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GMP, Bay Street’s (struggling) version of Goldman Sachs, cuts salaries and charitable giving
With Canada’s biggest banks becoming ever more dominant, Bay Street’s independent brokerages are finding it harder to keep...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Sliced, a new grab-and-go sandwich shop on Bay Street
“We wanted to get pre-packaged food away from the gas station stigma,” says Jordana Appugliesi, co-owner of the new Bay Street...
City News
Editor’s Letter (March 2012): technology, innovation and the importance of making products of real value
Five years ago, I was living in Brooklyn, where I was a member of a not-for-profit neighbourhood organization called Park Slope...
City News
Almost Rich: an examination of the true cost of city living and why rich is never rich enough
An income of $196,000 places you in the country’s top one per cent of earners. But does it make you wealthy? The Western world...
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City News
Bay Street bigwigs, including Mark Mobius and David Bissett, share the secrets of finance
Finance types aren’t known for their reticence (the fast-talking Gordon Gecko stereotype exists for a reason), but still, the...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $5.5 million for Canada AM co-host Valerie Pringle’s Casa Loma mansion
ADDRESS: 3 Clarendon Crescent NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma AGENT: Leanne Weld, Royal LePage J&D Division, Brokerage PRICE: $5,495,000...
City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
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Food & Drink
Prairie Girl to open second Financial District cupcake shop (UPDATED)
Less than a year after opening up shop on Victoria Street, Jean Blacklock, the Bay Street escapee behind Prairie Girl Bakery , has...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best five restaurants to go for a business lunch
The top five spots to break bread, dent the expense account and sign a deal while you’re at it (Image: Aria’s red wine–cured...
City News
TMX board backs Maple Group takeover bid after four months of negotiations
The TMX board has come around to the once-hostile $3.8-million takeover bid by Maple Group, a consortium of 13 Canadian...
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City News
Reaction roundup: local media have a difficult time saying anything interesting about Occupy Toronto
The Occupy Everywhere movement spread to Canada on Saturday, with protesters setting up camp in St. James Park in Toronto, among...
City News
The Q & A: former Bay Streeter Andrew Galloway sympathizes with the crack addicts he counsels on Intervention Canada—because he used to be one
Now you’re a successful rehab therapist, but 10 years ago, you were working on Bay Street, hooked on booze and crack. How bad...
City News
Look out, greedy corporate types—New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement is coming to the Big Smoke to protest you
Word is protesters are planning to camp out on Bay Street in the coming weeks. But because Occupy Toronto organizers didn’t...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Bannock, Oliver and Bonacini’s new café and restaurant at The Bay’s flagship store
It’s no secret that Hudson’s Bay Co. has undergone some big changes in recent years. The retailer’s revitalization project...
City News
Toronto developer announces it will use non-exploding glass on its condos
Er, wait, this was an option all along? After a spate of incidents involving falling glass showering the streets beneath downtown...
Food & Drink
Four workers at Ki, the Bay Street sushi standby, come down with the mumps
Ki , best known as the go-to sushi joint for suits in the Financial District, became famous this weekend for something only...
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Food & Drink
Summerlicious Lunch Pick: Bymark’s B.C. halibut
Summerlicious officially launched last Friday ( see our complete guide ), and instead of serving a second-string menu, many...
City News
Do-gooders cavort to conga beats—with K’Naan—at the Hope Rising after-party
May 3, Rosewater Supper Club. After-hours at the Rosewater usually means loose-tied Bay Street types swirling grand cru and...
City News
Jack Layton accomplished the impossible (with a little help from the anti-Iggy movement)—now what?
I should start by telling you that you’re my MP. That makes you my boss. Great—so you have to answer all of my...
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City News
TMX-LSE merger cancelled, Bay Street bankers rejoice
The proposed merger between the Toronto and London stock exchanges is apparently dead in the water. News broke shortly before 1...
City News
Why the proposed “merger” between the TMX and the London Stock Exchange is bad news for Bay Street
One morning in late January, 1998, the Bank of Montreal CEO Matthew Barrett and Royal Bank chief John Cleghorn paid a visit to the...
Food & Drink
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No.49, Dosas fresh from a tiffin
Midday in Mumbai, the streets are choked with bicycle-riding couriers carrying lunch in tiffins—stackable, reusable stainless...
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50 Reasons To Love Toronto: No. 3, Jim Flaherty saved Bay Street
Jim Flaherty is a pugnacious little jerk. Short in stature, he has the cruel eyes of a fighter, and the bent nose to go with...
Food & Drink
Flavour of the month: three new spots that change the game on sports bars
Sports bars in Toronto used to mean soggy nachos, face-painted guys named Big Mickey and eau de bleach mixed with stale...
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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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
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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling