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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...
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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...
Food & Drink
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...
Food & Drink
Cronut Burger Backlash: bad reviews, trademark issues and gastrointestinal upset at the CNE
Glamour shots of the cronut-encased cheeseburger by Toronto’s Epic Burgers and Le Dolci Bakery sent the blogosphere into a tizzy...
Food & Drink
CNE Snacks 2013: we try bacon milkshakes, chocolate-covered franks and more at this year’s culinary freak show
We thought last year’s CNE fat-fest was bacon-centric, but this summer’s rendition reveals new levels of porcine depravity:...
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Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of August 16–18
In this edition of The Weekender, the CNE, free outdoor movies and three more things to do in Toronto this weekend. Canadian...
Food & Drink
Sideshow Snacks: cronut burgers, Nutella fries and bacon-covered everything at the CNE
The CNE food tent has devolved into a culinary freak show: a place where ordinary snacks—like ice cream cones and...
City News
High Rollers: we break down five different billion-dollar plans for a casino in downtown Toronto
City councillors could vote on whether to allow a downtown casino as soon as next month, and they, along with the rest of...
Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Public Enemy, Brazilian Day and six other events on our to-do list
1. ASHKENAZ FESTIVAL The Ashkenaz Festival is the largest international festival of Jewish music and culture in North America—so...
City News
Rob Ford does some dodgy math and cuts up his CNE tickets on camera
Over the weekend, the Toronto Sun posted a video of Rob Ford railing against the organizers of the CNE, who had the nerve to send...
Food & Drink
The CNE announces this year’s deep-fried and bacon-laden indulgences
Each year, we fear and anticipate in equal measure the arrival of whatever new deep-fried offerings and culinary innovations the...
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City News
Last night’s storm shut down the Ex, caused power outages—and produced some stunning photos
Despite a tornado warning for the area, last night’s storm only resulted in a few power outages, the early shutdown of the CNE...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Lil Wayne, Wild Blueberry Festival and five other items on our to-do list
1. CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION The Ex is back, which means wobbly rides, carnival games and plenty of midway food. Whatever your...
Food & Drink
Health-conscious Coca-Cola draws the line at deep-fried Coke, presumably for the children
Every year people pile into the food building at the CNE to taste whatever new deep-fried wonder is being served up (also: food on...
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Toronto’s design community prepares to sell their wares at this weekend’s Clothing Show
It always seems like at least one of our close friends has made the switch to eating local—fiddleheads from Fiesta Farms...
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Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
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
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