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Food & Drink
“One woman emptied her cart and drove straight here”: This Toronto grocer sells some items for 50 per cent less than Loblaws
Angela Donnelly, the co-owner of Leslieville’s Raise the Root, recently started posting price comparisons on Instagram
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“Some full-timers are using food banks”: A Metro employee breaks down why GTA grocery workers are prepared to strike
After 25 years as a produce clerk, Tammy Laporte’s wages have fallen woefully behind the rate of inflation. Now, she can’t afford to shop at her own workplace
Food & Drink
“We’re addressing two problems at once: food waste and the rising cost of food”: A Q&A with the founder of Odd Bunch, a new subscription service for imperfect produce
The online grocer offers misshapen produce at a discount
Food & Drink
Inside the new 33,000-square-foot Farm Boy at Front and Bathurst
Take a tour of Farm Boy's second store in the downtown core
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Food & Drink
A look inside Forest Hill’s fancy new 7,200-square-foot Summerhill Market store
And the Drake's Ted Corrado is the market's new executive chef
Food & Drink
Inside Market 63, downtown’s new 20,000-square-foot supermarket with its own restaurant and poutine bar
It's the new one-stop gourmet-grocery shop at One York
Food & Drink
Grocery game-changers: Toronto’s new supermarkets are bigger and better than ever
Inside Nations Experience, Seafood City and Farm Boy
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Food & Drink
Inside Nations Experience, a 155,000-square-foot supermarket with an arcade, a playground and all-day dim sum
Now that's "foodertainment"!
Food & Drink
Those organic groceries you’re splurging on? They could be covered in pesticides
Bad news for anyone who thinks eating organic means they’re not ingesting weedkillers and other potentially toxic...
City News
Grocery gift cards for storm victims have gone from feel-good story to political liability
The provincial government’s grocery gift cards for ice-storm victims should have been a feel-good story. Government and private...
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Food & Drink
UPDATE: Where to get free grocery-store gift cards for those who lost food during the ice storm
Here’s some news you can use if you were without power for several days and the inside of your fridge looks like an abandoned...
Food & Drink
Re-Introducing: Loblaws on St. Clair West, which now has a sushi bar, a dedicated cupcake wall and a dry-aged beef locker
Name: Loblaws Contact Info: 396 St. Clair Ave. W., loblaws.ca, @loblawsON Neighbourhood: Casa Loma Owner: Loblaws Companies...
Food & Drink
Superb news for 2014: groceries will probably cost less
Next year may be a thrifty one for Canadian shoppers. The 2014 Food Price Index, an annual report from a team of economic...
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Food & Drink
Karma Co-Op may be forced to close by June
The Annex’s 40-year-old Karma Co-Op will likely close its doors this June unless it can procure at least 100 new members and...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s Top Delivery: nine first-rate provisioners of groceries, sweets and booze
(Images: Booze photographs by Carlo Mendoza)
City News
Almost Rich: an examination of the true cost of city living and why rich is never rich enough
An income of $196,000 places you in the country’s top one per cent of earners. But does it make you wealthy? The Western world...
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The unaffordable city: how did Toronto get so !@#$%&* expensive—and is it worth it?
Middle-class life isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to a heated real estate market, a strong dollar, new taxes and stagnating...
Food & Drink
Gourmet grocery store wants customers to buy shares, save business
It appears that the warm, fuzzy sentiments that usually come with supporting locavorism aren’t enough to ensure that...
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The List: 10 things model Stacey McKenzie can’t live without
Ten things Stacey McKenzie, Toronto’s kookiest fashion model and runway coach, can’t live without Gold bangles I grew up in...
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Loblaw vs. Shoppers Drug Mart: the grocer is opening more pharmacies
Back in February, Shoppers Drug Mart announced that it would expand its food offerings. Now, in an attempt to shake Shoppers'...
Food & Drink
The Roncesvalles Guide: Our 25 favourite eating and shopping destinations along Parkdale’s Polish drag
Referred to as Little Poland by long-time residents and Roncey by the younger crowd, the Roncesvalles strip is one of the few...
Food & Drink
Fresh and Wild jumps on the “convenience food” bandwagon
As we reported a few months ago, the trend in food shopping is toward streamlined shops that offer prepared food for busy...
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Toward a gourmet doughnut, remembering the old Annex, the perfect cup of tea
• Chefs across the U.S. are attempting to trick out Canada’s most modest treats: doughnuts. People can indulge in such...
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Sasha Chapman on the return of the TV dinner
The chatter started months before Mark McEwan opened the doors to his gourmet groceteria last June. The choice of location, which...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
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
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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
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