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Toronto area code stereotypes: a guide to the city’s shifting phone-based social hierarchy
Each area code in Toronto comes with its own set of stereotypes that—rightly or wrongly—circulate with remarkable...
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Tim Hudak does his best Rob Ford impression for the Toronto Board of Trade
Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak sounded eerily like his good buddy Rob Ford yesterday in a speech to the Toronto...
City News
Giorgio Mammoliti’s most memorable gaffes, including the one that could end his political career
Although Giorgio Mammoliti leapt from Rob Ford’ s lurching bandwagon in November, the two city hall fixtures still have a lot in...
City News
Karen Stintz wishes she hadn’t been so secretive about OneCity
OneCity may have launched a thousand op-eds and fired up Torontonians, but the ambitious transit plan is losing momentum after...
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The province doesn’t like OneCity (but Torontonians really, really do)
Now that OneCity, the mega-proposal that promises transit for all, has been ceremoniously unveiled, it turns out the province...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 11, because we get along
A couple of years ago, a proposal to build a mosque on a site not far from Ground Zero was met with months of protests and...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 13, because there’s a national park in the middle of Scarborough
Stories of vanishing ecosystems and endangered species are such a grimly familiar refrain, it’s a spirit-lifting relief when...
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Rouge Valley gets $144 million to become Canada’s first national park in a city
As the federal government promised nearly a year ago, a massive stretch of the Rouge Valley will become Canada’s first urban...
City News
Find out how far you’ll have to schlep to watch the Pan Am Games in Toronto
Since council freaked out over the rising price tag of the 2015 Pan Am Games—because mega sporting events usually come in under...
Real Estate News
Detached home sales soar as condos continue to take over the real estate market
While developers build ever more condominium towers across the city, the classic object of any potential homeowner’s...
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Style
Which Toronto neighbourhood has the most cheaters?
Ashleymadison.com, the “infidelity dating site” (and, it would seem, Centreville zoo fan ) has revealed that, in Toronto, the...
City News
Reaction Roundup: what the revival of Transit City could mean for Toronto (and Rob Ford)
The whole "war on cars" talking point feels so 2009 (and 2010… and 2011), but now that Metrolinx and city council have pushed...
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City council wonders whether to have a casino referendum now, later or never
Let’s hope the peace and love down at city hall continues today as councillors debate whether to put the question of a Toronto...
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Exclusive golf clubs are actually going to pay their taxes...soonish
Just in time for pseudo-summer, today’s Toronto Star returns to a strange tax situation involving nine exclusive country clubs...
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Four users on the GTA’s largest South Asian dating website—Shaadi.com—share the secrets of ethnically loaded matchmaking
For members of traditional South Asian communities, marriage—in Hindi and Urdu, shaadi —is the single most important event in...
City News
The last place to get a nice-sized home on a quiet, leafy street for less than $150,000 in the GTA—Twin Pines trailer park
On a bright morning in August , Judi Lloyd drove through Twin Pines with the air of a visiting dignitary. The preternaturally...
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How Israeli developer Gil Blutrich built his empire of vacation destinations for the yachting class in southern Ontario
Gil Blutrich believes in destiny. When he was a boy growing up in Ra’anana, a town north of Tel Aviv, he spent a lot of time...
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Five things we learned about credit mills (not including what a credit mill actually is), thanks to the Toronto Star
The investigative reporters at the Toronto Star have changed the way we think about a lot of things. They’ve made us wary of...
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Toronto is set to get a third area code, 416 holders set to get even smugger
The city is running out of phone numbers. Two decades ago, the GTA had to be split into the 416 and 905 area codes keep pace with...
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Board of Trade calls for road tolls; Doug Ford calls for a two-tier model for traffic congestion (uh, literally)
Another year, another group calling for provincial and municipal leaders to consider road tolls to cut down on congestion in the...
Culture
We take a quick look at some of the top Bollywood flicks up for hardware at the International Indian Film Academy Awards
There’s been no shortage of Bollywood -related events taking place around the GTA this week, but even amidst all the hype and...
City News
Dalton McGuinty is urging a refund if GO trains are delayed—provided commuters (read: voters) like the idea
Apparently, Dalton McGuinty is proposing to run the government like a pizza delivery van (at least, so says the Toronto Star) : 20...
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Cabinet shuffle: Toronto gets a seat in Harper’s new government—and it’s not even a token
Good news, Toronto: Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his new cabinet this morning and, for the first time since 2006, the...
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School librarians are an endangered species outside of Toronto—but should we care?
The number of librarians across Ontario is on the decline. According to a new study by People for Education , 80 per cent of the...
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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
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions