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Mixed-up mixology: sip Mr. Big, Harry Goldenblatt and Steve Brady
Earlier this week, we reported on the Sex and the City– themed classes at Extreme Fitness, in which women work out in high...
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Food & Drink
LCBO bans Dan Aykroyd’s cool-looking vodka-filled skull
Former (and possibly future ) Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd has offered a drink to Ontario liquor stores, only to be turned down like an...
Food & Drink
Cinq 01 adds its own boozy weekend menu to College Street’s already crowded brunchscape
Fresh from bringing the party back to College Street, Cinq 01 is now stepping up to continue the area’s brunch tradition. The...
Food & Drink
LCBO prefers that only rich people abuse alcohol
When the HST comes into effect on July 1, dry cleaning and plumber calls will be more expensive, while books and diapers will cost...
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Food & Drink
10 a.m. drinking passes: city councillors officially become our enablers
Finally, change we can believe in. City council has officially rolled back the time at which people can start drinking by one hour...
Shopping
“Social sphere” helmets are designed to filter out bar noise
Denizens of Toronto’s notoriously loud bar scene (we're looking at you, Duggan' s) may find one-on-one verbal interaction a bit...
Food & Drink
City may allow soccer fans to drink at 10 a.m. during World Cup
City hall is considering letting bars serve alcohol an hour earlier this June, all thanks to time zones and soccer. World Cup...
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Food & Drink
The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
Food & Drink
Mixed marriages: nine excellent blended wines
White blends are red hot Before buying a bottle , we all want some idea of what it holds in store, and we often look to the grape...
Food & Drink
Fairmont Royal York fires 22 staffers alleged to have raided the hotel wine cellar
The Globe is reporting that the Royal York has sacked 22 employees, claiming that they were stealing wine from the hotel’s food...
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Food & Drink
Asking Labatt for a favour to save a Hamilton brewery
A western Canada brewer is hoping that an altruistic gesture by Labatt will help him set up shop in Hamilton’s defunct Lakeport...
Food & Drink
Drunken logic: new tax on Ontario wine meant to raise sales of Ontario wine
In its far-reaching attempts to promote fully local Ontario wine, as opposed to partially local blended plonk, the provincial...
Food & Drink
I will survive: Crews and Tango reopens tonight (finally)
It’s been a year since Crews and Tango, the Village main drag’s main drag bar, shuttered. Over that time, the neighbourhood...
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Next target in city’s war on fun: West Queen West
There was the moratorium on new restaurants on Ossington, the end of community pizza nights at Christie Pits and the brouhaha over...
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Beer binges barely alter test-taking ability
Pity the poor college students who, in the name of science, had to get wasted as part of a recent study to determine the effects...
Food & Drink
Warm weather calls for ghetto lattes
The Toronto Star is celebrating the arrival of spring with a short instructional video on how to make a ghetto latte. The process...
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Culture
Fucked Up’s April Fool’s Day prank inadvertently shows the perils of on-line reporting
The Twitterverse had a minor explosion last week when a story broke that Fucked Up was being sued by an energy drink company after...
Food & Drink
Lakeport leaves Hamilton, but is buck-a-beer under threat?
Former Lakeport CEO Teresa Cascioli won’t be getting much support from the 143 soon-to-be-jobless employees of the brewery if...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: What Are You Looking At, an east-end bar with a west-end vibe
Israel Sanchez and Stephan Poquet looked around Leslieville and saw a neighbourhood that has plenty of places to grab a drink, but...
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Safety in numbers: Are the world’s highest-scoring wines really that good?
A taste test of critics’ picks It has been three decades since a group of American critics introduced the 100-point scoring...
Culture
Chloe: the drinking game
Viewers expecting one of Atom Egoyan’ s signature what-exactly-is-going-on-here? art-house flicks may be slightly disappointed...
City News
Drunk bus driver: phone-wielding passengers embarrass the TTC (again)
Last Friday, passengers on a TTC bus called the police to complain that the woman behind the wheel was driving erratically. Turns...
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City News
Toronto is party central for pro athletes looking to dodge the limelight
Toronto is the place to party if you’re a professional athlete. According to the Wall Street Journal, the uptight banker’s...
Food & Drink
The Daily Dish loses a word, but nothing else
Today, torontolife.com launches the two latest additions to our roster of blogs: The Informer, dealing with the news of the...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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