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Part of the Honest Ed’s sign may be saved after all
David Mirvish says he'll salvage a little piece (actually, a huge piece) of Ed's legacy
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City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014
It’s been a big year in the corridors of power, with an infusion of ambitious new leaders in the city’s most influential...
City News
David Mirvish on the Edge
David Mirvish wants to dismantle his famous father’s empire to build two giant Frank Gehry towers and a gallery for his personal...
Real Estate News
City council gives its go-ahead to the Mirvish + Gehry towers
At a meeting yesterday, city council gave its expected approval to the Frank Gehry –designed tower complex proposed by theatre...
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Real Estate News
Frank Gehry’s skyscrapers will probably be built on King Street after all, but in slimmed-down form
Everyone involved has pointedly refused to call it a compromise, but that's pretty much what it is. Last night, David Mirvish...
City News
Year in Review: seven of Toronto’s biggest losers of 2013
During 2013, some of this city's leaders, sports stars and entertainers suffered setbacks on such an epic scale that their...
City News
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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Real Estate News
Quoted: David Mirvish can’t believe the city won’t embrace his Frank Gehry mega-development
— David Mirvish, on the unproductive, year-long negotiations with city planners over his proposed condo mega-project designed by...
Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: luxurious skybridges, doomed Toronto icons and ever-soaring house prices
The top stories in Toronto real estate this week: Honest Ed’ s is on the market; condo sales plummet; and Concord shows how the...
Real Estate News
Gaudy and much-loved discount store Honest Ed’s is up for sale
More than six decades after the late Ed Mirvish opened his iconic emporium at Bloor and Bathurst, his family is looking to sell...
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Real Estate News
Photo: the new design for the Mirvish-Gehry condo complex on King West
The second wave of plans are in for the hugely ambitious Frank Gehry -designed, David Mirvish -financed condo complex on the block...
Real Estate News
The Toronto Star’s old parking lot could soon house Canada’s two tallest condo towers
The plans for a large-scale development at 1 Yonge Street, currently home to a set of low-rise buildings and the Toronto Star’ s...
City News
50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
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City News
Editor’s Letter (December 2012): under the influence
David Mirvish’s plan to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre and build three 80-plus-storey Frank Gehry–designed condo...
City News
Reaction Roundup: Oxford’s $3-billion development proposal for Front Street (which includes a casino)
The city’s councillors and columnists are now debating the benefits and drawbacks of the second downtown mega-plan to be...
Real Estate News
A look at the best and worst of Frank Gehry’s past mega-projects
When David Mirvish and Frank Gehry announced their major King West redevelopment plans earlier this month, Mirvish said the pair...
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David Mirvish and Frank Gehry want to raze the Princess of Wales Theatre to build condos
Over the weekend, theatre tycoon David Mirvish unveiled a grand plan to knock down a section of the entertainment district that...
Culture
Mirvish Productions announces new “Off-Mirvish” series for smaller-scale productions
This morning, at a press conference at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Mirvish Productions announced a new series called...
Food & Drink
The Stop Night Market recap: the alley behind Honest Ed’s becomes a sweaty, delicious mess
Last Wednesday, the Stop decided to throw a summer solstice party in the alley behind Honest Ed’s—the by-day parking lot was...
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Who Worships Where: an agnostic assessment of Toronto’s most formidable flocks
Religious attendance might be in free fall across the city, but over the years a handful of Toronto congregations have managed to...
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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