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Totally Recalled: still more dried basil (including some from Kensington Market shops)
The products: unbranded basil from Toronto Cash and Carry (100 g) at 1405 Gerald St., House of Spice (50 g, 100 g, 200 g) at 190...
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Totally Recalled: even more dried basil, packaged and in bulk
The product: Cedar Phoenicia sweet basil (30 g); Arsam Spices, Ambrosia Natural Foods and Bruno’s Fine Foods basil (all sold in...
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Totally Recalled: more dried basil with suspected salmonella contamination
The product: Valli basil flakes (15 g) The UPC: 7 78768 14324 5 Lot code: sold since February 23, 2012 The details: Another brand...
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Totally Recalled: various dried basil products, for home and professional use
The product: Spice Kingdom Basil—Egyptian, 30M, whole, fancy (sold in bulk 25 kg bags); All Seasons basil rubbed (in 2.27 kg...
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Totally Recalled: Earth Greens boxed salads from Sobeys
The product: Earth Greens brand Organic Italian Blend salad (sold in a 198 gram plastic clamshell package) The UPC: 8 18431 00107...
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Totally Recalled: vacuum-packed smoked salmon at McEwan
The product: North 44-brand smoked salmon and Kristapsons smoked salmon, sold at the McEwan grocery store in North York. Best...
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Totally Recalled: Prepared subs potentially contaminated with listeria
The product: Super Loaded Subs by Deli Chef The UPC: 0 56040 37452 6 Best Before date: May 18 Establishment number: 318 The...
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Totally Recalled: ground beef that’s contaminated with salmonella (not the E. coli of yestermonth)
The product: Intercity Packers Ltd. Beef Burger Meat Mix 80/20 The UPC: 90066172180172 Lot code: 046 Establishment number: 503 The...
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Totally Recalled: Another day, another E. coli warning
The products: Ground Beef—Fresh (9.07 kg package) and Country Fried Style Breaded Beef Steak Chopped and Formed (3.90 kg...
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Totally Recalled: over 135 burger products, all potentially contaminated with E. coli
The product: Just about every other brand of store-bought burger this side of the 49th parallel (OK, not quite—the extensive...
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Totally Recalled: more potentially contaminated burgers, this time sold, ahem, as Best Value
The product: Best Value–brand 10 Beef Burgers and 20 Beef Burgers The UPCs: 0 71212 88103 8 and 0 71212 88104 5, respectively...
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Totally Recalled: No Name beef that could be brimming with E. coli
The product: No Name Club Pack Beef Steakettes and No Name Beef Burgers The UPC: 0 60383 01321 9 and 0 60383 37333 7, respectively...
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QUOTED: Galen Weston on just what he thinks of the competition
—Loblaw executive chairman Galen Weston at the Canadian Food Summit, reflecting on the importance of food inspections (to be...
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Want to know how much salt and fat there is in your food? Tough luck, thanks to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
While Canadians decide who they want leading the country, the bureaucracy in Ottawa is largely spinning its wheels until the next...
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Cracking down: authorities trace ungraded eggs that showed up in six Scarborough food shops
Over the weekend, the Star reported that at least six Scarborough food stores, along with a few in York Region, have been charged...
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Warning: President’s Choice cookies may contain shrapnel
Loblaws is recalling some of its President's Choice Decadent Chocolate Chunk Cookies after someone came to the unfortunate...
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Potentially salmonella-tinged spices latest thing to make lunch terrifying
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is issuing yet another recall. This time, it’s spices that may contain salmonella. Here’s...
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That EVOO may have lost its extra virginity
The Post reports that as demand for olive oil grows around the world, producers are mixing different kinds of cheap oil and...
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Listeria hysteria—and this time, the origins of the illness are unknown
The Globe is reporting that the five recent listeria deaths in the province aren’t related to the Siena deli meat...
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Gordon Ramsay’s humility, protesting a Harbord bistro, new organics standards
• Canada’s new organic foods standards went into effect this week. Produce that gets stamped with the new “Canada Organic”...
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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...
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Zagat on Wendy’s, Jamie Kennedy changes gear, street food forgotten
• The venerable Zagat guides, known for passing judgment on higher-end offerings, are now ranking fast food joints on the...
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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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CFIA cutbacks, menstrual meals, and more listeria hysteria
It’s irony at its finest. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is accused of cutting back on spending in order to save for an...
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand