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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $2.2 million for a Bloor West Village detached with two living rooms and a backyard oasis
At 2,500 square feet, the property also comes with a gigantic finished basement, Brazilian hardwood floors and marble galore
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Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The $1.7-million Bloor West Village house that shows it never hurts to drum up some hype
An advance marketing campaign appears to pay off
Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The $1.7-million ex-bungalow that shows the economics of flipping a house on Bloor West
Some real estate investors make a tidy profit
Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The $1.65-million Bloor West house that shows how much sellers stand to gain by leaving Toronto
Buy, sell, bye
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Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The $1.5-million home that shows just how much prices have escalated since 2000
In 17 years, after a few upgrades, a 430 per cent price increase
Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: The Bloor West Village home that sold for $550,000 over asking
A Bloor West duplex draws a surprising amount of interest from buyers
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Awai, Nathan Isberg’s new plant-based restaurant
The Atlantic's convention-defying chef is back at it
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Food & Drink
Where the Cheese Boutique’s Afrim Pristine eats comfort food on the west side of the city
His favourite delis, diners and dairy bars
Food & Drink
Toronto gets its first Thai bakery
Patchmon's Thai Desserts & More , Toronto’s first traditional Thai dessert shop, turns out trays of vibrant sweets and savoury...
City News
The High Cost of Cheap Labour
Union support can be the key to a mayoral victory. Members will put up signs, go door-to-door and get out the vote on election...
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Style
Book City is returning to Bloor West Village
Bookstores are dead, long live bookstores! Or one bookstore, at least. BlogTO is reporting that a new Book City is opening in a...
Food & Drink
Barbecue joint Marky & Sparky’s Smokehouse is opening in Bloor West Village
Butcher by Nature is launching a new smokehouse where co-owner Frank DiGenova and pitman Marcus De Simone are going to turn the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Black Rabbit, a new family-friendly café in Bloor West Village
Name: Black Rabbit Fresh Food Café Neighbourhood: Bloor West Village Contact info: 2312 Bloor...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.3 million for a family home (with income property potential) in Bloor West Village
ADDRESS: 410 Armadale Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD: Runnymede-Bloor West Village-High Park North AGENT: Michael Alexander...
Food & Drink
How Keriwa chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe would spend a perfect Saturday on Roncesvalles
I work on Saturdays, but my sous chefs hold down brunch so I can spend the day with my family and come in for dinner service. We...
Shopping
The Sell: A Bloor West Village couple reaps the benefits of downsizing in a surging market
The Sellers: Laura Ducharme, the 43-year-old host of Fido and Wine , in production for The Pet Network, and her husband Jason, a...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Earth Bloor West, Ed Ho’s massive new bistro and lounge
Earlier this year we reported on the closure of My Place , the massive Bloor West Village pub that lasted only a year. Many...
Food & Drink
Top Chef Canada contestants announced; we round up the six Torontonians who made the cut
We’re already on the record as counting down the days until the April 11 debut of Top Chef Canada (it’s 42, in case you were...
Food & Drink
Bloor West Village Guide: our 20 favourite places between High Park and the Humber
Though solidly yuppified, this erstwhile eastern European enclave has held on to its tradition of thriving small...
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City News
Risk Assessment: a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood guide to the safest places to buy real estate in Toronto
No neighbourhood will react the same way to a burst bubble. We talked to market watchers, economists, mortgage brokers and...
Food & Drink
Needles found in sausages from No Frills
Jokes about making sausages are as old as sausage itself. It is rare that people actually want to know what’s in their...
Style
New Bloor West Village shop Periwinkle taps into DIY trend
For years, Cindy Yong juggled a day job with producing her line of enamelled jewellery, called Cupcake, and selling it at weekend...
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Torontonians score the most honours at the national hairstyling awards
While most people were gorging themselves on tiny chocolate bars and mini-bags of chips on the weekend, the country's aesthetic...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: My Place: A Canadian Pub
Well before it served its first burger, Brad Long' s new restaurant was getting chatter. At 18,000 square feet, capacity for over...
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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
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
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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