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Toronto’s 14 new cafés: independent coffee shops continue citywide takeover
By our count, a whopping 22 new indie cafés opened in Toronto in 2009, but it looks like 2010 will be giving the java scene an...
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City News
Toronto Star can’t decide if city’s dismal Earth Hour showing is “bright” or “dark”
In a blow to empty-but-well-meaning symbolic gestures everywhere, Toronto’s involvement in Earth Hour last weekend saw a...
City News
City tempts either disaster or nirvana as it moves closer to 24 km of bike lanes along Bloor-Danforth
Despite apocalypse-heralding opponents, the city of Toronto is pushing forward with a controversial proposal to establish a...
Food & Drink
Chef survey lists the top 10 food trends of 2010
Health nuts and celiac sufferers, rejoice. A survey of chefs reveals that 2010 will be the year of simplicity, sustainability and...
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Food & Drink
Toronto group wants to tap trees to make maple syrup, City of Toronto not impressed
Maple syrup might be as iconic a Canadian food as Timbits, but the City of Toronto is discouraging residents from tapping, the...
Food & Drink
University of Toronto prof says buying local won’t save environment
More bad news for 100-mile dieters: a new study says that local-only eating is impractical and does little to help the...
Food & Drink
Something is a lot less fishy at Loblaws seafood counters
Loblaws put its green foot forward this week, with a pledge to sell only sustainable seafood by the end of 2013. This means that...
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Food & Drink
Supper club Charlie’s Burgers serves bug-centric menu in Toronto
The environment has long been a hot topic among foodies, and this weekend, surreptitious supper club Charlie’s Burgers is...
Food & Drink
Booze may have led to the founding of civilization, ranking the world’s weight woes, the 10 most common fast food ingredients
• Breaking news: Big Macs are unnatural. TLC’s Fun Facts section presents a list of the top 10 ingredients in fast...
Food & Drink
Toward a gourmet doughnut, remembering the old Annex, the perfect cup of tea
• Chefs across the U.S. are attempting to trick out Canada’s most modest treats: doughnuts. People can indulge in such...
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Style
Toronto sex shop and MP Carolyn Bennett fight for eco-friendly orgasms
“Let the warm waves of eco-friendly orgasms curl your toes.” That’s the greeting message on ecosex.ca, the on-line home of...
Food & Drink
Michelle Obama on Iron Chef, Lea and Perrins recipe revealed, Canada’s cod comeback
• What is the best way to get rid of unwanted Halloween candy? Serious Eats recommends burying it in a shallow grave—a pie...
Food & Drink
The marshmallow craze, the baffling DIY wine critic, the case for doggy bags
• “Bouquet of Nerds candy” good; “notes of Bazooka Joe gum” bad. So says the populist, DIY wine critic Gary Vaynerchuk...
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Cooped up: A woman is in hiding as she fights for Torontonians’ right to keep chickens in their backyard
A Toronto mom is in a cat-and-mouse game with bylaw officers who want to capture her illegally kept chickens and send them back to...
Food & Drink
Will the new green roof bylaw actually help the environment, or are politicians just trying to get the green vote?
David Miller’s green keenness has indeed been a driving force behind our city’s soon-to-be-instated bylaw, which will require...
Food & Drink
Camels as burgers, Jack Astor’s glory, McDonald’s goes green
• Baby camel burgers will join the ranks of Japanese whale sandwiches on a list of exotic food that drives PETA members...
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The city vs. Ossington, Michaëlle Jean takes heart, more kitchen nightmares for Ramsay
• Due to an increase in noise complaints from residents, the city has put a year-long moratorium on restaurant and bar licences...
Food & Drink
The $12 cup of coffee, the pizza vending machine and the cocaine-tainted cola
• In a few weeks, an Italian company will present its re-imagining of the vending machine. Rather than serving up coffee, chips...
Food & Drink
Cookies’ drug-like qualities, reusable bag study has holes, the “most secretive” organization in Canada
• The End of Overeating , a new book by former FDA commissioner David Kessler, claims that foods containing combinations of...
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Food & Drink
Critic’s criteria, Belgians champion “Veggie-Dags,” Chili’s comes to Canada
• Last Thursday marked the opening of Canada’s first Chili’s Grill and Bar (think generic family dining covered in Velveeta...
Food & Drink
Poisonous grocery bags, debunking orange juice myths, KFC’s latest quagmire
• They’re good for the environment, but reusable grocery bags might not be so great for personal health. have determined that...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s new street meat, Parkdale’s food co-op start-up, the popification of wine
• Toronto’s ethnic street food program officially launched yesterday, with the $32,000 carts dishing out portable food across...
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The not-so-secret garden: Toronto is poised to get its first community orchard
Toronto's first public orchard may be approved as soon as next week, if the city gives the pilot project a green thumbs-up. Susan...
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Bacon booze, Maple Leaf relief and the beef with beef
• Recent studies have revealed that beef is the least environmentally friendly meat out there, while the opposite is true of...
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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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