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Top Chef Canada season two contestants announced; here are your six Toronto chefs
With the sophomore season of Top Chef Canada set to premiere on March 12, Food Network Canada has finally introduced the 16 chefs...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches picked up for a second season of thoroughly branded competitive cooking
Your favourite competitive cooking show—no, not that one—is back for a second season, according to the folks at Food Network...
Food & Drink
TIFF Food on Film series pairs famous chefs with foodie movies
Food on Film, a new six-film series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, pairs culinary-themed films like Mostly Martha and Kings of Pastry...
Culture
New Canadian TV show You Gotta Eat Here! hops on the comfort food bandwagon
It looks like Food Network Canada is betting that comfort food, the culinary trend that refuses to die, has yet more staying power...
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Food & Drink
Year in Review: 2011 was the year street food finally took off in Toronto
After living through decades of delicious but pretty much uniform street meat, followed by a city-backed pilot program that ended...
Culture
Recipe to Riches: and the winner is...
The six remaining home cooks from across the country were all dressed in their Sunday best for the season finale of Recipe to...
Culture
Q&A with Lisa Ray, the new host of Top Chef Canada, on the joys and perils of eating for a living
Yesterday we told you that actress and former model Lisa Ray had been pegged to replace Thea Andrews as host of Top Chef Canada...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches Reviewed: Episode 5, The Smart Cookie
Last things first: at the end of this week’s episode (the sweet and savoury snacks challenge), the producers flashed a...
Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 4, Bannock Hazelnut Pie
This week’s episode of Recipe to Riches featured a show first that also happens to be a show last: a Toronto contestant. It also...
Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 3, Chicken Grenades
Once again on this week‘s Recipe to Riches, the show’s formula stayed pretty much the same. But for some reason, the whole...
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Food & Drink
Chuck Hughes anointed next big celeb chef by Grub Street, contemplating Toronto restaurant
Montreal chef and tattooed, all-around heartthrob Chuck Hughes could be the next primetime celeb chef, according to New York...
Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 2, Rock n’ Peach Bliss Cheesecake
Two episodes into the Food Network Canada’s new televised PC product development lab , it’s starting to sink in that things...
Culture
Recipe to Riches reviewed: Episode 1, Luscious Lemon Pudding Cakes
Last night was the premiere of Recipe to Riches, the much-hyped new Food Network Canada show where each week, a trio of home cooks...
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Culture
Recipe to Riches reveals judges (including Laura Calder) and contestants (including four from the GTA)
It seems there’s an insatiable appetite for competitive food shows (we certainly can’t get enough ). The latest offering is...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Café Belong, Brad Long’s new restaurant at the Brick Works
After almost half a year of delays, Brad Long ’ s Café Belong finally opened at the Evergreen Brick Works on Saturday...
Culture
We chat with the winner of Top Chef Canada season one
We caught up with the winner of season one of Top Chef Canada last night shortly after the show aired to get their impressions on...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 13: the winner takes it all
It’s been quite a ride. After 12 weeks of special guests, horsing around and glorious product placement, season one of Top Chef...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 12: family-styled
Season one of Top Chef Canada has been all about head judge Mark McEwan ’ s approach to cooking: luxurious ingredients, simply...
Food & Drink
Introducing: La Société, Bloor Street’s massive new bistro and people-watching hub
La Société , Charles Khabouth and Danny Soberano ’s new upscale bistro, opened last week to just the chic red-carpet reception...
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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 11: street meet
From the opening moments of last night’s Top Chef Canada , we learned the following: Dale MacKay , the supremely self-confident...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 10: puffed up
This week’s episode of Top Chef Canada began with Vancouver-based chef François Gagnon mourning the loss of recently eliminated...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 9: the prez
For any viewers who found the Milestones sponsorship in episode seven of Top Chef Canada unbearable, it's probably a good thing...
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Top Chef Canada: season two casting call
Although we’re only halfway through season one of Top Chef Canada, it looks like Food Network Canada has already decided to sign...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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