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Airport food guide, Tim Hortons’ big move, Tyra Banks eats from trucks
• Harried travellers are often at the mercy of the overpriced, under-flavoured food on offer in most airports. Well, Michael...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Sam James Coffee Bar
The caffeine crowd has kept the on-line forums busy over the past few weeks in anticipation of award-winning barista Sam James' s...
Food & Drink
Instant pleasure? Starbucks replaces actual java with the just-add-water variety
When Starbucks invited us to The Drake for a big announcement last week, we instantly started dreaming up the next designer...
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Julia Child revisited, dining with dogs, a new breakfast chain for Ontario
• Going out for a bite can be a problem if one’s puppy wants to come too. Writer Ivy Knight suggests that there are a few...
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Just Opened: Nadège Patisserie
Back in 2008, a for lease sign went up in the window of Trinity Bellwoods’ Art Photo Studio, making some West Queen Westers a...
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Toronto’s espresso experts tell us of coffee’s second coming, what makes a good cup and why Starbucks isn’t all bad
The atmosphere may have been frothy at the Seventh Annual Regional Barista Championships at the Gladstone Hotel last Sunday, but...
Food & Drink
Jolt of caffeine: 13 new independent cafés open in Toronto
While McDonald’s , Tim Hortons and Starbucks duke it out across North America in their giveaway coffee war, a new batch of...
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Frappuccinos may lead to cancer, North Korea’s black market fast food, local food returns to its roots
• Restaurants and bars might soon have to pay thousands more for the right to play music. The Neighbouring Rights Collective of...
Food & Drink
Rogue cheese makers, Toronto restaurant closures, how to be a coffee snob
• Canada’s cheese makers are concerned that as the popularity of aged cheese increases, the substandard work of amateur cheese...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Sweet Flour Bake Shop
Kim Gans, the owner of Sweet Flour Bake Shop, is not from around here. We don’t just mean that she’s from Cleveland (she...
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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
Follow the Tweeter: More Toronto chefs, bars and restaurants hop on the Twitter wagon
Chefs and restaurateurs across the city are heading into the Twitterverse in a big way. Since our last roundup of Toronto foodie...
Food & Drink
Tim Hortons takes Manhattan, critic vs. restaurateur, eels on the decline
• After Tim Hortons closed 11 underperforming stores in the U.S., we were skeptical about the company’s plan to open a...
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Where to eat during Pride 2009
The Gay Village is buzzing as it gets ready for Pride ’s climax this weekend. As any yearly attendee knows, Church Street’s...
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First look inside Mark McEwan’s gourmet grocery store
Chef Mark McEwan ( North 44° , Bymark ) gave us an exclusive tour of his eponymous grocery store at the Shops at Don Mills, just...
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Thuet opens one, closes another
Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich are adding a new outpost to their empire, just as they close the dining room at Atelier Thuet . The...
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Americans becoming “flexitarians,” Laura Secord vs. Tim Hortons, designer ice cubes
• There is a recession-era term that's possibly more annoying than "recessionista." Americans are turning into...
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Indie coffee shop cred questioned, inmates growing their own veggies, organic produce prices will continue to rise
• Toronto’s small coffee shops are opening second and sometimes third outposts in the city, raising questions about their...
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The $12 cup of coffee, the pizza vending machine and the cocaine-tainted cola
• In a few weeks, an Italian company will present its re-imagining of the vending machine. Rather than serving up coffee, chips...
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Free is the new black: Harvey’s and Timmies get into the giveaway game
As if Tim Hortons—arguably one of the most beloved commercial symbols of Canadiana—needs more press, the coffee giant is...
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The digital drinker: Natalie MacLean’s food-and-wine matcher is now available on phones
Foodie apps for iPhones and BlackBerrys are all the rage of late ( PC Magazine recently did a roundup of their favourites), and...
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Bacon booze, Maple Leaf relief and the beef with beef
• Recent studies have revealed that beef is the least environmentally friendly meat out there, while the opposite is true of...
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Get free stuff—it’s Earth Day
Today Starbucks is giving free coffee to customers who bring in their own travel mugs—not because McDonald’s is giving away...
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Free coffee from McDonald’s, Toronto restaurants stayin’ alive, Keith’s moves west
• High-end restaurants like Perigee have been hit by the humbled TSX, but many others are adapting to the new market and staying...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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Best Restaurants
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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
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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