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“We’re not trained actors—it was a big adjustment”: A Q&A with the charming family starring in the new docuseries
Bollywed
Their back-to-back episodes air Thursdays at 8 p.m. on CBC TV and stream for free on CBC Gem
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Style
The most adorable families at Field Trip
20 shots of extremely cool kids and their hip parents
City News
Moms on Top: the rise of power wives, house husbands and the new single-income family
Now that more women are high powered and high earning, their husbands are choosing to quit work and raise the kids. An inside look...
City News
Editor’s Letter (November 2013): Will stay-at-home dads feel as marginalized as stay-at-home moms once did?
Forty years ago, this magazine published provocative, trend-defining pieces about women entering the workforce. The stories...
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City News
Love and War in the House of McCain: inside the divorce that exposed the famous family’s deepest secrets
Two years ago, on a family vacation in Mustique, Christine McCain told her husband that she wanted out of their marriage. Michael...
City News
Memoir: when my husband and I defected from North Korea, we made the biggest sacrifice of all
I met my husband, Oh-jooyean, in 1996, while working in a market near my hometown of Yonan, North Korea. I was 22 years old; he...
City News
A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is...
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Life
My Cheating Heart: Lessons from my year on Ashley Madison
Everything you’re about to read is true. I’m withholding my name to protect my marriage, but the people, the places and the...
City News
Maple Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain must pay $175,000 to his ex-wife every month
The lesson from the latest, almost uncomfortably intimate details to emerge from the divorce proceedings of Maple Leaf Foods CEO...
City News
Memoir: when I moved away from my overprotective parents at age 17, I was primed for trouble
I grew up in sleepy, suburban Calgary. My parents are conservative, first-generation immigrants from...
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City News
Memoir: when my deadbeat dad had a stroke, I finally learned how to forgive him
In the spring of 2006, I sat in a padded metal chair and watched my 63-year-old father wake up from a Demerol sleep. He was lying...
Life
A Life Interrupted: Hassan Rasouli’s journey from an earache to a high-stakes battle over end-of-life decisions
Early in the summer of 2010, Hassan Rasouli, a 59-year-old engineer, had a problem with his right ear. He noticed sounds were...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My sister gave me opera tickets. Am I obligated to take her as my date?
Dear Urban Diplomat, For my 40th birthday, my sister bought me season’s tickets to the Canadian Opera Company—two seats in the...
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Today in Toronto: Free Flicks (The Karate Kid) and ROMwalk
Free Flicks: Rise of the Underdog All summer, Harbourfront hosts weekly free screenings of films celebrating the triumphs of...
Today in Toronto: Ashkenaz Festival
Ashkenaz Festival: The biennial celebration of traditional Jewish cultural staples lives on through the contemporary mediums of...
Today in Toronto: BuskerFest, Dead Can Dance and Jamelie Hassan
Buskerfest Performers from as far away as Spain and Japan tumble, juggle, ride and generally turn the entire St. Lawrence Market...
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Jan Wong: the simmering class war over basement apartments in Brampton
I once moved into an illegal basement apartment in Toronto for a newspaper series about working undercover as a maid. At $750 a...
City News
The Cult of Pastor Song: a religious sex scandal in Toronto’s Korean community
The sex scandal consuming Toronto’s Korean community began when six international students said they were repeatedly gang-raped...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Luminato, Woofstock and six other items on our to-do list
, woofstock.ca Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd., 416-696-1000, ontariosciencecentre.ca historic, renovated, original and...
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City News
TRCA kills Rob Ford’s dream of buying up parkland by his house to build a big fence
As expected, the executive committee of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has decided to follow its staff’s...
City News
Return of the Dads: one Scarborough father’s simple solution to his community’s most taboo problem
The most taboo question in Toronto’s Caribbean and African communities is why half of black fathers refuse to help raise their...
City News
The Conversation: authors Linden MacIntyre and Kyo Maclear on relationships, family and deception
The place: The Rooster Coffee House on Broadview | The people: authors Linden MacIntyre and Kyo Maclear | The subject:...
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Almost Rich: an examination of the true cost of city living and why rich is never rich enough
An income of $196,000 places you in the country’s top one per cent of earners. But does it make you wealthy? The Western world...
Real Estate News
The Chase: a couple finds an east end pad with room for a granny suite in the basement
The Buyers: Johnny Williams, a 36-year-old bail supervisor, and Christiann Holweck, a 33-year-old operations manager at...
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Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
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
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Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
Food & Drink
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