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The best holiday gifts that give back
Including vintage-inspired wine glasses, slouchy socks and a cozy fleece jacket
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The best gifts for culture aficionados
Including a ball cap for
Law and Order
diehards, a book by Keanu Reeves and the world’s smallest vinyl player
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10 perfect gifts for the foodie in your life
From tableware to cutting boards—we’ve got you covered
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Toronto’s best holiday food and drink gifts
Our favourite Toronto-made treats from pandemic-born businesses
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Toronto’s best holiday food and drink gifts 2020
A drop-dead-delicious roundup of the best goodies to give and get
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A kitsch-forward guide to tricking out your home for the holidays
Because stylish and sentimental don’t have to be mutually exclusive
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The incredible edible gift guide
Twenty-six of our favourite locally made treats
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Father’s Day Gift Guide: 24 ways to wow dad this June
While treating mom on her day can be as simple as a booking a spa trip or making a brunch reservation, Father's Day presents a...
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Mother’s Day Gift Guide: 27 pretty (and practical) presents that blow bouquets out of the water
Attention, kids: Mother's Day is May 10 (yes, that's next Sunday), and presenting the person who gave you life with a handmade...
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Mother’s Day Guide: 10 ways to treat your mom to a memorable day out
Your mom loves you, so she’ll no doubt coo over a standard Mother’s Day bouquet. However, you can really show the depth of...
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The Find: Toronto-made lingerie that you’ll still want to wear after Valentine’s Day
Although Valentine’s Day gift guides are usually chock full of lingerie, most women actually prefer to buy their own lacy bits...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Him: 6 gift ideas for guys, from light-hearted to titillating
Buying a Valentine’s Day present is hard. The gift needs to not only appeal to your guy, but also match the tone of your...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a creepy candle for Christmas non-purists
A skull can add an impressive air to any room (just ask med school instructors, Hamlet directors and Dutch still life painters...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: an outrageously high-end hookah
We doubt many people have ever dreamed of a owning a luxury shisha pipe. However, if you’re scrambling for a gift for the...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a shiny red pasta machine for Mario Batali wannabes
A pasta maker will give your favourite foodie the chance to airily declare, “I stopped buying pasta because homemade tastes so...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a pocket-size iPad keyboard that’s sure to make gadget junkies drool
If the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds at local Apple stores are any indication, lots of iPads will be under the Christmas tree this...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: monster friends for human kids
From her home in Dartmouth, N.S., Blythe Church sews these handmade monsters, which she says live in the back of closets and...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a playful illustration of Toronto in all its glory
Presents for the home can be tricky—you don’t want the recipient to feel obligated to display a gift that’s not to their...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a cheeky flask for a manly man
A personal supply of hooch can make anything from a freezing cold football game to a niece’s ballet recital a lot more...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: an iPhone dock that’s meant to be noticed
Bang and Olufsen, maker of distinctive-looking audio and video products, wouldn’t sell a run-of-the-mill dock. The BeoPlay A8...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a make-your-own animal kit for less than $10
Who knew a wine cork could so easily transform into a charmingly low-budget buffalo, bear, monkey, deer, bunny or crow? These...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Modernist Cuisine at Home, a cookbook for ambitious home chefs
Modernist Cuisine at Home is a spin-off of Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine, a $625 five-volume epic geared toward serious...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Herschel’s durable, primary-coloured backpacks
Herschel Supply Co. (named after the founders’ tiny Saskatchewan hometown ) makes ultra-tough backpacks with all kinds of useful...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 30 fantastic presents for homebodies everywhere
For friends and family just moving into a new place or on the lookout for their next apartment, it’s nice to pick out gifts that...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
Best New Restaurants
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling