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A high-end consignment store stocked with hip, designer clothing opens on Dundas West
After more than two years managing Ossington boutique Jonathan and Olivia, Britt Rawlinson has developed a clear sense of what...
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Memoir: when I moved away from my overprotective parents at age 17, I was primed for trouble
I grew up in sleepy, suburban Calgary. My parents are conservative, first-generation immigrants from...
City News
UPDATED: The Royal York does not admit horses, not even semi-famous ones
Even though we’ll be cheering for the Toronto Argonauts in Sunday’s Grey Cup, we half-hoped Calgary Stampeders fans would...
City News
Seven Grey Cup bets we wish Rob Ford and Naheed Nenshi would make
After the Toronto Blue Jays’ Alex Anthopoulos opened the week with a blockbuster deal, Toronto sports fans were given another...
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What Toronto Needs Now: Richard Florida offers a manifesto for a new model of leadership
The city’s great period of growth won’t continue if we don’t enlist the best and brightest minds from Bay Street, the...
City News
Toronto (still) sandwiched between Vancouver and Calgary in list of most livable cities
It’s been just over a month since the release of last big livability ranking of the world’s cities by the Economist...
City News
Everyone seems to think that Calgary is awesome—and Toronto is not
The centre of the universe seems to have shifted westward recently, with a spate of notables, articles and polls suggesting that...
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Stephen Marche: the case for a downtown gambling palace at Ontario Place
A Toronto casino is inevitable. Will it be an ugly box built where nobody can see it, or a glorious five-star island of fun?...
City News
Postmedia hopes cutting jobs and Sunday editions can save journalism
In another sign of print journalism’s bleak future (and bleak present as well), Toronto-based newspaper publisher Postmedia...
Culture
Top Chef Canada exit interview, episode 11: salty language
This season, we’re chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
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Food & Drink
Where magazine names Acadia Toronto’s best new restaurant
This morning, Where announced its annual picks for the best new restaurant in each of the regions the travel magazine covers in...
Food & Drink
Grant Van Gameren teams up with Top Chef Canada’s Connie DeSousa for Calgary pop-up
Grant Van Gameren, former chef and owner of The Black Hoof and currently the chef at Enoteca Sociale, has teamed up with Connie...
Food & Drink
Year in Review: 2011 was the year street food finally took off in Toronto
After living through decades of delicious but pretty much uniform street meat, followed by a city-backed pilot program that ended...
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Why three prominent Chinese-Canadian writers launched a $10-million plagiarism suit against Ling Zhang
A tale of death threats, tarnished reputations and literary jealousy The streets near Scarborough’s Confederation Park curve and...
Food & Drink
Truck-off: why Calgary’s food truck program works and Toronto’s doesn’t
Somehow, inventive, high-quality food served out of a truck has become one of the hottest food trends across North America over...
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Saskatchewaners now earn more money than Ontarians (no, really)
First, Calgary’s street eats (think truffle-oiled French fries and lamb burgers) trumped Toronto’s. Now, average weekly wages...
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Rob Ford could deliver on a campaign promise by fixing Toronto’s broken 311 service
Apparently, Toronto’s 311 service is in a spot of trouble. Naturally, having staff on call to help Torontonians deal with broken...
Culture
Recipe to Riches Reviewed: Episode 5, The Smart Cookie
Last things first: at the end of this week’s episode (the sweet and savoury snacks challenge), the producers flashed a...
City News
Camera: Meeting Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi at the first annual Urban Futures lecture
September 20. Hard as it is for Torontonians to admit to envying anything Calgarian, this group of developers, architects and...
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Rob Ford marks the first anniversary of his election with news that he’s only the second-least popular mayor in the country
A new poll finds that Hazel McCallion , she of the conflict-of-interest fame, is Canada’s most popular mayor, while Rob Ford...
Real Estate News
A standard Toronto household can’t even afford a standard Toronto condo
A recently released report from RBC on the state of Canadian real estate has prompted the Toronto Star to direct homebuyers to...
City News
Calgary stands as proof that livable cities don’t necessarily need Ferris wheels
A city where commuting is essentially carefree and French fries with truffle oil can be purchased on the street might sound like...
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Calgary’s mayor on street eats: truffle fries (theirs) vs. hot dogs (ours)
Given Rob Ford’ s incessant and dour gravy train mantras, it helps to be reminded that some mayors actually enjoy the role of...
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Harper heralds end of Liberal era of Canadian politcs; Joe Comartin accuses him of having a one-night stand with Quebec
“Here we’ve got a guy who’s saying our honeymoon is going to be over quickly with the people of Quebec after he didn’t...
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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
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
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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
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
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
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