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Go now: Ossington’s Salt Wine Bar could soon be closed for licence infractions
Salt Wine Bar, a small, excellent new tapas place on Ossington Avenue, might not survive its first month in business, after a...
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Man dances his way through the Dufferin Mall No Frills
There is nothing like having a moment alone in an aisle at the grocery store to sing or dance along to whatever Carly Simon hit is...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Nature’s Emporium, a 50,000-square-foot organic grocery utopia
Just walking past the juice bar and the pesticide-free garden centre and into the almost ridiculously beautiful produce wing of...
Culture
Assigned movie seats, capsule hotels and 23 other ways to make Toronto cooler: Star
Inspired by Steve Martin' s joke (from, uh, two years ago) on 30 Rock that Toronto is like New York without all the stuff, the...
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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
Eataly coming to Toronto? Rumours swirl amid explained puns and subtle cultural insensitivity
Oscar Farinetti was in town this weekend, scouting possible locations and looking for a financial partner to help him open...
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Vancouver’s storied vegan cheese, Daiya, lands in Toronto
Toronto vegans have previously had to go to great lengths to obtain Daiya , the much-hyped vegan cheese revered by the non-meat...
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Walmart and Whole Foods go head-to-head in organic battle
Developing a hate-on for corporations and big-box retailers is a pastime of many, but it may be time for a paradigm shift. The...
Food & Drink
Toronto group wants to tap trees to make maple syrup, City of Toronto not impressed
Maple syrup might be as iconic a Canadian food as Timbits, but the City of Toronto is discouraging residents from tapping, the...
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Joe Fresh founder Joe Mimran gets a promotion at Loblaw
Club Monaco founder and Joe Fresh Style tycoon Joe Mimran has been appointed head of general merchandise at Loblaw, meaning he'll...
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University of Toronto prof says buying local won’t save environment
More bad news for 100-mile dieters: a new study says that local-only eating is impractical and does little to help the...
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Something is a lot less fishy at Loblaws seafood counters
Loblaws put its green foot forward this week, with a pledge to sell only sustainable seafood by the end of 2013. This means that...
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Waiters’ secrets revealed, the thieving of oysters, Loblaws to move into Maple Leaf Gardens
• After years of delays, a Loblaws supermarket is set to occupy part of the space inside Maple Leaf Gardens. The grocery giant...
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Picking the best butter, ice cream for dogs, robot chefs take over Asian kitchens
• Dogs are no longer left out in the cold when it comes to ice cream. A teenaged entrepreneur from New York City has...
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Q&A: three minutes with Naked Chef Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver will send foodophiles into full swoon this Sunday, when he appears Roy Thomson Hall to speak about his new...
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A seven-patty burger, DIY mushroom farming, grain- versus grass-fed beef
• When it comes to weird fast-food promotions, no one beats the Japanese. This time around, Burger King has teamed up with...
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Black carrots are the latest craze, Madonna hates cheese, Prohibition feud heats up
• Feuding continues at Queen Street East bar Prohibiton. Ex-manager Joey McGuirk published a letter from his lawyer on...
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Frank Bruni loves Toronto’s Asian food, Loblaws trumpets local produce, the Food Network is recession-proof
• The retired critic Frank Bruni told the Globe and Mail that his complicated history with food actually had an effect on the...
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Julia Child revisited, dining with dogs, a new breakfast chain for Ontario
• Going out for a bite can be a problem if one’s puppy wants to come too. Writer Ivy Knight suggests that there are a few...
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A fancy store recently charged me five cents for a paper shopping bag. Isn’t the new fee for plastic grocery bags only?
You’re half right. And you could be entitled to a refund. Under the city’s hotly debated bag bylaw, retailers of all...
Food & Drink
Supermarket heap: Gourmet grocers colonize the city
There has been a sudden influx of gourmet grocers and grab-and-go eateries in Toronto. Many have been—or will be—created by...
Food & Drink
Fruit follies at Pusateri’s, a hidden culinary haven, the dangers of baby food
• After the harrowing experience of watching her mother try to get a refund for rotten grapes at Pusateri’s , the National...
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Free chow mein frenzy, local food under threat and health inspectors walk the line
• As restaurateurs deal with permit headaches and piling up garbage, we hope they’re not too distracted to keep their kitchens...
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Go Longo: The 905 grocer opens a second downtown location
It's rare that the suburbs trump downtown on the food front, but for years the 905 has had one thing over the 416: a surplus of...
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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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