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SPOTTED: Yorkdale’s “fashion truck” selling clothes at Front and Bay
Yorkdale Shopping Centre’s massive expansion will open on Friday, and it’s celebrating by parking a “fashion truck”...
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Eight portraits of the affluent, educated professionals flocking to Toronto from around the world
As the global economy fizzles, our city is being inundated with a new cohort of foreign professionals. They’re coming for the...
City News
The Celtic Invasion: why the arrival of hundreds of Irish construction workers benefits Toronto’s building boom
In the mid-1990s, companies such as Microsoft, Intel and Apple, attracted by Ireland’s well-educated workforce, tax...
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American discount heavyweight Marshalls opens its downtown store
Winners’ American sister store Marshalls finally opened its first downtown Toronto location yesterday (it was initally supposed...
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CBC reminds us that Toronto wasn’t always condo crazy
It can be difficult to imagine a Toronto skyline uncluttered by the recently finished Shangri-La or Concord’ s perpetually...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Michael’s on Simcoe, a new downtown steakhouse from the old manager of Harbour Sixty
This TIFF season was a busy one for the intersection of Adelaide and Simcoe, with the opening of the new Shangri-La Hotel and Soho...
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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Introducing: Richmond Station, the new downtown restaurant from Top Chef Canada champ Carl Heinrich
Carl Heinrich and Ryan Donovan announced their departure from Marben to start a “new project” back in February, well before...
Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: a rich and warming bowl of ramen at downtown’s Sansotei
This year marked the invasion of the alkaline noodles: Ramen restaurants have been popping up around downtown Toronto, and with...
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Topshop opens its massive shop-in-shop in The Bay flagship on Queen
Yesterday, Topshop cut the ribbon on its grand new home at The Bay’ s flagship at Yonge and Queen, a 19,000-square-foot...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.8 million for a Victorian home across from the Thompson Hotel
ADDRESS : 50 Stewart Street NEIGHBOURHOOD : Waterfront Communities-The Island AGENT : Craig William Emond, Model Suites Realty...
City News
We rate some of Adam Vaughan’s best zingers, in honour of his profile in the Toronto Star
Toronto newspapers can’t help but quote councillor Adam Vaughan with startling regularity, and a Toronto Star article last...
City News
Buyers beware: several schools near condo towers have no room for new students
Living in a condo building with kids can be tough: there’s less space for playtime, more insults from deputy mayor Doug Holyday...
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Crafty Americans are trying to woo corporate headquarters away from Toronto
Office space in Toronto is in high demand—and is therefore expensive—which means some companies may succumb to the pull of...
Real Estate News
Muammar Gaddafi’s son stops paying the condo fees on his Toronto penthouse
The condo board of the building at Spadina and Lake Shore where Saadi Gaddafi owns a penthouse has placed a lien against his...
City News
Las Vegas Sands joins the competition for Toronto’s (still hypothetical) casino
Despite the fact that city council is a very long way from approving a casino in the city (the first staff report on the idea...
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The Scotiabank marathon ditches the Gardiner in favour of hitting more downtown neighbourhoods
Toronto’s omnipresent anxiety about being a “world class city” has trickled all the way down to the route of the Scotiabank...
City News
Faulty towers: who’s to blame for condoland’s falling glass, leaky walls and multi-million-dollar lawsuits
Jan Gandhi and Omar Jabri share a love of big-city life: the people, the architecture, the fashion, the logarithmic bustle of...
City News
The Metro Toronto Convention Centre is the latest object of casino rumours
Ontario Place is off the list of probable sites for a GTA casino, but an even more central downtown waterfront location could now...
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Office tower gossip: another mega-building could be coming to the financial district
With Toronto’s commercial real estate market on a serious roll, there are whispers about another tower planned for the downtown...
Real Estate News
A two-acre lot at Yonge and Wellesley could house a new city park, or condo towers
A prized two-acre piece of provincial land at Yonge and Wellesley is up for sale and councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam is fighting hard...
City News
Editor’s Letter (July 2012): the good, the bad and the ugly sides of Toronto’s condo boom
Back in 2004, when I was in my late 20s, my husband and I bought a condo in Toronto for all the reasons young people typically buy...
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Food & Drink
Summerlicious 2012: our food editor picks the top 10 offerings from this year’s Licious list
Ten years in, Toronto’s loved (and loathed) bacchanalia of affordable dining is larger than ever, with 181 restaurants offering...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Rob Ford wants to know where to find street food vendors
— Rob Ford, asking Marianne Moroney, executive director of Toronto’s Street Food Vendors Association, why Etobicoke and...
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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
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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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“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