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Junk food and cocaine pretty much the same thing: study
Science is perfecting the art of proving the patently obvious. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience recounts how lab rats...
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Food & Drink
Butter versus margarine: the debate rages on for some reason
The butter versus margarine debate played out in the Globe recently, as companies like Becel (the one Sarah Polley refuses to...
Food & Drink
Celebrating the Week of Eating In with the nine “grossest packaged foods ever”
Pork brains in milk gravy contain 1,170 per cent of an adult’s recommended daily intake of cholesterol (though the upchuck...
Food & Drink
Mariah Carey champagne, U.K. considers butter ban, Kraft and Cadbury to merge
• U.K. heart surgeon Shyam Kolvekar will be less popular at the nation’s morning fry-ups after his suggestion that butter...
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Jimmy Choo Uggs, Sarah Jessica Parker designs for Halston, Tony Blair to become fashion exec
• Jimmy Choo designer Tamara Mellon has joined the list of people who actually admit to owning Uggs ( André Leon Talley and...
Food & Drink
Coke-powered cellphones, nut-free airplanes, parsley’s great comeback, Beyoncé to live long
• As any student knows, Coke can provide enough energy to power one through an all-nighter. Nokia has figured this out, as...
Food & Drink
$135 beer, Rolling Stone to open nightclub, guilt-free carbohydrates
• The folks at Anheuser-Busch really had us going last summer with their “I like getting it in the can” ads. (They were...
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Style
GQ didn’t alter January Jones’s breasts, Karl Lagerfeld calls model critics “fat mummies,” Torontonian named top fashion blogger
• The Telegraph has published a roundup of the 20 best fashion blogs. Included are some unsurprising picks ( The Sartorialist...
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...
Food & Drink
A room of his own: Zane Caplansky moves his deli to old Jewish town
Zane Caplansky is bringing his celebrated “Toronto smoked meat”—part Schwartz’s , part Hogtown corned beef—to a brand...
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Chubby folks live longer, free lunch at Mandarin, booze hoarding at the LCBO
• The LCBO has reached a tentative deal with its union, but in the past few days restaurateurs and the public played it safe by...
Food & Drink
Cosmo gourmets, underground restaurants and a fully automatic restaurant
• Suddenly, eating like an astronaut isn’t all protein shakes, Styrofoam ice cream and recycled urine. Visitors to the...
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
Canadians take home James Beard Awards
Three Canadians earned top prizes this week at the James Beard Foundation Awards, which recognize the stars of the eating and...
Food & Drink
Taxing chocolate, banning bottled water, reinstating trans fats
• Researchers at Brock University looked at the age of candy bars in eight major retail stores, and the findings weren't good:...
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TV’s boozing imperative, comparing obesity and smoking, fatty meal fetishes
• Food porn Web site thisiswhyyourefat.com is pioneering a new generation of gastronomic infatuation. The site features such...
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Missing restaurateur, Obama’s new brew, a Winterlicious countermeasure
• Police are searching for George Koutroubis, co-owner of Restaurant Makeover -ed Six Steps Restaurant and Lounge , who was last...
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Gordon Ramsay’s unfavourable reviews, eating on $50 a week, coffee addictions justified
• Perhaps we shouldn’t be so anxious for Gordon Ramsay to open his new Toronto spot: the critics are bashing the foul-mouthed...
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The dark side of Winterlicious, salmonella scare, recession menus on the rise
• Winterlicious is a godsend for penny-pinchers and generally unadventurous restaurant-goers, but the two-week event can be...
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Why does the Idomo guy have such a long beard?
Why does the Idomo guy have such a long beard?—Alana Shin, Port Credit People sometimes think it’s because he’s a ZZ Top...
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I’ve been hearing a rumour that there are cougars living in Scarborough’s Rouge River Valley
I’ve been hearing a rumour that there are cougars living in Scarborough’s Rouge River Valley. Should I be...
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Is it illegal to ride a bike when you’re drunk?
Dear Urban Decoder: Is it illegal to ride a bike when you’re drunk?— Araminta Mitchell, North York Believe it or not, it’s...
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Streetcars often have a lot of sand on the floor behind the driver
Dear Urban Decoder: Streetcars often have a lot of sand on the floor behind the driver. What gives?— Connie...
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At the corner of Queen and Pape, there’s an independent gas station called Stohos that advertises “biodiesel”
At the corner of Queen and Pape, there’s an independent gas station called Stohos that advertises “biodiesel.” What is...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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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