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Russell Peters is suing his tax advisers over a $2.9-million tax bill
The comedian is seeking $6 million in damages
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City News
Toronto’s three lady elephants are moving to California in a month (for real this time)
Finally, after years of bickering and delays , Toronto’s prolonged pachyderm saga is drawing to a close. Shortly after...
Food & Drink
Another nostalgia-themed food truck takes to Toronto streets
First, Crossroads Diner, a food truck covered in painted images of 1950s American icons and serving kitschy diner food, popped up...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a delicious Californian red from an unexpected grape
Trentadue 2010 La Storia Petite Sirah $23.95 | Alexander Valley, California | Petite sirah is a black grape variety that has...
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Food & Drink
David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a serious California Zinfandel
Seghesio 2010 Sonoma Zinfandel $29.95 | Sonoma County, California | Californians like to think of fruity, rich zinfandel as their...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a cabernet lover’s cab from Jack London’s vineyard
Kenwood 2009 Jack London Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon $37.95 | Sonoma Valley, California | The French have a great term for certain...
Food & Drink
The New Guard: the best of the bunch from the LCBO’s fall release
Fashion is fickle, even in wine. There are occasional stampedes toward trendy brands: Argentina’s Fuzion and Australia’s...
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City News
Jesse Brown: Why local tech wizards are taking their big brains and bright ideas elsewhere
When a University of Waterloo grad used crowdfunding to raise $10 million for his smart watch company, the tech industry took...
City News
The Toronto Zoo’s elephants won’t fly until August (at the earliest)
For a moment, it looked as though the Toronto Zoo’ s three elephants would (at long last) fly out to the PAWS sanctuary in...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Easy Restaurant, the College Street outpost of the classic Parkdale breakfast joint
With the advent of brinner and the dizzying popularity of all things bacon, it’s not surprising that all-day breakfast joints...
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Food & Drink
Spirit of the West: David Lawrason picks nine bottles from California’s booming crop
Last year, for the first time in history, the United States consumed more wine than any other country (even out-tippling France...
Food & Drink
Turns out, some fish stocks are actually on the rebound
Most reports about ocean fish stocks tend to be pretty ominous, but at last there’s some good news about fish populations. The...
Style
Bob Barker and Giorgio Mammoliti face off in the Toronto Zoo elephant saga
The Price Is Right icon Bob Barker is riled up (but not this riled up, thank goodness) that Toronto Zoo management is delaying...
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Toronto Zoo loses its accreditation and Rob Ford loses his cool
We've been following the saga of the Toronto Zoo’s efforts to relocate its trio of elephant dames for months, but things just...
Style
Bob Barker offers $880,000 for Toronto elephants to fly private
The estimated cost to Bob Barker to charter a private plane and bring Toronto Zoo’s trio of elephants to a California sanctuary:...
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Toronto Zoo’s elephants could be guzzling Gatorade on their way to a hot tub party in Cali
With the Toronto Zoo’s three remaining elephants—the all-female trio of Toka, Iringa and Thika —ready to depart for a warmer...
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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...
Food & Drink
Nine West Coast wines that are flying off the shelves
California wine has always had a certain easygoing appeal, and the region’s big-ticket bottles have been a staple in...
City News
Bob Barker gets his wish: Toronto Zoo sends pachyderms packing
On Thursday, the board of directors of the Toronto Zoo voted to send three elephants south after former Price is Right host Bob...
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Bob Barker comes to town to remind us that Toronto is “too cold” for the elephants at its zoo
Former Price is Right host and noted animal rights activist Bob Barker has a new bevy of beauties on his mind: the elephants at...
City News
Paul Haggis speaks out against Scientology in massive New Yorker profile
Paul Haggis , the Ontarian writer-director of Million Dollar Baby and Crash (who we’ll always remember as the co-creator of...
Food & Drink
12 wines under $10: good, affordable wine is no longer an oxymoron
WHITE BIG HOUSE WHITE 2009 (California, U.S.) A sharply reduced price makes one of California’s most amusing whites—a...
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Schwarzenegger’s Toronto event leads to comparisons with Henry Kissinger and Rob Ford
Aside from the boilerplate nature of Arnold Schwarzenegger ’s speech last night in Toronto—it was filled with his usual...
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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