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VIDEO: The Beer Store’s new PSA-style commercial warns about the dangers of corner-store booze sales
With pro-privatization sentiment at an all-time high in Ontario, The Beer Store may be feeling a bit threatened. That could...
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QUOTED: a market analyst on the LCBO’s questionable investment in its own supermarket-booze plan
— Kevin Grier, a market analyst at the George Morris Centre in Guelph, speaking to the Star about the suspiciously intense list...
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Smaller grocers decry province’s LCBO Express proposal
Yesterday , Ontario finance minister Charles Sousa announced a pilot program that would have ten LCBO Express kiosks installed...
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LCBO kiosks may be coming to Toronto grocery stores
Here’s half-measure number two in the Liberal government’s multi-part strategy to placate Ontarians calling for corner-store...
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This Toronto guy started a petition to bring more Canadian beer to Jays games
It’s easy to vilify The Beer Store. It’s big, rich and ugly, and then there’s the whole government-sanctioned-foreign-cartel...
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A low-key dive bar and veggie café opens on the Queen West strip
Situated smack in the middle of one of Toronto’s most self-consciously cool bar zones, Lipstick and Dynamite— the name is an...
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What beers best represent Canada? Here’s what the PM chose
In the midst of all the Sochi hockey madness, our PM challenged American pres Barack Obama to a friendly gentlemen’s wager: a...
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Ten refreshing spring beers hitting LCBO shelves this month
Despite what the weather forecast may suggest, spring is indeed coming. For those who need proof, the LCBO recently went public...
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From Riesling to Pinot Noir, here are five can’t-miss new wines from Australia
In the ’80s, Australia’s vintners created a wildly popular, new style of red wine with their plush, chest-warming shirazes...
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Should Toronto have a 4 a.m. last call? These people certainly think so
The term "world-class city" gets thrown around a lot these days—especially in Toronto, which seems haunted by it—but it tends...
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Six places in Toronto to watch the men’s gold-medal Olympic hockey game on Sunday
Things are looking good for Toronto sports fans: Canada made the men’s hockey final, the city okayed early-morning bar...
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The foreign brewers who own The Beer Store may be price-gouging Ontario bar and restaurant owners
his would be strange, but not necessarily fishy, if the markups were consistent across beer brands, but they’re not. With few...
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This new Toronto shop sells craft beer swag and home-brewing gear
Toronto’s newest boutique is geared toward a very specific clientele—namely, the type that can ID any pint of beer down the...
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UPDATED: Beer will cost more if sold outside The Beer Store, says The Beer Store
The Beer Store wants you to know that allowing alcohol sales in corner stores would basically be the worst idea in the world. At...
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Shiraz-mataz: the LCBO’s best five syrahs under $20
The wine most likely to make you forget it’s February Syrah, a.k.a. shiraz, is my winter wine—a seductive red with fiery...
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Rosedale residents get a new, upscale juice boutique
Greenhouse Juice Co. might be the most adorable way to detox in Toronto. The quaint white cottage on Macpherson Avenue offers...
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Coming soon to King West: the world’s biggest “permanent ice lounge”
It takes balls to open a frigid winter fortress in Toronto just as the city is finally beginning to thaw. That’s not stopping...
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Introducing: Snakes and Lagers, Little Italy’s new craft beer hall and board-gaming café
Name: Snakes and Lagers Board Game Bar Neighbourhood: Little Italy Contact Info: 488 College St., snakesandlagers.com Owner: Aaron...
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Flavour of the Month: nine of the city’s best mocktails
A fresh batch of clever mocktails to quench the thirsts of detoxers and designated drivers The Sailor’s Delight at Drake One...
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A new craft brewery and beer store is coming to Leslieville
Food & Drink
Save $1000 on champagne (or $5 on box wine) at the LCBO’s month-long clearance sale
In a province where most alcohol sales are controlled by a government-run cartel, the words “booze” and “bargain” don’t...
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Bottoms Up: booze professionals that will bring the party to you
If you fancy yourself a mixmaster but lack the basic equipment, Kristen Voisey of the Queen West cocktail culture shop BYOB will...
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Snakes and Lattes owners launch Snakes and Lagers, a board-gaming bar on College
Snakes and Lattes , the Annex board-game café, is opening a new spin-off that adds the one lubricating ingredient that could turn...
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Six inspired vodka infusions to help you create cocktails like a pro mixologist
Aja Sax, bartender at the new Dufferin Grove gastropub The Huntsman, on how to custom-flavour your vodka—and what to do with it...
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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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