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Oscar-winning film successfully mimics walking through Dundas Square
One of our current obsessions is Logorama , the bright and brash winner last Sunday of the Oscar for best animated short film. The...
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Food & Drink
Best new restaurants 2010: James Chatto names five honourable mentions
Toronto Life 's annual ranking of the city's 10 best new restaurants is in our April issue, on newsstands now. Despite the...
Food & Drink
Bruce Willis’s shootout in Royal York kitchen is good for the city
Bruce Willis was in the downtown core on Tuesday, shooting a gunfight sequence for Red in the Royal York kitchen as vegetables...
Style
Joe Fresh founder Joe Mimran gets a promotion at Loblaw
Club Monaco founder and Joe Fresh Style tycoon Joe Mimran has been appointed head of general merchandise at Loblaw, meaning he'll...
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Food & Drink
Two more Whole Foods outlets are coming to Toronto
Organic über-market Whole Foods is continuing its march toward world domination by doubling its number of GTA stores. The Post...
Style
905 faces off against the 416 in fashion battle
They walk among us to learn our language and customs. They could even be in the next cubicle. They’re everywhere, and nothing...
Food & Drink
Some of Toronto’s best coffee is coming to Yonge and Bloor
The Junction’s Crema Coffee Company, one of Toronto’s best places to go for espresso, has long had one drawback: it’s off...
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Food & Drink
Peter Street Deli closes after 15 years in the entertainment district
Entertainment district institution Peter Street Deli has closed its doors after 15 years of operation, depriving clubland locals...
Food & Drink
Nine restaurant chains that haven’t made it in Toronto
Though critics often dismiss Toronto for never being able to stand alongside London, Tokyo or Paris (City TV likes to remind us by...
Style
Loblaw, Ryerson and Joe Fresh Style will move into Maple Leaf Gardens
Finally, some movement on the proposed deal between Ryerson University and Loblaw to rejuvenate Maple Leaf Gardens. Today the...
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Food & Drink
McEwan to open new Italian restaurant, still eyeing the downtown Travelodge for new supermarket location
The hugely successful McEwan supermarket at Shops at Don Mills is keeping Mark McEwan north of Bloor as he plans to open his...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Dolce Social Ballroom, condoland’s new dance club, goes after 30-somethings
Yet another dance club at King and Bathurst awaits downtown condo dwellers who made it to this side of the recession with some...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
In our latest installment of the Weekly Lunch Pick, we visit Matagali. The downtown favourite offers two affordable lunch...
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Food & Drink
Closing in on the sale of the Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar
The much-anticipated sale of the Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar, which has been in the works for several weeks, is slated to close...
Culture
Remington’s strip club hosts a somewhat befuddling TIFF party
The notorious men’s strip club Remington’s opened its doors last night to all kinds for a TIFF after-party of sorts. When we...
Culture
More from the party on the Bridle Path with Clooney, Bateman and a pack of goats
One of the most exclusive parties at TIFF was nowhere near downtown. Instead it was in a mansion on the Bridle Path known as The...
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Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week: Jules
This week’s pick is a $25 prix fixe deal that’s quite possibly the closest thing downtowners can get to a midday trip to...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch: Marc Thuet’s sandwiches come downtown
The latest addition to Marc Thuet’s empire brings a little heart—and a few heart-stopping sandwiches—to King and Yonge. Get...
Food & Drink
Weekly lunch pick: amazing ramen for under $10
This week's lunch pick brought us to a little-known Japanese noodle shrine that has recently relocated from Steeles and Yonge to...
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Shopping
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...
Food & Drink
Supermarket heap: Gourmet grocers colonize the city
There has been a sudden influx of gourmet grocers and grab-and-go eateries in Toronto. Many have been—or will be—created by...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
Every Monday, Toronto Life reveals its Weekly Lunch Pick. Today, we recommend an urban oasis that is right downtown, but tucked...
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Food & Drink
Go Longo: The 905 grocer opens a second downtown location
It's rare that the suburbs trump downtown on the food front, but for years the 905 has had one thing over the 416: a surplus of...
Style
Inside the semi-controversial downtown Leon’s, set to open in July
Donning construction helmets and fluorescent red vests, the media took a preview tour of the John Street Roundhouse yesterday as...
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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
Big Stories
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