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New Bloor West Village shop Periwinkle taps into DIY trend
For years, Cindy Yong juggled a day job with producing her line of enamelled jewellery, called Cupcake, and selling it at weekend...
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Great Spaces: inside an art collector’s gallery-like Rosedale home
In the latest edition of Great Spaces, we visit the home of Elisa Nuyten and her husband, David Dime, an organic chemist. The...
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Thirty-four Toronto stores that didn’t make it through 2009
Last year was for Toronto store owners what recent seasons have been like for the Blue Jays: difficult to endure and full of...
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Sales roundup: Boxing Week discounts at Eleven, Over the Rainbow and Palazzetti
FASHION AND BEAUTY BEANSPROUT Starting on Boxing Day, this storewide sale includes between 50 and 70 per cent off kids' clothing...
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What’s the story with the tiger made of Christmas lights at Christie and Bloor?
A massive illuminated tiger doesn’t scream “deck the halls” quite like an inflatable Frosty or a nativity scene, but...
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Opening soon: The Drake Hotel General Store in Rosedale
The Drake Hotel launched its General Store in 2008, garnering oodles of media attention for its kitschy Canadiana. This...
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Sales roundup: Holt Renfrew pop-up shop, $35 off at Over the Rainbow, designer denim sample sale, Cuisinart warehouse sale
FASHION AND BEAUTY BURROUGHES HOLIDAY POP-UP The original Burroughes showroom is open for four days as a temporary designer shop...
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Crate and Barrel looking to open Toronto CB2 location
The rumours of U.S. decor retailer Crate and Barrel opening a CB2 store in Toronto began last Tuesday when Toronto realtor Andrew...
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Holiday shopping: over 40 gifts for the style obsessed
There's less than a month left for holiday shopping, but don't freak out. We've plucked 41 gifts—a rabbit fur hat, dainty...
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Sales roundup: Canadian designer sample sale, American Apparel rummage sale, One of a Kind Show
FASHION AND BEAUTY AMERICAN APPAREL Nothing is over $50 at this weekend rummage sale, where the clothes are up to 85 per cent...
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The twisted art of furniture designer Rob Southcott
In our Best of Fall package, we met with must-watch furniture designer Rob Southcott in his Liberty Village...
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Bottled up: a modern wine rack for under $25
Now that patio season has come to an abrupt end, LCBO gems are replacing local microbrews as Toronto's preferred tipple. For both...
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Just opened: Love the Design is the newest addition to gallery row
Up a long, narrow staircase, above the shoe store Chasse Gardée on Queen Street, sits a cozy new addition to the city’s gallery...
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Just Opened: Joey Don Mills
At first we were hesitant to write about yet another big box “casual fine dining” establishment with dark wood...
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After 32 years on Church Street, Bigliardi’s closes its doors
Ever since the news broke that George Bigliardi’s Steak and Seafood Restaurant is closing on September 26, the long-standing...
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Diners poisoned by human sewage, grapefruits are the new miracle weight-loss drug, Pusateri’s five fall pantry staples
• One of Toronto’s newest ethnic enclaves, Danforth’s Little Ethiopia, began with the crank of a slot machine. When Daniel...
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Just Opened: Swish by Han
It’s an old story: A restaurant has its opening put off again and again due to long waits for licences, construction work and...
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Decoding the real and imagined T.O. restaurants in Shinan Govani’s new novel
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12 lighting fixtures that will update a room faster than you can say “dimmer switch”
We love this reproduction pharmacy lamp from Crate and Barrel. Toronto antique hunters will know the hard-to-find originals can...
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Made in Toronto: 15 designs that do us proud
The city is so full of people creating exciting furniture, clothing, beauty products and accessories that the idea of buying local...
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Dream cottage: an off-the-grid Haliburton hideaway
Four years ago this summer, Joseph Franke, co-owner of Boomer , a menswear shop on Queen West, and Carlo Mirzian, a sales...
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Anthropologie now open in Yorkville
Downtowners have been waiting anxiously for Toronto's second Anthropologie to open, and so it did, very quietly, last Friday (the...
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The new Canadiana (with no maple leaf in sight)
The Drake General Store can barely keep its Hudson’s Bay blankets and Mountie-themed cocktail napkins in stock. And these...
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These chairs take the “country” out of French country
French country decor is all over the city's top design stores right now, but the antique pieces and reproductions are often stuffy...
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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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Sex worker and
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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
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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
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
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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