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The Chase: One couple resists the lure of suburbia for a few more precious years downtown
The Buyers: Erica Smith, a 34-year-old real estate agent with Condo Chicks, and her fiancé, Marc Puddy, a 37-year-old insurance...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.6 million for an Annex condo with a one-of-a-kind view
ADDRESS : Unit 2002, 1 Bedford Rd . NEIGHBOURHOOD : The Annex AGENT : Vicky Tal and Meir Gluzberg, Harvey Kalles Real Estate...
City News
Gravy found? Why Toronto’s daycare for cars (i.e. the Toronto Parking Authority) should get the axe
In between some of the more outlandish proposals by KPMG that will never be seriously considered ( selling the Toronto Zoo...
City News
In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him
In the ’60s, McLuhan was hobnobbing with celebrities, advising politicians and forever changing how we think about mass media. A...
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Real Estate News
Kristyn Wong-Tam is pushing an ambitious revitalization plan for Yonge Street—but will it fly at Rob Ford’s city hall?
Yonge Street dollar stores, strip clubs and head shops be warned: an ambitious new plan for revamping Toronto’s main drag is...
City News
Bixi needs to grow—meaning more bikes and a larger service area—in order to survive
Ever since its inception in Toronto in early May, the Bixi bike-sharing rental program has been a hit, growing from 700 trips in...
City News
Rob Ford says he won’t be marching in this year’s Pride Parade—somehow, we’re not shocked
We’re curious to see how this one plays out in the polls: today, the mayor’s office announced that Rob Ford won’t be...
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Food & Drink
Tawfik Shehata’s The Bowery to join Colborne Street restaurant strip
We’re not convinced that a genteel little section of the St. Lawrence Market district will ever pass for The Bowery, the NYC art...
Real Estate News
Ontario continues not to care about how Toronto looks
One of the sleepiest of sleepy controversies in this city surrounds (almost literally) the legislature at Queen’s Park . The...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 25, Bike-riding pinkos have a sense of humour
Last December, when Don Cherry stepped up to the mike at Rob Ford’s mayoral investiture dressed in a signature...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $2.1 million for a Scarborough stunner overlooking Bluffers Park
ADDRESS : 27 Drake Crescent NEIGHBOURHOOD : Cliffcrest AGENT : Victoria Ann Ryczko, Coldwell Banker, R.M.R Real Estate, Brokerage...
City News
Toronto does a poor job of getting kids active, so (surprise, surprise) Toronto kids aren’t active
A new report from Get Active Toronto (guess what they’re all about) says that 93 per cent of local youth don’t get the minimum...
City News
The Jarvis bike lane brouhaha was such fractious fun last summer that city hall is bringing it back
Last year’s mayoral election was chock full of wacky issues—the 48-hour scandal over whether Rob Ford likes immigrants or not...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Obikà, Brookfield Place’s long-awaited mozzarella bar
If Toronto’s growing number of fromageries, pizza joints and restaurant cheese caves is any indication, the residents of this...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.2 million for a spacious penthouse in the city centre
ADDRESS : 35 Hayden Street , Penthouse 3202 NEIGHBOURHOOD : Church-Yonge Corridor AGENT : Eugene Palermo and Danielle Elise...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Nadège Patisserie. Queen West’s prettiest pastry shop joins the five thieves in Rosedale
Fourth-generation confectioner Nadège Nourian won over many Toronto palates when she opened her eponymous Queen West bakery and...
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City News
Doug Ford’s NFL plans just got (slightly) less crazy
We’ve been following Doug Ford ’s crusade to bring a professional football team to Toronto (sorry, Argos, you didn’t make...
Food & Drink
Flavour of the month: three new spots that change the game on sports bars
Sports bars in Toronto used to mean soggy nachos, face-painted guys named Big Mickey and eau de bleach mixed with stale...
City News
Bixi Toronto launches with limited service, missing keys, rain—and optimism!
Bixi finally launched in Toronto yesterday, with much fanfare among latte-sipping cyclists, who can pick up bikes at one of 50...
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Food & Drink
It’s official: Duggan’s Brewery has served its last pint
Not long ago, it seemed as though brew and gastropubs were on the rise in Toronto, but a couple of recent closures are giving us...
Real Estate News
Astral Media finally admits that its sidewalk rubbish bins are garbage
When the city started rolling out its new streetside garbage cans four years ago, we were taken with them in a “huh, that’s...
Food & Drink
Obikà, the first Canadian outpost of the Italian mozzarella bar, to open downtown in May
Obikà Mozzarella Bar , a new Italian restaurant opening at Brookfield Place in mid-May, is aiming squarely at a downtown lunch...
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Culture
North by Northeast announces more scheduled bands: Stars, The Pharcyde, Devo and many more
Awards season may be over, but the (soon to come) warm weather marks another cause for celebration: music festival season. Canada...
City News
Rob Ford asks council to vote itself out of the plan for garbage privatization
Rob Ford’s plan to privatize garbage collection everywhere west of Yonge Street contains one little detail that is driving his...
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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