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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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...
City News
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...
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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...
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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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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
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Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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