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Food & Drink
“Sometimes people ask us to hide rings inside fortune cookies”: Co-founder James Chiu on Mandarin’s humble Brampton beginnings
The popular buffet chain started as a single restaurant with an à la carte menu
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City News
“Maybe Doug Ford isn’t used to hearing input from women”: A Q&A with Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie
On the cusp of a potential bid to be Ontario's next Liberal leader, she talks about the province short-changing cities, her lock on the burbs and changing the lyrics to "O Canada"
City News
A bandwagon jumper’s guide to the Canadian men’s soccer team
This month, Canada is competing in its first World Cup in 36 years. Haven't kept up with the team during that time? We've got you covered
Life
Real Weddings: Inside a drive-through reception with 570 guests—including Doug Ford—at a Brampton convention centre
With a two-hour wait and a take-home dinner
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Food & Drink
Where chef Bashir Munye eats Somali food in the burbs
His favourite restaurants and shops in Rexdale (and what he gets at each one)
City News
Brampton mayor Susan Fennell’s money problems just got worse
—The amount of money Brampton's city council voted on Wednesday to force soon-to-be-former mayor Susan Fennell to pay the city...
City News
Brampton mayor Susan Fennell’s support craters in a new poll
—The percentage of respondents to a poll by political consultancy Mainstreet Technologies who said that they would be voting for...
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City News
Brampton mayor Susan Fennell on phone bills, nice cars and “smear campaigns”
Susan Fennell’s poll numbers have plummeted over allegations of reckless spending. The Brampton mayor, running for her fifth...
City News
Brampton’s mayor is now under police scrutiny, too
The CBC reports that Susan Fennell, the Brampton mayor whose 265 breaches of her city's own spending rules were recently detailed...
City News
It’s still not illegal to just be racist, say Brampton police
The authorities have weighed in on a now-notorious anti-Sikh flyer (see to the right) that started circulating in Brampton last...
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City News
Toronto Batman “doesn’t have a problem with” Brampton Batman
The GTA now has two Batmans—Batmen? Batpeople?—but it seems unlikely that there will be a bat-on-bat turf war as a...
Real Estate News
Suburban real estate adventures: Brampton monster homes and Scarborough rooming houses
A bungalow-heavy neighbourhood in Brampton is seething over a partially finished 6,600-square-foot house (which the Toronto Star...
City News
The Audit: bank bonuses, the Blue Jays’ payroll and the month’s other notable numbers
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City News
Jan Wong: the simmering class war over basement apartments in Brampton
I once moved into an illegal basement apartment in Toronto for a newspaper series about working undercover as a maid. At $750 a...
City News
Toronto’s housing forecast according to Garth Turner, the Dr. Doom of real estate
If the Toronto real estate market has nine lives, so, too, does its most famous prophet of doom, Garth Turner. Over a 40-year...
City News
Hate sitting in Starbucks surrounded by squealing kids? Stay downtown
The 2011 census confirms what most city-watchers have suspected all along: Toronto is a working adult’s town. For instance, in...
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Real Estate News
Brampton residents battle over basement suites—which are illegal, apparently
Toronto may want for reasonably priced housing, but over in Brampton, residents are clashing over something this city takes for...
Food & Drink
Brampton man asks council to permit extra backyard chickens (proving his city is cooler than Toronto)
Brampton resident and sometime poultry freedom fighter Joe Arlotto is doing everything he can to make sure his city looks cooler...
City News
The last place to get a nice-sized home on a quiet, leafy street for less than $150,000 in the GTA—Twin Pines trailer park
On a bright morning in August , Judi Lloyd drove through Twin Pines with the air of a visiting dignitary. The preternaturally...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 4, Bannock Hazelnut Pie
This week’s episode of Recipe to Riches featured a show first that also happens to be a show last: a Toronto contestant. It also...
City News
Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Mexi-Can Market, a diminutive taste of Mexico in Little Portugal
Just over a year ago, Pavel Valdez, then 18, moved to Brampton from California to study business at Humber College. He’s already...
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City News
Russell Peters and Trey Anthony on jokes, race and jokes about race
The place: Cora’s Breakfast and Lunch in Woodbridge. The people: comedians Russell Peters and Trey Anthony. The subject:...
Culture
The International Indian Film Academy Awards took over an industrial complex in Brampton last night
On a typical Thursday night, the parking lot of Brampton’s Trinity Common Mall , surrounded as it is by big-box outlets of...
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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
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
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand