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The Real World: How Toronto is cashing in on the reality TV boom
Reality television is booming in Toronto; nearly 100 shows are made here every year—some of them drawing more viewers than (gasp) hockey. Call it an affront to good taste or appointment TV, it’s the future of Canadian entertainment
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Toronto Public Health takes a stand against Jenny McCarthy
Toronto’s public health department is all riled up over The View's decision to hire former Playmate and anti-vaccination...
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A giant Miami-style pool and bar is coming to Sound Academy
Charles Khabouth’ s latest venture may be his most outrageous yet. The Toronto nightclub and restaurant impresario is opening...
City News
Jesse Brown: How fame seekers finally figured out how to make a living on YouTube
Across the GTA, a new breed of entertainer is making a living and playing to audiences in the tens of millions. Welcome to the era...
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Today in Toronto: I on the Sky and Tear the Curtain!
I on the Sky Combining music, dance and acrobatics, I on the Sky tells the beautiful, wordless tale of a woman who is blown way...
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Spotlight: Jamie Travis, the director of the new R-rated comedy For A Good Time, Call...
Travis’s film about phone sex and friendship has people talking (dirty) Jamie Travis made his name with a handful of...
Today in Toronto: Lara Solnicki Jazz Band and No Great Mischief
Lara Solnicki Jazz Band Solnicki was on the road to becoming an opera singer when she decided to swerve into the world of...
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The Argument: Why people around the world line up to see The Clock, Christian Marclay’s cinematic mash-up
Earlier this year, on a trip to Ottawa, my husband and I spent the day at the National Gallery. While he explored the...
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Toronto is the “biggest opportunity in the world right now” for casino companies
The Toronto Star recently took a close look at the competition for the GTA casino, squeezing details out of insiders at MGM...
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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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Culture
The CEO of the Sony Centre wants to buy the venue and make it profitable
An intriguing proposal has emerged from the city’s attempt to save money by off-loading one of its three theatres. Dan...
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...
City News
Spotlight: Tanis Rideout’s debut novel is the season’s most buzzed-about book
Tanis Rideout has been in a kind of knock-wood daze since last fall, when her debut novel, Above All Things, sparked a bidding war...
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The List: 10 things Juno-winning jazz singer Sophie Milman can’t live without
1| My childhood toy I grew up in Russia when it was hard to get children’s toys. I had one plastic doll, a couple of blocks and...
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There’s a stripper poll on the City of Toronto website
City staff have posted an online “Adult Entertainment Parlour Regulation Survey” (yes, actually) that asks the public to weigh...
City News
Ubisoft announces its first-ever Toronto-made video game
Ubisoft announced at Microsoft’ s E3 news conference that Splinter Cell: Blacklist is the first title coming from its Toronto...
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Today in Toronto: Ron Sexsmith, Kim’s Convenience and more
Evgeny Kissin If anyone can breathe new life into Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, it’s the renowned Russian pianist with...
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MLSE’s Larry Tanenbaum joins the ranks of wannabe casino owners
The latest big-wig to dream about owning a colossal casino on Toronto’s waterfront is Larry Tanenbaum , billionaire and chair of...
Today in Toronto: Hot Docs, You Can’t Take It With You and more
A Florentine Tragedy and Gianni Schicchi A death-in-opera double bill. Composer Alexander Zemlinsky based his one-act tragedy on a...
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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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Casinos are exactly like state-subsidized “smoking palaces,” according to Marcus Gee
We thought Richard Florida’ s disdain for casinos was intense, but the Globe and Mail’ s Marcus Gee may have him...
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The trick to getting your way at city hall: always bring strippers
What a week of debauchery at city hall. First, Giorgio Mammoliti revived his idea for a red-light district on Toronto Island, and...
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Justin Bieber “punks” Taylor Swift in the return of, um, Punk’d
Looks like little Justin Bieber will get a chance to show off his pranking skills on an upcoming episode of the revamped...
Culture
Four Weddings Canada, episode 4: drunk husband-bride
What’s a husband-bride? It’s a husband who stands in as a contestant after his wife has come down with a bit of food...
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand