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Sample booze inspired by Canadian celebrities during Ontario Craft Beer Week 2014
Before there were whole calendar weeks devoted to poutine, burgers and the absence of gluten, there was Ontario Craft Beer Week, a...
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VIDEO: The Beer Store’s new PSA-style commercial warns about the dangers of corner-store booze sales
With pro-privatization sentiment at an all-time high in Ontario, The Beer Store may be feeling a bit threatened. That could...
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This Toronto guy started a petition to bring more Canadian beer to Jays games
It’s easy to vilify The Beer Store. It’s big, rich and ugly, and then there’s the whole government-sanctioned-foreign-cartel...
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QUOTED: The Toronto guy who’s drinking only beer for Lent, on resisting temptation
— Chris Schryer, a web designer and blogger from Toronto, in a recent interview with Vice about his spiritually motivated...
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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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Dear Urban Diplomat: should I let my son’s 18-year-old friend drink while he’s travelling with us in Mexico?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife and I are taking our son and our good friends’ son to the Mayan Riviera. They just told us their...
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Ten refreshing spring beers hitting LCBO shelves this month
Despite what the weather forecast may suggest, spring is indeed coming. For those who need proof, the LCBO recently went public...
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A new craft brewery and beer store is coming to Leslieville
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Beer in Corner Stores: one day, two conflicting polls, zero legitimate takeaways
People in Ontario really want to buy booze at corner stores. Or they really don’t. It all depends on which poll you...
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Ontario will get 13 new outlets of The Beer Store in 2014
The Beer Store’ s trademark caster belt may soon be a thing of the past. Yesterday, the Ontario beer chain owned by...
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Eight warming winter beers to keep stocked this holiday season
On snowy, sub-zero days, the ideal drink is one that warms you up, inside and out. This year’s batch of seasonal craft beers...
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Beer 101: How To Age Your Craft Beer Like A Fine Wine
A little-known fact about beer: while most bottles are best consumed fresh, some brews actually improve with age. The way their...
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Cask Days 2013: gummy bear beer, plus five more weird and wonderful brews coming to this year’s festival
Cask Days, North America’s largest celebration of cask-conditioned ales, is a chance for brewers to get experimental with their...
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New to the LCBO: Iron Maiden’s badass beer
Iron Maiden fans are intense. Just ask Marcos Motolo, the Brazilian priest who festooned his body with 162 Maiden tattoos, or the...
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Eight hearty autumn beers coming to LCBO shelves this fall
Along with crisper air, chillier nights and overflowing farmers’ markets, autumn means bigger, bolder brews. This fall’s...
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We Live for the Funk: Bar Volo celebrates sour beers and funky tunes on September 14
Sour beer may sound off-putting, but discriminating beer geeks know better: the specialty ales, which get their characteristic...
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Annual beer-geek extravaganza Cask Days brings more than 200 craft brews to the Evergreen Brick Works in the fall
North America’s largest cask-conditioned ale festival takes the small-batch brewing trend to its extreme: most of the...
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Summer Brews Guide 2013: the five best beer festivals in Toronto from June to October
Session Toronto Ontario Craft Beer Week, a province-wide festival of tours and tastings, ends in a Wychwood Barns beer garden. A...
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Beer 101: Our pocket glossary for aspiring aficionados, just in time for Ontario Craft Beer Week
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Ontario Craft Beer Week 2013 Guide: brewery tours, artisanal taste-offs and more beer than you can drink
The fourth annual Ontario Craft Beer Week brings together 30 brewers for seven days of boozy revelry. Over 150 events, including...
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Eight exciting craft beers hitting LCBO shelves in time for summer
The LCBO’ s line up of summer brews has slowly started appearing in stores since the end of last month. Bottles include both the...
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The Beer Store is giving four stores a boutique makeover
The Ontario beer chain owned by Labatt, Molson and Sleeman’s is completely revamping four GTA locations—College and...
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Another trendy new bar opens on the Dundas West strip
Montauk is the latest addition to the stretch of Dundas West east of Trinity Bellwoods park, joining Bent, L’Ouvrier and...
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Introducing: The Beer Hall, Mill St. Brewery’s new pub serving bierschnaps
Name: The Beer Hall Neighbourhood: Distillery District Contact Info: 21 Tank House...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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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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
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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?
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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
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“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
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“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
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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
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“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
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative