted fashion endorsement
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City News
Who had the best zingers: Trudeau or Obama?
All the week's best diplomatic dad humour
Culture
Drake Diary: In which Drake shoots a Super Bowl commercial
What Drake did this week
Food & Drink
What beers best represent Canada? Here’s what the PM chose
In the midst of all the Sochi hockey madness, our PM challenged American pres Barack Obama to a friendly gentlemen’s wager: a...
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Culture
Rob Ford is in a new Korn music video
Attention! Anyone who wore a lot of black t-shirts and baggy pants to school between 1996 and 1999: Korn misses you, and would...
City News
Justin Bieber gets Rob Ford’s sympathy after both face assault-related accusations
How do we know that Justin Bieber ’s latest legal scrape is serious? Even Rob Ford feels sorry for him. "He's a young guy," the...
City News
A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is...
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City News
What Toronto Needs Now: Richard Florida offers a manifesto for a new model of leadership
The city’s great period of growth won’t continue if we don’t enlist the best and brightest minds from Bay Street, the...
City News
Editor’s Letter (November 2012): Toronto’s glossy new global appeal
The U.S. presidential race has been depressing to watch. The portrait of America that has emerged from the conventions and the...
City News
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...
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City News
Camera: Karl Rove and friends duke it out for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies
Allstream Centre, May 29. Some 2,100 guests of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies gathered for what...
City News
Why was President Obama at the wedding of a Toronto MPP’s son?
There’s just something about the slow-jamming, fly-swatting president of the United States—all Barack Obama had to do was show...
City News
Toronto vs. Chicago: mayors, ballparks and nicknames edition
Emanuel served as an advisor to both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, has a Hollywood uber-agent for a brother and won a scholarship...
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City News
Return of the Dads: one Scarborough father’s simple solution to his community’s most taboo problem
The most taboo question in Toronto’s Caribbean and African communities is why half of black fathers refuse to help raise their...
Food & Drink
Horsemeat poised to make a comeback in the U.S.
Top Chef Canada made headlines (and alienated horse lovers everywhere) earlier this year when it featured horsemeat during a...
City News
How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
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City News
Watch a comparison between strikingly similar ads: one for Stephen Harper, one for a U.S. Republican candidate
The Liberal Party of Canada is sending around a video implying that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has borrowed American...
Food & Drink
American chain Five Guys wades into Toronto’s burger wars
Subway may have just surpassed McDonald’s as the world’s largest food chain, but that doesn’t mean the burger craze is...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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,
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
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
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
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