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Dangerous Dan’s gross new ads capitalize on pot, universal health care
Dangerous Dan’s , Queen Street East’s unmissable hamburger joint, has never been known for moderation. It’s no...
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Passing the bok bok bok: Etobicoke restaurant accidentally serves chicken head
This is one of those stories that wouldn't have made the news at Dundas and Spadina, but because it happened to a visitor from...
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A&W tries to go hip with new concept store
The North Vancouver–based A&W Canada chain—long synonymous with root beer, a dancing bear and burgers named after family...
City News
The city releases secret to cancelling parking tickets: pretty much any excuse works
After what sounds like years of conspiracies and cover-ups, drivers finally have a shot against the sneaky tactics of parking...
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“Worst beverage in America” available at Tim Hortons
Just as Canadians were congratulating themselves on their nation-wide health consciousness for rejecting the allure of the Double...
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Tim Hortons eyes China and India as part of world domination scheme
Tim Hortons is planning to expand its legacy (and its conspicuously poor grammar) to the rest of the world within the next four...
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Tim Hortons exempt from Kandahar fast-food ban
In a clamp down on fun at the Kandahar air field, a number of fast food joints that supposedly distract soldiers— Burger...
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The Toronto diet: inside Stanley Bernstein’s weight-loss empire
Stanley Bernstein has helped 450,000 patients lose a ton of fat by putting them on a merciless 850-calories-per-day diet and...
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Eat the Oscars: 10 Toronto dishes—one for every best picture nominee
Hosting an Oscars party is going to be tough this year. With 10 nominations for best picture, instead of the usual five, making...
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McDonald’s gives away coffee in promotion that has nothing to do with Timmie’s Roll Up the Rim
It’s that time of year again, when coffee aficionados ditch their independent coffee shops, and the streets are strewn with Tim...
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This Olympics, McDonald’s claims the word “burger,” forcing native pavilion to rewrite its menu
Olympic attendees stopping in at the Four Host First Nations pavilion in Vancouver this weekend should look for “sliders” or...
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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...
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Taco Bell founder dead at 86 (and seven other recent fast-food mogul deaths)
Taco Bell founder Glen Bell Jr. died on Sunday night at his home in Rancho Santa Fe at the age of 86, according to a press release...
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Best cookbooks of 2009, five tips for dining with kids, Paul Sorvino gets into the tomato sauce racket
• Lucy Waverman' s list of the top cookbooks of 2009 has (like the Junos) both Canadian and international winners. Canadian...
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Fifty tidbits about Nigella Lawson, predicting the food trends of 2010, Anthony Bourdain as a teenager
• Food Network Humour has published a series of photos of famous cooking show hosts in their salad days. Our favourites are...
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Cora Pizza reopens, Joanne Kates picks her top restaurants, the fooderati’s top Twitterers
• U of T students, rejoice: Cora Pizza reopened its doors last week. The restaurant, a long-standing refuge of drunken...
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Grizzly bear bolognese, David Gest cooks with Viagra, Wendy’s is not so big in Japan
• With the Olympics opening in mere weeks, the gaze of the world has been turning to all things Vancouver, including its food...
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Nine restaurant chains that haven’t made it in Toronto
Though critics often dismiss Toronto for never being able to stand alongside London, Tokyo or Paris (City TV likes to remind us by...
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Gordon Ramsay’s new face, the sudden deluge of boneless chicken wings, how garlic became more valuable than oil
• BrewDog, a Scottish brewery known for its highly alcoholic Tokyo beer (and for its barely alcoholic Nanny State beer, brewed...
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Five ethically dubious foods, taste-testing Toronto’s burger joints, presidentially pardoned turkeys end up at Disney World
• After the explosion in popularity of this video showing a still-live deep-fried carp being eaten, the Guardian compiled a list...
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Ruth Reichl praises Toronto, government-subsidized chocolate milk, the great seafood shim-sham
• The defunct Gourmet magazine was thinking of putting out a Toronto-themed issue, former editor Ruth Reichl says, following the...
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Whole Foods gets some competition, Rosie DiManno’s Halloween hijinks, rethinking turkey dinners
• New York challenges three chefs to create a Thanksgiving meal using such classic ingredients as turkey, brussels...
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Ho-Lee-Chow, ubiquitous purveyor of pseudo-Chinese food, closes its many doors
Ho-Lee-Chow —that omnipresent bastion of quick, North Americanized Chinese food—is going out of business after 20...
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One person’s junk food is another’s treasure
More and more, we’re feeling that the Internet holds the solution to every problem known to man—well, every inconsequential...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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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“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
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“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
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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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