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Mamdani-style public grocery stores are coming to Toronto—eventually
City council wants to sell you bread
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City News
Could city-run grocers be the answer to Toronto’s high food costs?
One city councillor thinks so—and he’s taking a page from Zohran Mamdani
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
Food & Drink
“We’re a quiet army of disinfecters, spraying anything a customer might have touched”: What its like to be a grocery store worker right now
“It wouldn’t be worth it, getting sick from a minimum-wage job like this”
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Food & Drink
Inside the new 6,000-square-foot location of Summerhill Market, just steps from Bathurst Station
It’s the independent grocer’s third store
Food & Drink
Inside Longo’s new fully licensed, 32,000-square-foot Liberty Village location where you can drink while you shop
Now you can have a glass of wine while getting your groceries
Food & Drink
Inside Pronto Eats, Longo’s new cashless market in the Path
It's not your average Longo's location
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Food & Drink
Grocery game-changers: Toronto’s new supermarkets are bigger and better than ever
Inside Nations Experience, Seafood City and Farm Boy
Food & Drink
Inside Toronto’s first Farm Boy, Etobicoke’s new 20,000-square-foot supermarket
It’s now open at Brown’s Line and Evans Avenue
City News
Loblaw is buying Shoppers Drug Mart for $12.4 billion
Loblaw Companies announced this morning that it’s buying Shoppers Drug Mart, a high-stakes move that should help it compete with...
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Food & Drink
Loblaw profits fall 19 per cent
Despite making modest sales gains in its second quarter, Loblaw Cos. Ltd. saw its profits tumble by 19 per cent compared to the...
Food & Drink
Five things we learned about Toronto’s huge food processing industry from the Globe’s recent feature
While it might seem as though much of the food you ingest comes from a million miles away, a lot more of it is processed in...
Food & Drink
Loblaws: worth switching Kensington Market around for?
After years at 297 College St., the monks of the Zen Buddhist Temple are decamping to quieter (and presumably more...
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Food & Drink
Mario Batali predicts a Toronto location of Eataly within the next 10 years
In a recent interview with The Daily Meal, Mario Batali reignited simmering hopes that Eataly, the chain of grocery mega-emporia...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Alimento, King West’s bright new Italian fine food shop and cheesemaker
For over a year, the windows on the northwest corner of King and Brant have sported signs reading “Alimento Fine Food Emporium:...
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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Food & Drink
Could this be the location for a new upscale grocery store by Lynn Crawford?
Rumours have been swirling among Riverside dwellers and foodies alike that Lynn Crawford is preparing to jump into the boutique...
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
Want to know how much salt and fat there is in your food? Tough luck, thanks to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
While Canadians decide who they want leading the country, the bureaucracy in Ottawa is largely spinning its wheels until the next...
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The Foodist Market, a new organic grocer, takes over Pulp Kitchen’s space on Queen East
The Foodist Market , a new small grocery shop in Leslieville, has only been open for a few days, so it’s no surprise that many...
Real Estate News
Loblaws planning to do something with that cool-looking building at Lake Shore and Bathurst
Near the foot of Bathurst Street, just a hop away from the Porter ferry docks, lies the old Loblaw’s warehouse, which was built...
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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City News
Ban the bag: London MP wants Canada to be more like Toronto
Toronto introduced its five-cent bag fee more than a year ago, and people are still grumbling about it (most recently, Mel Lastman...
Food & Drink
New York Times’s Mark Bittman comes to Canada, is baffled by milk in a bag
New York Times writer and all-round foodie hotshot Mark Bittman came to Canada to sell his book last week, and the good folks at...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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’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
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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
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!”
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