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Food & Drink
The weirdest and most wonderful things to eat and drink at the CNE this year
Don’t skip the cheese curds dedicated to Taylor Swift
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Food & Drink
Cheeseburger ice cream, four-pound tacos, deep-fried pizza and everything else there is to eat at the CNE this year
Broken down into three categories: weird, wonderful and
what?!
Food & Drink
All the wacky new things to eat and drink at the CNE this year, ranked
Including mac-and-cheese lemonade, condiment ice cream and edible slime
Food & Drink
The zaniest, most over-the-top and (in some cases) actually delicious food at this year’s CNE
Ranked from “not entirely disgusting” to “not today, Satan.”
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Food & Drink
This summer’s can’t-miss food and drink festivals
Brunch Fest, Sweetery, Waterfront Night Market, and a bunch more festivals where you can stuff your faces
Culture
The CNE’s soaring air show, Fan Expo and six other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of August 28
Life
Eight amazing cinemagraphs of the CNE
Stephen Knifton's dazzling moving pictures of the Ex
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Life
CNE carnies talk about the craziest things they’ve seen on the job
"I tried out a hotdog that had mac and cheese on it"
Life
Here’s what the CNE looked like over the past century
A midway freak show, a motorcycle race and 10 other fascinating photos of the Ex over the past century
Food & Drink
15 of the craziest cholesterol-charged creations at the CNE this year
Including spaghetti balls, liquid-nitrogen ice cream and a strawberry cheesesteak
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Culture
The Ex, a dockside movie screening and seven other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of August 14
City News
I pulled a
Top Gun
and took a test flight with a CNE air show jet team
And I may have vomited a little
Food & Drink
We asked these perfectly sane-looking Torontonians to explain their absurd CNE food choices
We're just trying to understand why.
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Culture
Leonard Nimoy’s photography, a wooden Enterprise and four more pieces from the CNE’s
Star Trek
art show
Art, the final frontier
Style
Street Style: The CNE
Playful, carnival-appropriate looks from the fairground
Culture
SuperDogs, Elvis Stojko’s icy extravaganza and six other must-see shows at the CNE
Eight amazing things to do between trips to the Food Building
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Culture
The Ex, a Shawn Mendes show and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of August 15
Food & Drink
A baker’s dozen of deep-fried and downright dirty dishes at the Canadian National Exhibition
Part freak show, part thrill ride, the CNE's over-the-top food offerings test the boundaries of what can be deep fried, served on...
Culture
Scream for One Direction, gorge on fried food at the CNE and eight other things to do this week
Watch Ghostbusters from the prow of your yacht Walk down any Toronto block this summer and you’re bound to bump into a free...
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Food & Drink
Why are you eating that? (and other questions that came up inside the CNE food pavilion)
Snacking at the CNE requires a sense of adventure and a stomach of steel. The food seems to get weirder every summer, with vendors...
City News
How do you build a roller coaster at the CNE?
The CNE opens its gates today, inaugurating an end-of-summer tradition. Amid all the colours, lights and deep-fried stunt...
Food & Drink
The CNE releases its 2014 stunt-food lineup
In a matter of days, thousands of Toronto digestive tracts will be forced to do business with all kinds of weird and potentially...
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Cronut Burger Wrap-Up: six ridiculous facts to take away from the public health fiasco
The Cronut Burger probe came to a surprising close yesterday when Toronto Public Health officials fingered the beef-stuffed...
Food & Drink
Quoted: Mayor Rob Ford on the gastronomically suspect Cronut Burger
–Even Mayor Rob Ford, not a man known for his vast reserves of self-control, turned down the Maple Bacon Cronut Burger at the...
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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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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