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Food & Drink
“We sold $17,000 worth of candy in one day”: A Q&A with the owner of Tastely Box, a Peterborough sweets shop with a cult following on TikTok
More than two million followers tune in for the freeze-dried candy experiments
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Food & Drink
“I can picture my stepdad toasting me with a loud ‘Skål!'": How one Toronto publicist started a side hustle selling Swedish candy
These are no Maynard's Swedish berries
Food & Drink
How this factory—Canada’s only candy cane producer—makes one million candy canes a day
See how the classic Christmas sweet is made, step by step
Food & Drink
A&W Pop-Tarts, pizza-flavoured cheese puffs and 14 other things at Sweet Addictions Candy Co. that you won’t find anywhere else
Ranked from “Yeah, I’d eat that,” to “What kind of monster made this?”
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Food & Drink
Four new spots in the city to get your sugar fix
Because all the Halloween candy's gone, but the cravings remain
City News
Rob Ford temporarily succumbs to debilitating Easter parade injury
Like all self-respecting reporters, members of the Toronto media generally consider Rob Ford ’ s health off-limits—unless...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: How to make some last-minute Halloween candy, molecular gastronomy–style
It’s 4:51 p.m. Do you have your Halloween candies in order? If not, perhaps the above video from the folks behind Modernist...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My sister wants my child to sport a Stephen Harper costume for Halloween
Dear Urban Diplomat, My sister made my toddler a Stephen Harper costume for Halloween (sweater vest, grey toupée, tiny...
Food & Drink
Sweet Relief: Anne Yarymowich’s maple-apple-caramel concoction
Anne Yarymowich’s maple-apple-caramel concoction takes the cake “At Frank, when we send a dish out from the kitchen, I want it...
Shopping
Get free stuff at Over the Rainbow’s 35th anniversary bash this weekend
To celebrate 35 years of upgrading Toronto's jean selection beyond acid-wash Levi's, Over the Rainbow is hosting a weekend...
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Food & Drink
Best of the City 2010: 14 picks for the top food in Toronto
Korean feast Owl of Minerva 700 Bloor St. W., 416-538-3030 The trendy Asian cuisine of the moment is at its most authentic when...
City News
Tobacco timeline: with candy cigarettes now banned, we look back at Canada’s anti-smoking history
Fruit-flavoured and candy cigarettes and cigars were pulled from shelves across Canada yesterday as part of the government’s...
Food & Drink
Five spots that are revolutionizing old-school milkshakes and ice cream floats
Nostalgia is big at Toronto's dairy bars and restaurants right now. Old-fashioned milkshakes and ice cream floats have been...
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Food & Drink
New trend: food tattoos
More and more, the Globe is spotting trends in the manner of children after shiny objects. To wit, the paper has turned its...
Food & Drink
Adventures in Candyland: seven astounding gingerbread houses
The Chicago Tribune recently asked four local architects to submit designs for gingerbread houses, then had pastry chef Kimberly...
Food & Drink
The meat-free Yorkshire pudding, Toronto’s gut-warming cocktails, Bonnie Stern’s favourite apps
• Going meatless at certain times of the year, like Christmas, might mean passing on foods like Yorkshire pudding cooked in beef...
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Michelle Obama on Iron Chef, Lea and Perrins recipe revealed, Canada’s cod comeback
• What is the best way to get rid of unwanted Halloween candy? Serious Eats recommends burying it in a shallow grave—a pie...
Food & Drink
L.A. is king of the delis, Quebec’s cheese war, Halloween candy buy-back program
• Some dentist offices in the U.S. are offering a Halloween candy buy-back program to encourage trick-or-treaters to take it...
Food & Drink
Top five candies for Halloween nostalgia, collagen-infused coffee, Obama sushi
• Obamamania has invaded the Far East. A Japanese chef has come up with Obama-inspired sushi, complete with benevolent...
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Viagra in energy drinks, Tim Hortons expands in NYC, man dies in chocolate vat
• A 29-year-old man died Wednesday after falling into a vat of chocolate at a New Jersey candy factory. Not the most dignified...
Food & Drink
Oh my goo-ness: Cadbury poised to egg downtown Toronto
It’s like an advent calendar gone horribly wrong: a giant Cadbury egg above Yonge-Dundas Square counts down to Easter by inching...
Food & Drink
Taxing chocolate, banning bottled water, reinstating trans fats
• Researchers at Brock University looked at the age of candy bars in eight major retail stores, and the findings weren't good:...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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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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