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The city has been forced to shut down its clever anti-littering ad campaign
Everyone has probably noticed these city-produced ads on transit shelters and buses. The mash-ups of different types of familiar...
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Incandescent light bulbs become a thing of the past, starting tomorrow
This has been a long time coming, but the day is finally here. On New Year's Day, it officially becomes illegal for manufacturers...
City News
David Miller lands a new high-profile job at WWF-Canada
Former mayor David Miller is taking over as president and CEO of WWF-Canada (that’s the World Wildlife Fund, not the wrestling...
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The Thing: a gorgeous bouquet that won’t give you environmental guilt
When everything from computers to pickup trucks is getting the eco treatment, it’s startling to think that the fresh-cuts at...
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Q&A: doc filmmaker Rob Stewart, of
Sharkwater
fame, on his plan to save the world
In Revolution , the globe-trotting, shirt-doffing filmmaker behind the save-the-fish documentary Sharkwater, turns his attention...
Style
H&M is giving vouchers for bags of old clothes
H&M’ s new garment recycling program starts tomorrow in all Canadian stores. Shoppers who bring in a bag of old clothes (from...
Food & Drink
Nuit Blanche 2012 guide: our top 20 picks for Toronto’s seventh annual all-night art crawl
This Saturday, September 29, hordes of art lovers, all-purpose revellers and the generally curious will take to downtown for the...
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Philip Preville: Shark fins, pet store puppies, plastic bags—why Toronto city councillors like to ban things
Rob Ford’s victories rarely last. In fact they only become more stunted as his mayoralty lurches along. For his opening salvo in...
City News
How a small group of farmers and wealthy weekenders made the Melancthon mega-quarry protest a cause célèbre
An unexpected casualty of Toronto’s building boom is the sleepy southern Ontario township of Melancthon, where an American hedge...
City News
Editor’s Letter (August 2012): digging up the dirt
Toronto has been growing at a ferocious rate for as long as I can remember. The Greater Toronto Area has six million inhabitants...
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Food & Drink
Do you eat ethically? This video doesn’t think so
Behind the Kitchen Door: What Every Diner Should Know About the People Who Feed Us, a new book by Saru Jayaraman that hits shelves...
City News
The idea of building more islands in Lake Ontario is still kicking around
Dirt: when you dig it up, it has to go somewhere. Aware of this inescapable truth, the city is still considering taking the 1.8...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 13, because there’s a national park in the middle of Scarborough
Stories of vanishing ecosystems and endangered species are such a grimly familiar refrain, it’s a spirit-lifting relief when...
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Rob Ford thinks the plastic bag fee did what it came to do and should now retire
Toronto has faced a “war on cars,” a “war on bikes” and a “war on children,” and now the “war on plastic bags” is...
City News
Michelle Berardinetti says the (sizable) bag tax proceeds should go to trees—not retailers
Toronto’s five-cent plastic bag tax could boost Toronto’s environmental cred in a new way: Councillor Michelle Berardinetti...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti and Mark Ferguson trade insults—over a community environment day
Giorgio Mammoliti has canceled his ward’s environment day tomorrow, and he says it’s CUPE Local 416’ s fault. The councillor...
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Confidence Man: how Glen Murray is positioning himself to grab the reins of political power
The famously gay former mayor of Winnipeg was lured to Toronto by a group of backroom nabobs and remade as an influential member...
Food & Drink
Demand for fancy cocktail ice spurs Chilean man to steal five tonnes’ worth—from a glacier
Seizing on a new and unique way to sucker people into paying exorbitant prices for water-based products, a man in Chile chipped...
City News
Can Rob Ford tell the difference between wasteful and regular-government-has-to-run-a-city spending?
The budget committee continued the city’s march toward reducing spending last week, approving a motion that will eliminate...
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Philip Preville: Why the city should start killing raccoons (kindly, of course)
Raccoons are everywhere, and at all times of the day. They’re a menace to private property and public health. It’s time we...
Food & Drink
Council to vote on shark fin ban today
City council is set to vote later today on whether to ban shark fin products in Toronto, an issue that came to our attention when...
City News
Greenbuild Conference and Expo makes its Canadian debut this week with Thomas Friedman, Maroon 5 and (for some reason) Kim Campbell
The International Greenbuild Conference and Expo is Toronto from October 4 to 7, marking the Canadian debut of the world’s...
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“We now have a plan,” says Rob Ford of the glorious waterfront vision (for which he doesn’t have a plan)
The conversation about Toronto’s Port Lands keeps going around and around, kind of like some mythic, not-yet-built Ferris...
City News
Doug Ford’s waterfront fantasy meets numbers and facts
The buzz-kills over at the Globe and Mail have thrown cold water all over Doug Ford’ s plans for the Port Lands. Chief among the...
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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
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
Almost
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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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
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