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The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
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How Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke brought the stodgy newspaper back to life
Michael Cooke, the Toronto Star’ s tabloid-minded editor, is on a mission to expose the corruption and crookedness of the...
City News
Conrad Black, Party Hopper: the baron’s packed social calendar and famous friends
It was an audacious move, swapping his Canadian citizenship for a British peerage. It didn’t go as planned. In London, he was...
City News
Conrad Black is hosting a new television show called Zoomer. We’re very excited
We knew Conrad Black had big plans for his release from prison. What we didn’t know is that they involved co-hosting a weekly...
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50 Most Influential 2012: the inaugural class of inductees into the Toronto power players hall of fame
For some, being powerful is a chronic condition. These are the long-lived titans who continue to influence the city with their...
City News
Digital Fortresses: A cheat sheet to Toronto papers’ online paywalls
The Toronto Sun, home of Sue-Ann Levy, sexy bikini shots and amusing slip-ups, is the latest Toronto daily to try to mitigate...
City News
Conrad Black’s best lines from his BBC interview with “a priggish, gullible British fool”
Whether he’s leveling his verbiage at Occupy protesters or hearkening for the good ol’ days of the Empire, Conrad Black always...
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Culture
TIFF Oscar Scorecard: what this year’s fest tells us about next year’s Academy Awards
It’s still far too early for Oscar pools, but now that the big TIFF movies have screened, it’s high time to get in on the...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: James Earl Jones joins Canuck stars for Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky
Though he spent the bulk of his career behind the scenes in movies, theatres and extravagant, Broadway-style productions, the life...
Culture
QUOTED: noted FDR expert Conrad Black delivers his opinion on Hyde Park on Hudson
–Former media mogul and rookie movie critic Conrad Black on Hyde Park on Hudson , in which Bill Murray plays FDR and which...
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Culture
TIFF PARTY: The annual George Christy luncheon attracted an impeccably turned-out crowd of stars and power brokers
It must be a precondition of being wealthy, famous or otherwise fabulous to look perfectly fresh the morning after a night on the...
Culture
TIFF PARTY: The annual Hello! Canada bash drew, appropriately, a swarm of Canadian celebs
Hello! magazine hosted its fourth annual TIFF party at the Ritz Carlton last night, drawing a crowd of mostly Canadian celebs. Our...
City News
A lot of immigration lawyers think the government helped Conrad Black with his residence permit
In June, it seemed the rumours that Conrad Black had high-ranking government help with his application for Canadian residency had...
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Conrad Black hints that he may be getting back into the newspaper biz
In an interview with Rachel Mendleson that ran on Huffington Post Canada yesterday, Conrad Black remarked that he sees investment...
City News
QUOTED: Conrad Black thinks some eye contact could help him keep his Order of Canada
Conrad Black, on why he deserves an oral hearing before an advisory council decides whether to revoke his Order of Canada because...
City News
Conrad Black (armed with lawyers, of course) fights to keep his Order of Canada
Post-incarceration, Conrad Black has turned his love of litigious matters into a hobby. The most recent fight for the...
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QUOTED: Conrad Black writes a love letter to colonialism
—Former newspaper tycoon, member of the British House of Lords, convicted felon and, apparently, colonialism super-fan Conrad...
City News
Conrad Black says Random House caused him $1.25 million worth of suffering
Conrad Black must love lawyers as much as Barbara Amiel loves her Hungarian kuvasz dogs. In the midst of working through a few...
City News
Conrad Black didn’t need high-powered friends to get him a residence permit
The rumour that someone in the immigration office helped Conrad Black’ s application for a temporary residence permit along has...
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Gallery: Conrad Black and Peter Mansbridge reunite at the National Business Book Award luncheon
Trust business types to figure out how to cram an entire awards gala into the length of a standard business lunch. Yesterday at...
City News
Barbara Amiel on Conrad Black’s flabby figure, terms of endearment and similarity to her dogs
Since getting out of jail, Conrad Black has rejected all media requests save a chat with CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge. Thank...
City News
Conrad Black opens up to Peter Mansbridge (on why he’s like a medieval leper)
Now that Conrad Black has been granted a one-year temporary residence permit and is back home in Toronto, he’s followed through...
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Conrad Black’s post-jail plans: chatting with Peter Mansbridge and shunning beer
Conrad Black is back in Toronto, and so far his plans sound pretty low-key for a baron. In an email to the Globe and Mail, Black...
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Conrad Black returns to Toronto (to a PDA from Barbara Amiel)
The man formerly known as prisoner no. 18330-424 (i.e. Conrad Black ) is back in Toronto—greeted at his Bridle Path home with an...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
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
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
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
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
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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling