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The casino debate turns to location, location, location (and Torontonians disagree with MGM’s choice)
Even though Toronto hasn’t agreed to host a casino—and may not even decide until 2014—the rampant speculation as to where it...
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Real Estate News
Five things we learned about selling a billion-dollar tower (specifically, Scotia Plaza) from Canadian Business
When Scotiabank announced in January that it would sell its red granite skyscraper, analysts speculated it would go for well over...
City News
Kristyn Wong-Tam wants to host a party for Rob Ford—during Pride Week
Since Rob Ford bucked tradition and relaxed at his cottage instead of making an appearance at the 2011 Pride parade, councillor...
City News
Downtown relief line could make everything better for everyone (except Rob Ford)
One of the byproducts of the recent transit debates at city hall (aside from the planned light rail lines) is a discussion of a...
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Food & Drink
Dining-happy condo dwellers push up lease rates for downtown restaurants
The condo boom in the city's dense downtown core—filled with young professionals with disposable incomes and no pesky kids to...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 8 Modus
Chef Bruce Woods made his name at Centro, that once-great standard-bearer for Italian cuisine in Toronto, before decamping to...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2012: No. 9 Volos
The slick Greek estiatorio on the northern edge of the Financial District bears no trace of the motherland’s economic...
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Real Estate News
The swanky new Trump Tower is already falling apart
Remember that fancy new 65-storey Trump International Hotel and Tower? It's already broken. Glass fell from the building onto the...
Real Estate News
People are actually buying condos snuggled up to the Gardiner Expressway
Further proof (as though we needed it) that Toronto is condo crazy: buyers are snapping up units in towers pressed right up...
City News
OLG pushes for a casino in the GTA, downtown councillors push right back
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation wants to open a big ol’ casino in the GTA, which it says will create jobs and spark...
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City News
Editor’s Letter (April 2012): The App of My Eye
The last couple of years have been fantastic for Toronto diners. The city has experienced an explosion of hole-in-the-wall...
Food & Drink
Japanese chain Santouka Ramen to open in Toronto this summer
Though the ramen trend has been booming elsewhere for years, Toronto still has only a handful of joints serving up the...
City News
Here’s what the Sun, the Star, the suburbs and downtown think about Rob Ford
It’s probably safe to say those “What people think I do” memes are nearing their expiration date ( so say the folks on...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Lunch Pick: the Granny Smith chicken caesar at Toronto’s newest pop-up, Come and Get It
It takes a special gift to transform a humble salad into a delicious pile of artery-clogging cream, crunchables and greens. Jon...
City News
The prospect of a new casino divides councillors along urban/suburban lines (what else is new?)
Meeting in their various community councils on Tuesday, Toronto city councillors discussed the possibility of opening a casino in...
City News
Scarborough MPPs politely decline trip on the Ford brothers train
While Rob and Doug Ford ramp up their campaign to save subways that don’t yet exist, some Scarborough Liberals aren’t having...
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City News
Almost Rich: an examination of the true cost of city living and why rich is never rich enough
An income of $196,000 places you in the country’s top one per cent of earners. But does it make you wealthy? The Western world...
Food & Drink
Introducing: DonDon Izakaya, downtown’s new spot for authentic Japanese bar food
When we first told you about DonDon Izakaya last summer, it was slated for an October opening, but as such things go, it wasn’t...
Food & Drink
Winterlicious 2012: Toronto Life’s picks for King West and the Financial District
The dining scene in and around the Financial District has seen a lot of changes since last year’s festival, with new restaurants...
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Style
Apparently, Markham and other Toronto suburbs are stealing downtown’s “mojo”
The Grid has some upsetting news for all the latte-sipping, bicycle-riding, downtown pinkos who are pining for more “urbanist”...
Food & Drink
Year in Review: 2011 was the year street food finally took off in Toronto
After living through decades of delicious but pretty much uniform street meat, followed by a city-backed pilot program that ended...
Food & Drink
Sam James to open up shop in the Path
In this season of giving, it’s only fitting that Toronto’s favourite coffee son, Sam James, would announce he’s taking pity...
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City News
Rob Granatstein: why the city should sell off its assets—slowly but surely
To close the budget gap, Rob Ford wants to sell city assets. Good idea, bad timing. Even a novice real estate investor knows to...
City News
Doug Ford thinks city hall plays favourites with the downtown core (it has more wading pools than the suburbs, after all)
Apparently, there’s a “suburbs/downtown rift” affecting Toronto—or at least Doug Ford says there is. What’s more, Dougie...
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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
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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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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