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Nothing but the news
If any of you plan on being in Edmonton on June 12, come and join me for the first in a series of wine and food extravaganzas...
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Top Tuscans
Wine of the WeekGualdo del Ray 2003 Frederico Primo ($41.95, 92 points, www.vinvino.ca , 416-636-3534), Val di Cornia Suvereto...
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Chenin Comeback?
Wine of the Week Lammershoek 2006 Chenin Blanc, Swartland, South Africa ($21, 91 points, www.bokkewines.com )Lammershoek winemaker...
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Black and Browne and Read All Over
Those whom the gods would destroy they would first make into a sideshow in a sleazy British tabloid scandal involving a disgraced...
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Private Order Break Out
Wine of the Week Bodegas Terras Gauda 2006 O Rosel, Rias Baixas, Spain ($26, 91 points, www.thewinecoaches.com ) Gorgeous...
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The Wine Tasting Challenge
To Via Allegro on Monday for the awards lunch of The Wine Tasting Challenge. It’s an extraordinary competition, created by Via...
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The cheese stands alone
Saturday was a most exciting day for this cheese-eating peacemonkey, when I had the signal honour of being inducted into the...
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Tetra Paks: The Good, The Bad and The Gaudy
Wine of the Week Lizard Flat 2005 Chardonnay Verdleho *** Australia (20610, $13.15/1L) What I expect from a Tetra Pak—a...
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Chablis’ Comeback
Wine of the Week Pommier 2004 Côte De Lechet Chablis 1er Cru **** ($32.95, Vintages 23747) From a small domain run by the married...
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Suggestions from the Valentine Sommelier
Wines of the Week Miguel Torres of Spain offers both a red and white San Valentin. They are both gentle, well made, easy going...
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Wine of the Week & Michel Rolland in Toronto
Chateau Fontenil 2004 Fronsac **** Bordeaux, France ($49, Vintages 35907) This property near Libourne in Bordeaux’s right bank...
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Notes from Tawse Cellar
I spent a couple of hours on Friday at Tawse Family Estate in Niagara, tasting from barrels of 2006 whites and reds just beginning...
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The Holiday Contingency Case
Omigod—the wine! Two weeks of holiday dinners and drop-ins ahead, not to mention parties where you need to bring a bottle for...
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Best of November ‘06
In November I attended 16 events in Toronto, Ottawa and Kingston, tasting approximately 400 wines. It wasn't easy therefore for a...
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The Toronto Taste Challenge
It’s usually the Maple Leafs who put their reputations on the line at the Air Canada Centre, but Monday there was an event of...
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The Real Beaujolais
Did you have your glass of Beaujolais Nouveau this weekend? I know, it’s about as much fun as a flu shot. I have been in four...
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And A Big Time Was Had by All
If the chef at your favourite high end restaurant wasn’t on the premises last Saturday night it’s likely because he or she was...
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All That Jazz
Life always seems a little brighter when you hear of an honour being bestowed upon someone who truly deserves it. On October...
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Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is not a costume drama biopic. While it's based on sometime historian Antonia Fraser's...
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Tubers in the Moonlight
A peculiar week has yielded three very different but memorable meals. First, a dinner at Truffles , enjoyed on October 2. My wife...
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Best of September ‘06
Each month, watch for the top wines encountered in the previous four weeks. Not necessarily the best of the best, but 12 wines...
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Top 12 Wines of August ‘06
Watch this space the last Monday of every month, where I'll be providing a selection of 12 memorable wines encountered over the...
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Films from Herzog, Von Trotta and Hartley to drop
Last week, the Toronto International Film Festival started to roll out the big guns, announcing the names of 20 international...
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Black Gold and Scoop
I’m trepidatious about reviewing Nick and Marc Francis's Black Gold . When it comes to well-meaning docs that shed light on...
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Wines of the World
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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
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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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