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G20 update: police chief Bill Blair opens mouth, inserts foot
Earlier this week, Toronto’s chief of police Bill Blair was on CBC’s Metro Morning with Matt Galloway when he made an odd...
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City News
Wikileaks III: U.S. worried about how it looked in The Border, Little Mosque on the Prairie
The National Post has some more memos from the ongoing (and periodically hilarious) Wikileaks drop, only these ones don’t...
City News
National media totally excited that Canada might get mentioned on Wikileaks
Like all good Canadians, we can’t help but notice when Canada is mentioned in international media, whether it’s The Daily Show...
Culture
Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 10
Call us curmudgeons, but even in the realm of the supernatural, we here at the BEBSD appreciate rules of governance. (Like on...
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Culture
Battle of the Blades finals: the good, the bad and the snuggly
Hard to believe this year’s Battle is coming to an end. There have been high highs ( Georges Laraque' s devil costume), low lows...
Culture
The CBC thinks we’re fat
The CBC's winter TV lineup was announced late last week, and despite the departure of “give the people what they want even if...
Culture
Hockey Night in Canada is going 3-D
Whether you think 3-D is the future of cinema and television or abhor it as a gimmicky abomination, we're sure everyone can agree...
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Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 9
Based on last week’s comments , some of you aren’t so fond of Ivan and Dave, the two bearish owners of Goblins coffee shop who...
City News
Is Canada’s high-low culture war a figment of John Doyle’s imagination?
For the second day in a row, the Globe and Mail 's television columnist, John Doyle, is boldly claiming there is a culture war...
Culture
Peer pressure works! The Sentimentalist publisher makes deal to print more copies
Boutique Nova Scotia publisher Gaspereau Press has come to an agreement with Vancouver publisher Douglas and McIntyre to print...
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Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 8
This week, the student became the teacher, or rather, the teacher became the student, as BE dug deep into Dr. Tom’s totally...
City News
Revealed! Easy ways to get Jian Ghomeshi’s abs
Everyone knows that if you want to work in radio, you have to have a really great body. For all of you would-be hosts puzzling...
Culture
Battle of the Blades, Week 6: the good, the bad and the snuggly
The funniest thing about this week’s episode, by far, was the icy attitude that guest judge (and ’70s figure skating legend)...
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Culture
Red Green returns with self-help book
It was a sad day for suspendered do-it-yourselfers when television character Red Green hung up his roll of duct tape for the last...
Culture
Before he discovered drugs, Danny Boyle almost became a priest
But he didn't! The director went to a religious school and was going to pursue the priesthood, he divulged to George...
Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 6
TV time travel is great (see Lost , Quantum Leap , Doctor Who and episodes of Saved by the Bell when Zack would freeze time to...
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Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 4
This week, Erica learns a lesson about living in the present by reliving the same 2010 morning over and over and over again. She...
Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 3
In episode three, our favourite time traveller learns one of Gandhi's most valuable lessons: an eye for an eye makes the whole...
City News
Our schadenfreude-fuelled love affair with reality TV
There’s something to be said for watching perfect strangers (or, even better, pseudo-celebrities) make fools of themselves in...
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Food & Drink
Beet versus meat: five things we learned about eating habits from Jonathan Safran Foer and Anthony Bourdain
This week’s debate on what we should be putting in our mouths comes from two extremes of the discussion: Jonathan Safran...
City News
A tribute to Jackie Burroughs: the most memorable moments from her career
To anyone who grew up watching Road to Avonlea or had children during the show's seven-season run, the death of beloved actor...
Culture
The Being Erica BS detector: Season 3, Episode 1
CBC’s hugely popular Being Erica premiered its third season Tuesday night. The good news: 1) With Lost out of the picture, BE...
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Culture
Paul Giamatti Oscar buzz circulates over brunch
It was hard to tell who came for the networking, who came to hear Stomp the Yard director Robert Adetuyi , and who just came for...
Culture
The swag series: George Stroumboulopoulos’s celeb guests take ketchup chips and Clamato back to the U.S.
What it is: Guests of Strombo’ s new show, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, get their pick of some sweet swag in the Made in...
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Best New Restaurants
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
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Deep Dives
Save Me From My Screen: How smartphone addiction is ruining our lives
Despite the do-not-disturb settings, time-spent reminders and ritual purging of apps, we’re still hopelessly obsessed with our devices. Dispatches from the digital minimalist movement
Deep Dives
The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
Deep Dives
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
Deep Dives
A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
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
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
The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
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
Just Listed
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For Sale: 25 North Drive
Leave the city in the city
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For Sale: 25 Strathgowan Crescent
This Grande Dame of Lawrence Park is an absolute treasure
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For Sale: 9 Audubon Court
Welcome to 9 Audubon Court, a Mid-Century Modern retreat among the treetops
Just Listed
For Sale: 500 Wellington St W PH1001
Experience unparalleled luxury in this breathtaking 6,200 sq. ft. penthouse, designed to perfection including a private 2,000 sq. ft. rooftop terrace, complete with a raised glass pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, and unobstructed panoramic city views.
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For Sale: 1445 Islington Avenue
Welcome to 1445 Islington, a stunning property located in highly sought-after Edenbridge-Humber Valley