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Ten pick-your-own-flower destinations within driving distance of Toronto
The best farms for sustainable bouquets, Instagram-worthy sunflower fields and more
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Food & Drink
Prince Edward Bounty: a hedonist’s guide to eating and drinking in Ontario wine country
In Prince Edward County, $1.3 million buys a lot of real of estate—an entire 19th-century inn, to be precise. That’s how much...
City News
Jan Wong: how the rise of horticultural training at Toronto schools is bad for students
While we’re busy teaching our kids to tend school gardens, they’re failing provincial tests in reading, writing and math. The...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2011
This year’s crop of restaurants, from a million-dollar dining room to a brazen burger joint, pushed Toronto’s culinary culture...
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Introducing: Porchetta and Co., the new sandwich shop that’s turning Dundas West into a carnivore’s carnival
Like Ossington and Harbord before it, Dundas Street West keeps surprising us with new cafés, bars and restaurants. The latest is...
Food & Drink
Bio Picks: 10 top eco-wines
Eco-wines that taste so good your guests will never know they’re saving the planet I’m all for protecting the environment, but...
City News
Margaret Atwood calls plan to close prison farms “dumb as a stump”
Margaret Atwood scared us into improving our recycling habits with her novels about environmental apocalypse, but the CanLit queen...
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Food & Drink
Ignatieff supports local food, talks like Sarah Palin
Michael Ignatieff has announced that a Liberal government would implement a policy to provide support for farmers and to help...
Food & Drink
Mickey’s pushing mushrooms: Disney sells out to big veggie
Proving that children are an easily swayed mass of consumption, Disney is now shilling fresh vegetables and seeing major...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Ruby Watchco, Lynn Crawford’s much-anticipated restaurant
After years of manning other people’s kitchens (the Manhattan Four Seasons), reinventing other people’s restaurants (...
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Out of Africa and into Ontario: the story behind Canada’s first grower-direct imported coffee
Ashanti Coffee might not be a name recognized by many of Toronto’s coffee connoisseurs, but maybe it should be. The company...
Food & Drink
Coke buys off buskers, sky-bound sandwich shop, the truth behind sexy wine labels
• Would-be John Lennons will now be singing a different tune while being ignored by commuters on the London tube. Coca-Cola has...
Food & Drink
Frappuccinos may lead to cancer, North Korea’s black market fast food, local food returns to its roots
• Restaurants and bars might soon have to pay thousands more for the right to play music. The Neighbouring Rights Collective of...
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Farming 101: Five ways for Torontonians to experience country life
Shopping at farmers’ markets has a way of making agriculture seem like a peaceful and tasty career path. In the daydream version...
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Local cherries are here, but going fast
A rainy June delayed the season, but Ontario cherries are finally making their annual appearance in desserts across the...
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Jamie Kennedy sets the record straight on the Gardiner, the debts, and the Wine Bar sale
Last month, Jamie Kennedy called a press conference to talk about the transformation of his Gardiner restaurant from a fine dining...
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Dog food versus pâté, Ruth Reichl in Toronto, gardening madness
• Chowhounds don’t know from hound chow, according to a new study in which only three out of 18 volunteers were able to tell...
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Don’t miss the bus: A nomadic restaurant touches down in Toronto
Perhaps the most ambitious anti-restaurant yet, Californian chef Jim Denevan ’s travelling foodie troupe—dubbed Outstanding in...
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Toronto sewage is farm-bound, meat is stolen, Hillary Duff is pro-lunch
• Spurred by research supported by the American College of Chest Physicians regarding the health benefits of soup, chef Bonnie...
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The pre-heat is on: start the countdown to Gordon Ramsay’s Toronto restaurant
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Raw milk on trial, Loblaws infestation, a match made at Starfish
• The green "Pass" notices from Toronto Public Health are so ubiquitous, they barely even register anymore. But they certainly...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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
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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
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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