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Being Erica BS Detector
Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 13
We’re not sure what to say. On one hand, we FINALLY have some half-decent time-copping to do. One the other, didn’t last week...
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Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 12
So there we were, basking in the afterglow of Ma and Pa Strange belting out Buffy Saint Marie on karaoke (we knew we were in for a...
Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 11
The whole season has been building up to it. On some level, we always knew it was going to happen (we even know what it looks...
Culture
Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 10
Call us curmudgeons, but even in the realm of the supernatural, we here at the BEBSD appreciate rules of governance. (Like on...
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The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 9
Based on last week’s comments , some of you aren’t so fond of Ivan and Dave, the two bearish owners of Goblins coffee shop who...
Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 8
This week, the student became the teacher, or rather, the teacher became the student, as BE dug deep into Dr. Tom’s totally...
Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 7 (bad friend edition)
As far as time travel goes, this week—yet again—didn’t have a lot to offer (it’s kind of hard to time cop when the Back to...
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The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 6
TV time travel is great (see Lost , Quantum Leap , Doctor Who and episodes of Saved by the Bell when Zack would freeze time to...
Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 5 (badass edition)
This week’s episode was titled “Being Adam”—not a good sign, since we have yet to come around to Erica's Irish love...
Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 4
This week, Erica learns a lesson about living in the present by reliving the same 2010 morning over and over and over again. She...
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The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 3
In episode three, our favourite time traveller learns one of Gandhi's most valuable lessons: an eye for an eye makes the whole...
Culture
The Being Erica BS detector: Season 3, Episode 2
Episode 2 of Being Erica aired last night, and again, we’re left craving some more extensive time travel. (It’s kind of hard...
Culture
The Being Erica BS detector: Season 3, Episode 1
CBC’s hugely popular Being Erica premiered its third season Tuesday night. The good news: 1) With Lost out of the picture, BE...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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
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
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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
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