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Revisiting Aqsa Parvez: Q&A with Mary Rogan
The author of “Girl, Interrupted”— Toronto Life ’s cover story about the life and death of Aqsa Parvez—discusses honour...
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Adulterous Rogers customers call public press conference, ask for privacy
Gabrielle Nagy, the woman who garnered publicity (and mockery) by suing Rogers for the breakup of her marriage , was on her 14th...
City News
Ron MacLean joins ranks of Facebook-based GG nominees
This summer, Canadians won't be able to swing a cat without hitting a potential nominee for governor general. With the departure...
City News
Today is Quit Facebook Day: nine steps to ease social networking withdrawal
For a pair of Torontonian Luddites and their followers, today is Quit Facebook Day—a day ironically memorialized by a page...
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City News
William Shatner won’t be our next governor general, but he totally should be
The Toronto Star devotes precious front-page inches to the kind of story that Canadians most yearn for: Will a Canadian-born...
Culture
Finally, more details about Toronto’s Jersey Shore
Since we initially wrote about a Toronto version of Jersey Shore coming to fruition, readers have offered fist-pumping enthusiasm...
City News
The GGGG: welcome to the Governor General Guessing Game
The Ottawa rumour mill is churning on one story these days: Prime Minister Stephen Harper' s apparent desire to replace Michaëlle...
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City News
Sexting for the public good
Toronto has become the first Canadian city to offer a texting service for teens and young adults in need of sexual health...
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...
City News
Rock bands cancel campaign gig when they find out it’s for Mammoliti
Mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti' s camp is scrambling to find a new lineup for next Wednesday’s Rock the Vote night at...
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Food & Drink
Buy a piece of Marben: the Wellington hot spot is closing for renos and auctioning off its furniture
Looks like the city’s restaurants are doing some major spring cleaning, with Brassaii , Centro and now Marben undergoing...
City News
Stephen Harper to interact with humans via machines
Stephen Harper, continuing his practice of bringing up the rear of the hip train driven by Barack Obama, has announced that he...
Food & Drink
Mayoral candidates host dinner discussions at Bistro 990 (sadly, not at the same time)
Over the next two months, the city’s mayoral hopefuls will each host a dinner and discussion at Bay and Wellesley’s swank...
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Food & Drink
World bitters shortage, the end of “foodie,” early bird specials as youth fad
• A hiatus at the Angostura Bitters plant in Trinidad has resulted in a paucity of the boozy drink ingredient at American...
Food & Drink
Midnight snack redefined as masked chef starts breaking into Toronto restaurants in the middle of the night
If there has been a bump in the night at Toronto restaurants lately, it wasn't a jolly old man bearing gifts. It’s the Night...
Food & Drink
Zelda’s decamps for Yonge Street (where it will surely re-camp)
Zelda’s —the Village resto-bar and perennial third-choice patio after Hair of the Dog and O’Grady’s —has moved from its...
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Food & Drink
Airlines get into cocktail making, tattooing food, foodies vs. “foodiots”
• In an effort to improve the labelling of food, the American Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing fruits and...
Food & Drink
The holy grail of ice cream, wagyu for $45 per pound, Farmville takes over Facebook
• Facebook trends continue to follow those in the real world: first, there was the restaurant craze (known as Restaurant City on...
Food & Drink
Black Death-plagued tomatoes in Ontario, run a restaurant on Facebook, Alain Ducasse loves leftovers
• The rainy summer hasn’t just sucked for cottagers—it’s been bad for tomatoes, too. Many plants in the province have...
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Food & Drink
Swoon-worthy chef Curtis Stone teaches us how to bump and grind
Hunky Take Home Chef host Curtis Stone heated up the kitchen at Dish Cooking Studio earlier this week with a demo of a few recipes...
Food & Drink
Name that Saloon: West Queen West gets a new bar by the Harbord Room boys
In a powerhouse collaboration to rival The Saint’s roster, the Harbord Room ’s owner (David Mitton, also of Czehoski ), chef...
Food & Drink
The digital drinker: Natalie MacLean’s food-and-wine matcher is now available on phones
Foodie apps for iPhones and BlackBerrys are all the rage of late ( PC Magazine recently did a roundup of their favourites), and...
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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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