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The Weekender: Samsara, TD Toronto Jazz Festival and six other events on our to do list
1. TD TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL Somehow, the organizers of this annual music fest always manage to book musicians that even non-jazz...
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Food & Drink
New co-op grocery store coming to Parkdale later this year
The West End Food Co-op — the folks behind the popular Sorauren Farmers’ Market —have partnered up with the Parkdale...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Onegin, Canada Blooms and six other events on our to-do list
1. CANADA BLOOMS Walking through the grounds of this huge flower-focused festival is like bypassing the last weekend of winter and...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Heart, Nature Unleashed and six other can’t-miss events
1. HEART Remember when rock star sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson sent John McCain’s campaign a cease-and-desist letter after he...
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Culture
Come Up to My Room preview: get a sneak peek of the Gladstone Hotel’s annual design show
We were lucky enough to get an advance look at some of the work being set up at the Gladstone Hotel for Come Up to My Room. Some...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Winterlicious, Barrymore and six other can’t-miss events
1. CONNECTING: TORONTO IS AN AWFUL CITY As part of the ROM’s regular Connecting series, Toronto Star urban affairs columnist...
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Good Stuff Cheap: 100 items under $10
We scoured this booty-filled city and scooped up its best deals Start the slideshow » (All images by Felix Wedgwood)
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Great Spaces: DIY domestic bliss
For one artistically inclined couple, a late-night foray into on-line dating led to DIY domestic bliss In November 2007, Chris...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Royal Winter Fair, Day of the Dead Festival and six other events on our to-do list
1. CAPTURE THE FLAG The suit-filled streets of the financial district get a Newmindspace make-over during this huge game of...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: nine things on our to-do list (yes, including Halloween events)
1. CINDERELLA: ROCK THE BALL The annual fundraising gala for the Canadian Opera Company, Operanation is always a place to see and...
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Culture
Jonathan Demme to host art exhibit at Gladstone Hotel during TIFF
The westward movement of TIFF action this year continues with Jonathan Demme' s prized collection of Haitian and Jamaican art on...
Real Estate News
House of the week: $5 million for an Eb Zeidler-designed Rosedale sanctuary
ADDRESS: 11 Beaumont Rd. NEIGHBOURHOOD: Rosedale-Moore Park AGENT: Elise S. Kalles, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage...
Food & Drink
Pride: a complete list of bars serving until 4 a.m.
Of all the fun associated with Pride—the parade, the wild outfits, the half-naked people littering the streets—call us...
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Details magazine takes on Toronto, barely leaves 501 streetcar
Details magazine has named Toronto a mecca of “modern-art galleries, high-concept restaurants and fashion-forward boutiques,”...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Grease, Buy Design’s spring social and six other things to do this weekend
1. FARM TO HOME FAIR 2010 This annual food fair is a locavore’s dream: meet and greets with farmers, info sessions on...
Food & Drink
Joe Pantalone swoops in to limit west-end nightlife—again
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Toronto’s would-be mayor Joe Pantalone is coming down hard on one of the city’s most...
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Toronto New Year’s Eve celebrations: a 10-part field guide
Choosing one New Year’s Eve event over hundreds of others can be daunting, especially when all the descriptions meld together...
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New book takes a bite out of Toronto
The Toronto food scene gets a ton of media coverage, but until recently there has been a dearth of books covering the city’s...
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Cuban festival turns Queen Street into Castro Street—sort of
This weekend, West Queen West goes Cubano with the second annual Havana Cultura Festival. There will be music, cigar rolling...
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Culture
Geoff Pevere talks to us about Toronto’s role in cinema history
“It’s kind of like living in the world’s biggest stand-in,” writes Toronto Star veteran film critic Geoff Pevere in his...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s espresso experts tell us of coffee’s second coming, what makes a good cup and why Starbucks isn’t all bad
The atmosphere may have been frothy at the Seventh Annual Regional Barista Championships at the Gladstone Hotel last Sunday, but...
Food & Drink
Rogue cheese makers, Toronto restaurant closures, how to be a coffee snob
• Canada’s cheese makers are concerned that as the popularity of aged cheese increases, the substandard work of amateur cheese...
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Why Toronto’s top chefs will be serving comfort food well into summer
Comfort food staples usually disappear from menus around this time of year, but the city's top toques are finding reason to serve...
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The sweetest thing: Where to get dessert late
Toronto sometimes seems short on late-night noshables, but some of the city’s restaurants serve dessert well into the wee...
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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
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
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
Deep Dives
A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
Deep Dives
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
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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For Sale: 25 North Drive
Leave the city in the city
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For Sale: 25 Strathgowan Crescent
This Grande Dame of Lawrence Park is an absolute treasure
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For Sale: 9 Audubon Court
Welcome to 9 Audubon Court, a Mid-Century Modern retreat among the treetops
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For Sale: 500 Wellington St W PH1001
Experience unparalleled luxury in this breathtaking 6,200 sq. ft. penthouse, designed to perfection including a private 2,000 sq. ft. rooftop terrace, complete with a raised glass pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, and unobstructed panoramic city views.