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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1 million for a mod-style maison just north of the Beach
ADDRESS : 248 Scarborough Road NEIGHBOURHOOD : East End–Danforth AGENT : Audrey Azad , Re/Max Hallmark Realty...
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Real Estate News
Danforth condo development sparks controversy—but this time the building’s height isn’t the problem (hint: there’s arson involved)
If you follow Toronto’s real estate beat, you’re probably familiar with the basic life cycle of condo development in the...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s top picks east of the DVP
Although Summerlicious is more generous to diners in the west, here are five of Toronto Life ’s east-of-the-DVP...
Real Estate News
The Chase: the search for a Danforth house with an extra suite to rent out—for under $500,000
She wanted to stay in her neighbourhood, but she had to share her front door to do it The Buyer: Jo-Anne McArthur, a 34-year-old...
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City News
TTC puts second entrance to Donlands station exactly where it wanted to in the first place
Those with long memories for somewhat obscure controversies might remember a little kerfuffle ensued when the TTC planned to add a...
Food & Drink
East-enders’ prayers are answered: Pizzeria Libretto to get second location this summer
This is the most exciting news we’ve heard all week: Max Rimaldi , Daniel Clarke and chef Rocco Agostino, the partners behind...
Food & Drink
Good Stuff Cheap: 11 selections for a kick-ass and low-cost charcuterie plate
House-made prosciutto ($3.69 per 100 g) from Masellis is sweet, buttery-soft, tender and rich, with a hint of porky barnyard—and...
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Food & Drink
The Best of Winterlicious 2011: Toronto Life’s 62 favourite restaurants
January is upon us, and for many hungry Torontonians, that means one thing: Winterlicious . The menus are less predictable than...
City News
Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
City News
Priority One: suicides on the subway tracks—how many, how often and how to stop them
In the first five months of this year, 17 people jumped into the path of oncoming subway trains. A scheme to outfit stations with...
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City News
Toronto’s six most memorable neighbourhood naming smackdowns
Toronto: city of neighbourhoods, multiculturalism and, to a lesser extent, bureaucracy. These three attributes collide most often...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Paul McCartney’s concert, the Rogers Cup and six other items on our to-do list
1. PAUL MCCARTNEY Paul McCartney's in town this weekend with his Up and Coming Tour. Far be it for us to question a rock and roll...
Shopping
Best of the City 2010: tailors, exterminators and 13 other top helpers
grill-Cleaning Service The BBQ Guys 1-877-781-2277 There are few summer chores more unpleasant than cleaning the...
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City News
TTC might actually avoid a PR debacle: senior couple gets reprieve
Tokens, mess and headaches: things the TTC has more than enough of. At the very least, the transit agency may have extricated...
City News
Risk Assessment: a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood guide to the safest places to buy real estate in Toronto
No neighbourhood will react the same way to a burst bubble. We talked to market watchers, economists, mortgage brokers and...
City News
Bubble Trouble
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Our recovery from the Great Recession happened faster than expected, we got in the mood to...
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City News
Jealous of police, TTC looks to regain people’s mistrust—by kicking families out of their homes
Having gone maybe a full week without annoying, aggravating or exasperating anyone in the city might be a record, but it's not...
City News
The List: Rocco Rossi
Ten things the Liberal strategist and mayoral candidate can’t live without 1. My favourite book I first read Man’s Search for...
City News
Welcome, G20 leaders! Now, spend some money here
The long-anticipated G20 summit has arrived in Toronto and has not been an unblemished joy for the people who live here. Between...
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City News
Licence to Print Money
Payday loan companies like Money Mart can now charge higher interest rates than ever before. Do they provide a valuable service to...
Food & Drink
The Danforth Guide: our 21 favourite spots along the east end’s main avenue
The east end’s main thoroughfare has long been known for two things: Greek food and the Taste of the Danforth. Over the past...
Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2010: the restaurants have been announced, so let’s pick them apart
First things first: there’s not much change under the Summerlicious sun. All of the old favourites are here (including Canoe and...
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Culture
Arcade Fire to play two last-minute shows in Toronto this weekend
Arcade Fire may be playing Olympic Island this summer, but Toronto fans should consider this weekend's impromptu shows on Friday...
Food & Drink
Get outside: Toronto’s 10 best patios
The patio season started early this year, which simply means there's more time to hit the city's best al fresco dining and...
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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
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
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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
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